Loraine Kanervisto blip-lorist

(This is still a work-in-progress, which is why it's living here in my github gists)

Why

After many years of working full-time in the tech industry, I wanted to explore contracting and consulting, with the hopes that I'll be able to distribute my time across software and creative projects of my choosing. I looked into forming a Single Member LLC to keep my business and personal assets separate and for the liability protections. This seems like a fairly common practice amongst tech consultants, and prospective clients I've spoken to so far seem pretty familiar with working with contractors who have a SMLLC.

Disclaimer

This isn't meant to be legal or tax guidance - go see a lawyer or accountant for that! I'm writing this out to chronicle my own experience with setting up a Single Member LLC in the state of Washington, and I'm learning as I go along.

Exploring permutations and a mystery with BSD and GNU split filenames

Published on: 2018-01-22 05:36:09 at lorainekv.com

Recently, I was playing around with the split command-line tool on Mac OS X, and I decided to chop a 4000-line file into 4000 separate single-line files. However, when I attempted to run split -l1, I ran into a funny error:

split: too many files

Database Linkwalk

Concepts

OLAP vs OLTP (article)
ACID (article)
Vertical vs Horizonal Table Partitioning (article)

SQL

Database Denormalization (article)

Tmux Setup Guide

Why even?

Workflow management: Tired of opening the same directories / windows / panes when working on a project? You can save it all to a session and return at any time.
Terminal window and pane management (handy when using vim)
Session management: run time-consuming terminal processes in one session, and go do other stuff in other sessions

Installation (OS X)

brew install tmux

	Input:
	A text file with a URL on each line. Example url-list.txt:
	http://blah.com
	http://blah2.com

	Run:
	while read url; do curl -I $url 2> /dev/null \| head -n1 \| awk -v url=$url '{print $2, url}'; done < url-list.txt > link-statuses.txt

	Output:
	link-statuses.txt

	# Add to your .bash_profile or .bash_aliases
	alias gp='if grep -r --exclude-dir={.git,tmp,log,coverage,public} -Hn binding.pry .; then echo Please remove breakpoints in the above files; else git push; fi'