Today I Learned Topics

[mattjmorrison]

Topics

• CI is not just about continuously integrating, it's about continuously testing, etc
• scaling celery with --concurrency
• chrome dev tools break on subtree modification debugging tooltip on enter / on leave
• hacking Django models (remote field & generic fks)
• highly configurable vs. opinionated - (myspace vs facebook)
• code spikes are harmful (when not used correctly)
• why are component heavy applications a bad idea
• vim configuration framework
• argumentative (vim) <, and >, to swap places
• targets (vim) "cin" "cil"
• ~ in postgres to match against a regex
• anchor django routes
  • "company/(?\d+)/$' # need an ^ here!!!
  • "something/something/something/(?P\w+)/(?\d+)/$'
• vimfiler
  • will resize to given width and won't get crazy like NERDTree
  • asks where to open a file when splits
  • flexible, configurable, well written, well documented
  • ~ to go to home, \ to go to root, & to go to project root, g? for help
  • select MULTIPLE files & folders
    • to edit, delete, rename, move, etc
  • search forward with / and BACKWARD with ?
  • create multiple files at once
  • create multiple directories at once
  • recursively create directories (multiple)
• reposition cursor in visual mode (use o)
• writing tests for grunt tasks with nodeunit (see grunt-karma-coveralls for example)
• unite (file fuzzy finder)
  • well written & documented
  • extremely configurable
• tmux moving panes
  • moving pane positions
  • moving panes to different tabs
• moving tmux panes into / out of windows
• vim moving panes
• Acceptance tests on UI is a good thing (refactoring how buttons are shown)
• twitter bootstrap container
• Testing responsive design with karma and Google Chrome
• Bash is out to destroy all of us http://recode.net/2014/09/24/bash-software-bug-may-pose-bigger-threat-than-heartbleed/
• Mapping tmux resize panes
• renamer.vim
• DirDiff (http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=102)
• npm shrinkwrap
• vim + tmux switching active panes
• change existing tmux session to read-only
• EasyAlign
• Turn off Cmd-Q for an app (Chrome, iTerm)
• Don't try to run 64 bit virtualbox images on 64 bit machines - run 32 bit images on 64 bit machines.
• CoffeeScript in Jekyll
• bower-installer
• Ember in Jekyll ({% raw %})
• Tags in Jekyll
• Github checklists in issues
• Pull Request workflow for blogging

Quotes

• Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. - Benjamin Franklin
• In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. - Charles Darwin
• I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. - Galileo Galilei
• I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
• Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. - Thomas Huxley
• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. - Benjamin Franklin
• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. - Bill Gates
• The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change. - Carl Rogers
• Learning never exhausts the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
• Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan
• The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous. - Carl Sagan
• The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. - Albert Einstein
• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius
• Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes. - Peter Drucker
• The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. - Herodotus
• Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. - Khalil Gibran
• The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. - Henry Ford
• Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse. - Zhuangzi
• An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin
• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
• He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. - Confucius
• Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? - Voltaire
• Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. - Al Franken
• He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. - Friedrich Nietzsche
• By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. - Richard Dawkins
• Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. - John Steinbeck
• Learn from the masses, and then teach them. - Mao Zedong
• If you want to earn more, learn more. - Zig Ziglar
• The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. - Aristotle
• In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate. - Rene Descartes