An hour after second coat of Feather Finish
Writing some notes to my future self so I remember these tricks. Tools/materials used: caulk Henry 549 Feather Finish $18 1 gal bucket – I found this was the smallest size that was still convenient for holding my tools water trowel or drywall knife, whichever is biggest margin trowel old plastic takeout container to use…
Read More How to level a wood floorI frequently harp about how important it is that maintainers of your code need to get context quickly to be productive and happy. I just thought of an analogy. Remember in the Jason Bourne movies, Jason gets in a car, glances at a map and becomes an expert in navigating old-world city streets? That’s the…
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Car attempts to use JavaScript
Getting started Getting fast feedback in your IDE is vital to having a happy developer experience. Flow adds that value for me for JavaScript programming. Atom Install ide-flowtype. I just switched from the lighter-weight linter-flow and I’m liking it. The good parts You can use Flow with no transpilation You can use Flow with no…
Read More Flow Type for coding in JavaScript with guardrailsI use n to manage my system/default NodeJS, but if I’m in a legacy repo (hint: pretty much every repo where I work) I’ll need to drop into an old version of NodeJS just for that terminal. Here’s how I install and use nvm. Based on the original instructions at: github.com/creationix/nvm curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.11/install.sh cd…
Read More Installing nvm for n usersThere is a war going on. A war between those that say Python requirements should be explicit and those that say requirements should be implicit. Before I continue, I’m going to be talking about requirements.txt, not setup.py. The difference between explicit and implicit requirements comes down to whether the line says Django==1.9.7 or Django, respectively.…
Read More requirements.txt==2.0With 12factor style environment configs, it’s a very easy to accidentally connect to your production database when you think you’re connecting to dev. Here’s a simple guard you can add to make sure your DATABASE_URL isn’t somehow pointed to someplace it’s not supposed to (assuming you’re using Amazon AWS): bash: if [[ ${DATABASE_URL} == *”amazonaws”*…
Read More Patterns: don’t mess up the prod db!I’ve come across tips on how to keep Docker images small and Dockerfiles with strange lines that seem to exist only to optimize image size. Well, it turns out they’re all wrong. They may have an effect with flat Docker images, but everything else (i.e. 99% of what people do), cleanup steps are just extra…
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Tips n’ tricks I’ve picked up over the years for managing technical debt, specifically for large Django projects.
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