Here’s a good resource for all of those who is trying to learn shell and/or figure out complex commands with lots of parameters and pipes – Explain Shell.
You just paste the command and hit the “Explain” button, and the site will decompose the command into parts, providing relevant parts from the manual pages. There are a few examples to try it out on too.
With all the security breaches going around, it’s hard to keep track on which sites got broken into, what was stolen, and, most importantly, if you are affected. have i been pwned? website provides a very simple interface to check if your account data was leaked, across more than a hundred websites.
Try it out … you might be surprised. Like I was. :)
I came across this blog post which provides some very handy tips for debugging JavaScript in the browser. My favorite top three are:
Display an object in a table format for an easier view
var animals = [
{ animal: ‘Horse’, name: ‘Henry’, age: 43 },
{ animal: ‘Dog’, name: ‘Fred’, age: 13 },
{ animal: ‘Cat’, name: ‘Frodo’, age: 18 }
];
console.table(animals);
with this output:
Unminify code as an easy way to debug JavaScript
Custom console log messages
console.todo = function(msg) {
console.log(‘ % c % s % s % s‘, ‘color: yellow; background - color: black;’, ‘–‘, msg, ‘–‘);
}
console.important = function(msg) {
console.log(‘ % c % s % s % s’, ‘color: brown; font - weight: bold; text - decoration: underline;’, ‘–‘, msg, ‘–‘);
}
console.todo(“This is something that’ s need to be fixed”);
console.important(‘This is an important message’);
for this result:
Very handy stuff!
BitBucket blog announces Pipelines Beta (coincidentally after I’ve spent about a week playing with Jenkins). These guys are dropping their Bamboo Cloud CI solution and instead provide this:
It looks a lot like TravisCI, but on steroids! Very good news!
GitHub blog says that from now on your profile can include the private repository contributions on your profile.
When enabled, these can make quite a difference in the number of the green boxes, showing your GitHub activity. Here’s an example from mine. Before enabling those, showing only Open Source contributions:
And here’s one after, including private repository contributions:
Indeed, it is a more accurate representation of my GitHub activity. Given that these days most of my private repository activity happens on BitBucket and not on GitHub, this is quite surprising.