Tuesday, August 08, 2017
watched some video talks today:
- Git Anti Patterns How Mess Up With Git And Love It Again by Lemi Orhan Ergin
- Turning the JVM into a Polyglot VM with Graal
- Pattern Matching with Brian Goetz
the pattern matching talk is good, you can see how hard to put a new feature into java, but Brian Goetz explains very well and I always think they made the right tradeoffs. (I still want to know the reason why Rich Hickey doesn't like the matching part, must be something)
also put these to watch list:
- GOTO 2017 • Serverless Chatbots with Amazon Lex & AWS Lambda
- Build and Deploy Containerized Redis Cache for High Availability and Performance
- Event Bus as Backbone for Decoupled Microservice Choreography
vim tricks
my colleague shows me a trick: man ls | less +/pattern
, it will search pattern
on start
I used to jump to specific line with vim by using vim +4 file
, so I think maybe vim supports it as well.
it does.
I want to jump to end of file on opening, tried vim +G file
, doesn't work.
found out vim + file
can jump to end of file, but to put cursor to end of line, need this: vim "+normal G$"
(or GA
)
rohitpaulk/simple-editor: A bare-bones text editor, written in Clojure.
pretty cool, I'd like to develop something for terminal using clojure.
someone in the discussion mentioned ed
, I realized I didn't know how to use it, I'll start my study on it: Actually using ed
emacs, the editor I didn't use for quite a while:
to disable buffer coloring: m-x font-lock-mode
or put (global-font-lock-mode 0)
to init, however, doesn't work for me.
Wednesday, August 09, 2017
to enable netbeans terminal key repeat under os x:
$ defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
tried fireplace.vim today, simple and good enough for me to write clojure, similar to emacs' inf-clojure
to start:
- start a
nrepl
bylein repl
orboot repl
- open the
clj
file ane run:Connect
, then enter the host and port
keys:
cpp
for the innermost form under the cursorcq
bring up a command-line windowcqq
prepopulates the command-line window with the expression under the cursor.cqc
gives you a blank line in insert mode.K
is mapped to look up the symbol under the cursor with doc.[d
is mapped to look up the symbol under the cursor with source.[<C-D>
jumps to the definition of a symbol (even if it's inside a jar file).gf
, everybody's favorite "go to file" command, works on namespaces.
the flow is fater than cider
and I can close the editor anytime.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
go
talks has their own slide tool:
$ go get golang.org/x/tools/cmd/present
then write a .slide
, in the format specified by here
run present your-file.slide
, it serves your slide with http
can check Go talks repo for reference.
one nice thing of it is you can run code snippets in your slides, present
also opens a websocket to receive snippet and send result back to the channel. (for php, ruby etc, remember add shebang #!
on top)
Saturday, August 12, 2017
moving my hosting from digital ocean to vultr, for the same price vultr provides double memory.
I forgot how to setup servers alreay...
for 2FA setup:
$ apt-get install libpam-google-authenticator
$ google-authenticator
follow instructions to setup google authenticator for current user.
then update sshd to support it:
fist edit /etc/pam.d/sshd
:
# add this line at the top
auth required pam_google_authenticator.so nullok
edit /etc/ssh/sshd
:
ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes
PasswordAuthentication yes
LoginGraceTime 30
PermitRootLogin yes
StrictModes yes
MaxAuthTries 3
remember keep an active session before restart
restart sshd
I don't know how to deal with ipv6
, so I just disabled it:
echo "net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-my-disable-ipv6.conf
sudo service procps reload
I always like the simplicity of ufw
:
ufw default deny incoming
ufw default allow outgoing
ufw allow 80/tcp
ufw allow 22/tcp
ufw status verbose
Sunday, August 13, 2017
boot repl
to start a nrepl
server, then use m-x cider-connect
or m-x inf-clojure-connect
connect my script to it
they both works and I don't have preference now.
there's an important function though, put it in build.boot
where boot repl
runs:
(defn deps [new-deps]
(merge-env! :dependencies new-deps))
it allows me to include new dependencies without restart the repl.
Monday, August 14, 2017
watched two talks from infoq, both good:
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
to put a java program runs as service under ubuntu, save following to /etc/systemd/user/myservice.service
:
[Unit]
Description=myservice
After=network.target
[Service]
WorkingDirectory=/home/user/jars
EnvironmentFile=/home/user/jars/jar_env
Restart=always
RestartSec=5
ExecStart=/usr/bin/java -jar /home/user/jars/myservice.jar
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
then load the service file: systemctl --user daemon-reload
and start service: systemctl --user start myservice
watched two talks about microservices:
Four Distributed Systems Architectural Patterns by Tim Berglund
the first two 3-tier
and sharding
are really good
followed lambda
and streaming
are more like advertisement for kafka, ruined the whole talk.
Using sagas to maintain data consistency in a microservice architecture by Chris Richardson
this talk is a little bit more detailed than GOTO 2016 • The Verification of a Distributed System • Caitie McCaffrey
I hate writing tests, but I agree generated tests are useful and make much more sense to me.
John Hughes - Don't Write Tests is a talk about generated tests using quickcheck
from the talk I watched: Clojure Spec: Expressing Data Constraints without Types
clojure spec makes generating tests much easier
test.check is a quickcheck for clojure
I had some intensive reading on laravel, I really don't like it.
just take a look at the Authentication part.
so driver
and provider
, should be some classes right? where are they? I have no idea.
then you'll find internally they're passing around using interfaces (Contract in their term), where is the implementation? no idea.
finally somewhere in the config, there're relationships of interfaces and the actual implementation class, it's one to one relationship, why use interface then?
methods often come from nowhere because there're traits
everywhere.
and the best practice part: don't put logics in controllers because it's hard to test, put logics in services, and no logics in models as well, repositories are the right place. views are not flexible, need transformers. seriously?
I miss codeigniter a lot, it maybe not as modern as laravel, but I don't see so many wrong abstraction in it. most importantly, it's simple.
I heard good comments about gin-gonic/gin, I'm going to give it a try.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
I'm watching clojure talks again:
- Chicago Clojure - Stuart Halloway on Repl Driven Development
- otplike – Erlang/OTP processes and behaviours for Clojure
clojure startup time is still a topic, Eric Normand also shares his workflow
Saturday, August 19, 2017
when I want to send a file to colleague, I usually starts a nc
$ nc -l [port] < file-to-send
then ask them to get it using nc
:
$ nc [my-ip] [port] > save-to-file
however, the connect is very insecure.
I found an utility from nmap
does support ssl
: ncat
first, generate a new cert:
$ openssl req -new -x509 -keyout test-key.pem -out test-cert.pem
to serve a file:
$ ncat -l --send-only --ssl --ssl-cert test-cert.pem --ssl-key test-key.pem < file-to-send
default port is 31337
, you can add verbose flag -v
to inspect.
to receive file from another machine:
$ ncat --recv-only --ssl host-name > save-to-file
with --send-only
and --recv-only
, ncat
should be closed the connection once done. without them, you'll need to use ctrl-c
or set timeout to close it.
it's very easy. actually I was thinking to write a go program to generate the cert and serve with https. I might still do that but the priority is low now.
I really want to make my emacs works under terminal, however, it's very difficult. I have many keys rely on combination what won't support by the terminal.
Sunday, August 20, 2017
this, can apply to microservices in my opnion. the old 3-tier architecture scales pretty well, and it's simple.
it reminds me I need to dig deep into SQL.
another article is not as popular as the one above, but I like it: Small Functions considered Harmful
I prefer long and duplicate codes, before patterns are seen. wrong abstraction is bad, Spaghetti is better than Ravioli.
Monday, August 21, 2017
reading Working with Linux – Quick Hacks for the Command Line, not deep, learned couple tips from it:
encrypt file in vim
first, put set cryptmethod=blowfish
(default is just zip, newer vim version supports blowfish2
)
then open a file, enter :X
, it asks you for a key to encrypt the file.
once you saved the file, content is encrypted. next time you open the file, enter the same key to decrypt it.
not super secure, as the blowfish method provides strong confidentiality, but no message integrity guarantees.
for emacs, by default it uses EasyPG
even better, you can highlight a region and just encrypt it by m-x epa-encrypt-region
with a key.
select the encrypted region and use m-x epa-decrypt-region
and enter same key to decrypt it.
once again, emacs is better :p
set default value for bash var
usually I'll just use $1
to accept conditional input for my bash scripts
I learned from the book I can set a default value by using
FOLDER=${1:-default_folder}
append the default value after :-
I won't try to remember all bash patterns, they are so weird, like
extension="${filename##*.}"
filename="${filename%.*}"
the default value one is simple and easy to remember.
Friday, August 25, 2017
I mentioned share file via ncat
with ssl above, however, I still wanted to write the program.
so spent a night to develop a simple program with go: goserve
more on TLS in go: Hitless TLS Certificate Rotation in Go
by the way, Go 1.9 is released today
saw this article from 2014 on hackernews today: How ACH works: A developer perspective - Part 1
The Automatic Clearing House (ACH) network is the primary way money moves electronically through the banking system today.
I'm working on a virtual currency system now, so I need to finish this series.
reading Linux Phrasebook (2nd Edition)
it is very very good, it explains linux system concisely, my understanding with linux becomes more solid after I read it.
highly recommended.
I remember I read another phasebook before, The Go Programming Language Phrasebook, also a very good one.
lisp
I don't know, I can't use car
/cdr
I still want to try common lisp again, since I'm more comfortable with parentheses now.
about clojure:
and cs papers:
Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper? | Hacker News
youtube, I watched some these days:
GOTO 2016 • Stability Patterns & Antipatterns • Michael T. Nygard
I listened to Michael Nygard on cognicast, then I went to watch his talks.
he has very deep and solid knowledge, I'm looking forward to his Release It! Second Edition
the talk is good, but if you already read release it, you'll know he will deliver high quality content.
Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 – Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015
pep 8 is style guide for python code, I don't code python, but I still found this talk useful.
your code follows style guide, covered with tests, doesn't mean it's good. good code is difficult, I'm still learning.
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