My favorite Bash resources
Bash is everywhere and I write a stupid amount of it for that very reason. It’s pretty hard to write good Bash. Here are some resources I’ve used to try and level up my code.
Getting stuck
A pretty good list of some of the ways devs get stuck on their work.
How to review code links
Someone posted some code review guides on Hacker News. I need to give them a read and update this post on whether or not they are actually any good.
The book that taught me MySQL
It took me a few years to truly grasp MySQL and the concept of relational databases. The MySQL Pocket Reference is the book that helped it all click for me.
Jekyll image galleries in 2022
It’s been a while since I’ve attempted to make an image gallery with Jekyll.
Back in the Octopress days, you had to use a separate Jekyll plugin, or
Rakefile to generate it for you. These days, first class support for
static files (site.static_files) makes it a breeze.
Jekyll cheatsheet
This Jekyll cheatsheet looks pretty nice 👌
Hardening macOS
I found nice little security-focused guide on hardening macOS.
Running queries against CSV with sqlite3
Someone posted a little overview of working with CSV files via sqlite.
Amdahl’s Law
In a random thread on Hacker News talking about air purifiers, someone mentioned Amdahl’s Law:
Getting a new game sucks today
Getting a new game sucks today. Back in my day, we had booklets to read by street light on the drive home from Toys ‘R Us. You popped the game in, and if your room was clean, you were ready to rock. No console updates. No installing files to disk. No downloading game updates. Just you, your shiny new game, and a soda.