Brad bnauta

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

Adding an audit log to your Rails app

If you have any sort of administrative interface on your web site, you can easily imagine an intruder gaining access and mucking about. How do you know the extent of the damage? Adding an audit log to your app is one quick solution. An audit log should record a few things:

controller entry points with parameter values
permanent information about the user, like user_id
transient information about the user, like IP and user_agent

Using the Rails framework, this is as simple as adding a before_action to your admin controllers. Here’s a basic version that I’m using in production.

libcaca output from your OSX webcam

ffmpeg -f avfoundation -framerate 30 -s "640x480" -i "0" -c:v rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 -f caca -s "640x480" output4.mp4

brew install ffmpeg with options

brew install homebrew-ffmpeg/ffmpeg/ffmpeg --with-libcaca

convert to another format, resize withouth quality loss

ffmpeg -i vitrine.mp4 -vf scale=1024:-1 -q:vscale 0 vitrine.avi

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Trello CSS Guide

“I perfectly understand our CSS. I never have any issues with cascading rules. I never have to use !important or inline styles. Even though somebody else wrote this bit of CSS, I know exactly how it works and how to extend it. Fixes are easy! I have a hard time breaking our CSS. I know exactly where to put new CSS. We use all of our CSS and it’s pretty small overall. When I delete a template, I know the exact corresponding CSS file and I can delete it all at once. Nothing gets left behind.”

You often hear updog saying stuff like this. Who’s updog? Not much, who is up with you?

Essential JavaScript Links

I no longer mantain this list. There are lots of other very comprehensive JavaScript link lists out there. Please see those, instead (Google "awesome JavaScript" for a start).

	/* bling.js */
	window.$ = document.querySelector.bind(document);
	window.$$ = document.querySelectorAll.bind(document);
	Node.prototype.on = window.on = function(name, fn) { this.addEventListener(name, fn); };
	NodeList.prototype.__proto__ = Array.prototype;
	NodeList.prototype.on = function(name, fn) { this.forEach((elem) => elem.on(name, fn)); };

	// array utils
	// =================================================================================================

	const combine = (...arrays) => [].concat(...arrays);

	const compact = arr => arr.filter(Boolean);

	const contains = (() => Array.prototype.includes
	? (arr, value) => arr.includes(value)
	: (arr, value) => arr.some(el => el === value)

	/*
	* Inspired by: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4360060/video-streaming-with-html-5-via-node-js
	*/

	var http = require('http'),
	fs = require('fs'),
	util = require('util');

	http.createServer(function (req, res) {
	var path = 'video.mp4';

	#!/bin/bash
	# http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-admin/2010-05/msg00285.php
	# Output lines suitable for sysctl configuration based
	# on total amount of RAM on the system. The output
	# will allow up to 50% of physical memory to be allocated
	# into shared memory.

	# On Linux, you can use it as follows (as root):
	#
	# ./shmsetup >> /etc/sysctl.conf

	Rails as it has never been before :)

	Rails 3 AntiPatterns, Useful snippets and Recommended Refactoring.

	Note: Some of them are collected from different online resources/posts/blogs with some tweaks.