Discover gists

Code is clean if it can be understood easily – by everyone on the team. Clean code can be read and enhanced by a developer other than its original author. With understandability comes readability, changeability, extensibility and maintainability.

General rules

Follow standard conventions.
Keep it simple stupid. Simpler is always better. Reduce complexity as much as possible.
Boy scout rule. Leave the campground cleaner than you found it.
Always find root cause. Always look for the root cause of a problem.

Design rules

Option 1 - Use This Bitcoin Fast Sync Command

There is no torrent which would be faster than just using the Bitcoin network "hive" - which is huge. There may be a way to sync using local or low-latency nodes nearby, but any time you specify which nodes you sync from - it introduces risk.

Very good to have a fast CPU and lots of RAM, SSD is not as important as RAM.

With this command I was able to download the entire blockchain and create all indices in almost exactly 24 hours:

bitcoind --datadir=<path-to-external-ssd> -blockfilterindex=1 -txindex=1 -coinstatsindex=1 -dbcache=16384 -daemon If you have 32GB of RAM, you can use 32768 for dbcache

If your custom iso is not mounting, and your console is at an iPXE shell, you can:

initrd http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/files/iso/10/amd64/mfsbsd-se-10.1-RELEASE-amd64.iso

While the iso is downloading, vultr's iPXE does not include memdisk, so we have to upload it ourselves to another host.

Here's one I found public, though I wouldn't recommend using it: http://preseed.panticz.de/ipxe/memdisk

Antonym List

Note: The table headings (positive/negative) are not necessarily meaningful.

Positive	Negative
`acquire`	`release`
`add`	`remove` (e.g. an item), `subtract` (arithmetic)
`advance`	`retreat`
`allocate`	`deallocate` (correct), `free` (common)
`allow`	`deny`

Updating expired GPG keys and their backup 🔑🔐💻

I use a GPG key to sign my git commits.

An error like this one might be a sign of an expired GPG key.

error: gpg failed to sign the data fatal: failed to write commit object

Steps:

Add Activation Code
Click Manage Proxy
Click Manual proxy
Add localhost in hostname

Activation Code:

I2A0QUY8VU-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

Complete Recent Discord Quest

Note

This no longer works in browser!

Note

This no longer works if you're alone in vc! Somebody else has to join you!

How to use this script:

Accept the quest under User Settings -> Gift Inventory

	---
	# Page meta info, like heading, footer text and nav links
	pageInfo:
	title: Dashy
	description: Welcome to your new dashboard!
	navLinks:
	- title: GitHub
	path: https://github.com/Lissy93/dashy
	- title: Documentation
	path: https://dashy.to/docs

	a4b.amazonaws.com
	access-analyzer.amazonaws.com
	account.amazonaws.com
	acm-pca.amazonaws.com
	acm.amazonaws.com
	airflow-env.amazonaws.com
	airflow.amazonaws.com
	alexa-appkit.amazon.com
	alexa-connectedhome.amazon.com
	amazonmq.amazonaws.com

	using System;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.IO;
	using System.Text;

	namespace DataExportClass
	{
	class Program
	{
	public class Employee