Brett Cooke bcooke

brew is a bad neighbor

This isn't a guide about locking down homebrew so that it can't touch the rest of your system security-wise.

This guide doesn't fix the inherent security issues of a package management system that will literally yell at you if you try to do something about "huh, maybe it's not great my executables are writeable by my account without requiring authorization first".

But it absolutely is a guide about shoving it into its own little corner so that you can take it or leave it as you see fit, instead of just letting the project do what it likes like completely taking over permissions and ownership of a directory that might be in use by other software on your Mac and stomping all over their contents.

By following this guide you will:

Never have to run sudo to forcefully change permissions of some directory to be owned by your account

How to use:

./wordle.sh

Or try the unlimit mode:

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

Guide on how to create and set up a Dockerized web app using Django REST APIs and ReactJS

Hopefully this will answer "How do I setup or start a Django project using REST Framework and ReactJS?"

I created this because it was SUCH a pain in the ass setting up a project using all the latest technologies. After some research, I figured it out and have it working. The repo that implements this is located here. Feel free to use it as a boilerplate ;)

Main features:

Django REST APIs
ReactJS with Redux Pattern
Webpack module bundler manager

Using py.test is great and the support for test fixtures is pretty awesome. However, in order to share your fixtures across your entire module, py.test suggests you define all your fixtures within one single conftest.py file. This is impractical if you have a large quantity of fixtures -- for better organization and readibility, you would much rather define your fixtures across multiple, well-named files. But how do you do that? ...No one on the internet seemed to know.

Turns out, however, you can define fixtures in individual files like this:

tests/fixtures/add.py

import pytest

@pytest.fixture

ES6 Defaults / Overrides Pattern

Combine default parameters and destructuring for a compact version of the defaults / overrides pattern.

function foo ({
    bar = 'no',
    baz = 'works!'
  } = {}) {

OBSOLETE

This entire guide is based on an old version of Homebrew/Node and no longer applies. It was only ever intended to fix a specific error message which has since been fixed. I've kept it here for historical purposes, but it should no longer be used. Homebrew maintainers have fixed things and the options mentioned don't exist and won't work.

I still believe it is better to manually install npm separately since having a generic package manager maintain another package manager is a bad idea, but the instructions below don't explain how to do that.

Fixing npm On Mac OS X for Homebrew Users

Installing node through Homebrew can cause problems with npm for globally installed packages. To fix it quickly, use the solution below. An explanation is also included at the end of this document.

	// The classic AJAX call - dispatch before the request, and after it comes back
	function myThunkActionCreator(someValue) {
	return (dispatch, getState) => {
	dispatch({type : "REQUEST_STARTED"});

	myAjaxLib.post("/someEndpoint", {data : someValue})
	.then(
	response => dispatch({type : "REQUEST_SUCCEEDED", payload : response}),
	error => dispatch({type : "REQUEST_FAILED", error : error})
	);

	#!/bin/bash
	# Stop all containers
	containers=`docker ps -a -q`
	if [ -n "$containers" ] ; then
	docker stop $containers
	fi
	# Delete all containers
	containers=`docker ps -a -q`
	if [ -n "$containers" ]; then
	docker rm -f -v $containers

	// This is an example of use.
	// Here we use the new Bearer Token thats make it possible to get tweets without user login
	// More info on Bearer here: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/auth/application-only-auth
	// Full Codebird API is here: https://github.com/mynetx/codebird-js

	var Codebird = require("codebird");
	var cb = new Codebird();
	cb.setConsumerKey('CONSUMER_KEY', 'CONSUMER_SECRET_KEY');

	var bearerToken = Ti.App.Properties.getString('TwitterBearerToken', null);