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Using Git Commit Message Templates to Write Better Commit Messages

The always enthusiastic and knowledgeable mr. @jasaltvik shared with our team an article on writing (good) Git commit messages: How to Write a Git Commit Message. This excellent article explains why good Git commit messages are important, and explains what constitutes a good commit message. I wholeheartedly agree with what @cbeams writes in his article. (Have you read it yet? If not, go read it now. I'll wait.) It's sensible stuff. So I decided to start following the

Increase key repeat rate on macOS

Settings: System Preferences » Keyboard » Key Repeat/Delay Until Repeat

Use the commands below to increase the key repeat rate on macOS beyond the possible settings via the user interface. The changes aren't applied until you restart your computer.

Source: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/83923

Makefile cheat sheet

Mostly geared towards GNU make

I've used ->| to indicate a tab character, as it's clearer to read than ⇥

Set a target, its dependencies and the commands to execute in order

target: [dependencies]
-&gt;|

npm rank

This gist is updated daily via cron job and lists stats for npm packages:

Top 1,000 most depended-upon packages
Top 1,000 packages with largest number of dependencies
Top 1,000 packages with highest PageRank score

How do you POST a JSON file with curl??

You can post a json file with curl like so:

curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @FILENAME DESTINATION

so for example:

Better local require() paths for Node.js

Problem

When the directory structure of your Node.js application (not library!) has some depth, you end up with a lot of annoying relative paths in your require calls like:

const Article = require('../../../../app/models/article');

Those suck for maintenance and they're ugly.

Possible solutions

tmux cheat sheet

(C-x means ctrl+x, M-x means alt+x)

Prefix key

The default prefix is C-b. If you (or your muscle memory) prefer C-a, you need to add this to ~/.tmux.conf:

remap prefix to Control + a

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Download a podcast episode from anchor.fm
	#
	# Usage:
	# grab-anchor-episode "https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Robert-MacNaughton---Learnings-from-the-Life-and-Death-of-the-Integral-Center-e31val" # (m4a example)
	# grab-anchor-episode "https://anchor.fm/free-chapel/episodes/Are-You-Still-In-Love-With-Praise--Pastor-Jentezen-Franklin-e19u4i8" # (mp3 example)
	#
	# anchor.fm serves a list of m4a or mp3 files that need to be concatenated with ffmpeg.
	#

	#!/bin/sh

	# FILL OUT YOUR INFO HERE

	LOGIN=PIA LOGIN HERE
	PASSWORD=PIA PASSWORD HERE
	USER=TRANSMISSION LOGIN HERE
	PASS=TRANSMISSION PASSWORD HERE
	BIN="/usr/bin/transmission-remote"
	LOGGING="/home/USERNAME/transmission_logging.txt"