Maximilian Haack coffeejunk

How to automate the build of bottles on your Homebrew tap

Note on Oct 4, 2018: due to a change in Homebrew's brew test-bot behaviour, the user must set HOMEBREW_TRAVIS_CI and HOMEBREW_TRAVIS_SUDO appropriately (it was previously using Travis-CI-provided TRAVIS and TRAVIS_SUDO).

This tutorial is a follow-up to the discussion we had on davidchall/homebrew-hep#114. It relies on a fork of the test-bot provided by davidchall; you can get it with brew tap maelvalais/test-bot. First:

the Github project must be of the form https://github.com//homebrew- with the following tree

From time to time, Musk will send out an e-mail to the entire company to enforce a new policy or let them know about something that's bothering him. One of the more famous e-mails arrived in May 2010 with the subject line: Acronyms Seriously Suck:

There is a creeping tendency to use made up acronyms at SpaceX. Excessive use of made up acronyms is a significant impediment to communication and keeping communication good as we grow is incredibly important. Individually, a few acronyms here and there may not seem so bad, but if a thousand people are making these up, over time the result will be a huge glossary that we have to issue to new employees. No one can actually remember all these acronyms and people don't want to seem dumb in a meeting, so they just sit there in ignorance. This is particularly tough on new employees.

That needs to stop immediately or I will take drastic action - I have given enough warning over the years. Unless an acronym is approved by me, it should not enter the SpaceX glossary.

How to setup AWS lambda function to talk to the internet and VPC

I'm going to walk you through the steps for setting up a AWS Lambda to talk to the internet and a VPC. Let's dive in.

So it might be really unintuitive at first but lambda functions have three states.

No VPC, where it can talk openly to the web, but can't talk to any of your AWS services.
VPC, the default setting where the lambda function can talk to your AWS services but can't talk to the web.
VPC with NAT, The best of both worlds, AWS services and web.

Make it real

Ideas are cheap. Make a prototype, sketch a CLI session, draw a wireframe. Discuss around concrete examples, not hand-waving abstractions. Don't say you did something, provide a URL that proves it.

Ship it

Nothing is real until it's being used by a real user. This doesn't mean you make a prototype in the morning and blog about it in the evening. It means you find one person you believe your product will help and try to get them to use it.

Do it with style

Notes

This is the latest version of an email which I send periodically, offering customers the opportunity to pre-pay for SaaS in return for a discount. The benefits to the SaaS company are better cash flow and reduced churn rate. The benefits to the customer are, well, in the email. This genre of email has produced hundreds of thousands of dollars in pre-pays for some companies I work with, and it rarely requires any more work than this example.

I've put $79 is as a placeholder for the cost of the user's plan. We calculate that for each account, naturally, along with the billing contact's name.

Subject: Save $79 on Appointment Reminder (and get a tax write-off) Formatting: 100% plain text. Gmail automatically links up the central link. From: Patrick McKenzie (Appointment Reminder) patrick@appointmentreminder.org

	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	"""
	Compiled, mashed and generally mutilated 2014-2015 by Denis Pleic
	Made available under GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

	# Modified Python I2C library for Raspberry Pi
	# as found on http://www.recantha.co.uk/blog/?p=4849
	# Joined existing 'i2c_lib.py' and 'lcddriver.py' into a single library
	# added bits and pieces from various sources
	# By DenisFromHR (Denis Pleic)

	#
	apt-get install openjdk-8-jre

	# PostgreSQL and PostGIS
	apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib postgis postgresql-10-postgis-2.4

	# Create "geoserver" database
	sudo -u postgres createuser -P geoserver
	sudo -u postgres createdb -O geoserver geoserver
	sudo -u postgres psql -c "CREATE EXTENSION postgis; CREATE EXTENSION postgis_topology;" geoserver

	function infoClickHandler (event) {
	console.log('Info Click Handler Fired:', event)

	let currentInfos = [] // the array we'll fill with the data returned from arcgis Server

	// get pixel click location
	const pixel = mapElement.getEventPixel(event.originalEvent)

	// generate list of layers
	let layers = []

	# https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/2.1/tutorial/vcl.html
	# https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/VCLExamples

	# Summary
	# 1. Varnish will poll the backend at /health_check to make sure it is
	# healthy. If the backend goes down, varnish will server stale content
	# from the cache for up to 1 hour.
	# 2. Varnish will pass X-Forwarded-For headers through to the backend
	# 3. Varnish will remove cookies from urls that match static content file
	# extensions (jpg, gif, ...)

	# app/controllers/users/password_controller.rb

	class Users::PasswordsController < Devise::PasswordsController
	def resource_params
	params.require(:user).permit(:email, :password, :password_confirmation)
	end
	private :resource_params
	end