Cameron Wood cewood

Do I want to die on this hill?

Pass: This is morally good and if not handled has long term consequences
Fail: This if self serving

Am I including everyone?

Pass: My ego is not driving this conversation
Fail: The people in this conversation will only tell me I'm right and not push back

Multiple git identities on one machine

TL;DR

One machine, several git identities: typically personal vs work, GitHub vs GitLab, or two accounts on the same provider. This setup makes every repository pick the right name, email, and keys on its own, so no work commit ever goes out under your personal address (or the reverse). In a hurry: run the Appendix B script once per identity.

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Removal of McAfee from OSX

Note: This was written in 2015, it may be out of date now.

There are a lot of commands here which I use sudo if you don't know what you're doing with sudo, especially where I rm you can severely screw up your system.

There are many reasons which you would want to remove a piece of software such as McAfee, such as not wanting it to hammer your CPU during work hours which seems like primetime for a virus scan.

I intend this to be a living document, I have included suggestions from peoples' replies.

THIS GIST WAS MOVED TO TERMSTANDARD/COLORS REPOSITORY.

PLEASE ASK YOUR QUESTIONS OR ADD ANY SUGGESTIONS AS A REPOSITORY ISSUES OR PULL REQUESTS INSTEAD!

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

	#!/bin/bash

	# Unlock the directory, we need the unencrypted versions of the files
	git crypt unlock

	# Re-initialize git crypt, generating a new key
	rm .git/git-crypt/keys/default
	git crypt init

	# Make the key available to the current users

	# Makefile for transpiling with Babel in a Node app, or in a client- or
	# server-side shared library.

	.PHONY: all clean

	# Install `babel-cli` in a project to get the transpiler.
	babel := node_modules/.bin/babel

	# Identify modules to be transpiled by recursively searching the `src/`
	# directory.

	#!/bin/bash
	# script for pyenv installation of pygtk3 in ubuntu 12.04
	# Adapted from https://gist.github.com/mehcode/6172694

	system_package_installed() {
	if ! dpkg -l \| grep -q $1; then
	sudo apt-get install $1
	fi
	}