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Greed is a Disease

Greed is a disease that is killing us all.

Get package.json version from CLI

Using Node

node -p -e "require('./package.json').version"

The -p argument prints the result and the -e argument expects executable JS to follow it. This one is also helpful for getting specific properties from any JSON file.

Using jq

cat ./package.json | jq '.version'

Use the cat program to read the contents of the file and pipe it to the jq program to parse the JSON.

Lodash in Shell

When both Node and Lodash are installed, they can be executed in shell scripts:

CHEESE="Camembert of Goat"
CAMEL_CHEESE=$(node -p -e "require('lodash').camelCase('${CHEESE}')")
KEBAB_CHEESE=$(node -p -e "require('lodash').kebabCase('${CHEESE}')")
echo $CAMEL_CHEESE # camembertOfGoat
echo $KEBAB_CHEESE # camembert-of-goat

Full Path

⚠️ This article is written for Mac OS.

It’s nice to see where the thing your looking at is located in the filesystem.

Chrome Tabs Keyboard Shortcuts

⚠️ This article is written for Mac OS.

When Chrome introduced Tag Groups, it was a big organizing aid. I found there were a couple things missing to make it really productive: keyboard shortcuts.

Omniscience

The RULIAD may be defined as the entangled limit of everything that is computationally possible.

Stephen Wolfram: Ruliad

TED Talk: Computational Universe

During a typical day, I would change to the main branch, pull the latest from the remote, delete the merged branches. Over and over all day, every day of the work. Now instead of all that checkout and pulling, I made a Git JERK!

Git -Xours -Xtheirs arguments

Git provides a helpful argument to prefer one branch or the other to “clobber” merge conflicts:

git merge main -Xours
git merge main -Xtheirs

I always get confused what the “X” means. I always assume “X” means mark which branch to clobber. Like “X” out their branch. Or “X” out our branch. Please wipe this mnemonic from your brain!

“X” means “PREFER”

“PREFER” the changes in their branch (-Xtheirs) or “PREFER” the changes in our branch (-Xours).

Jeez!

Humans don’t know what they care about

If you hand over the management of your civilization to machines, you then lose the incentive to understand it yourself or to teach the next generation. […] Up until now, we put a lot of our civilization into books. But the books can’t run it for us. So we always have to teach the next generation. If you work it out, it’s about a trillion person years of teaching and learning in an unbroken chain that goes back tens of thousands of generations. What happens if that chain breaks?
Stuart J. Russell

Await Timeout

(async () => {
  await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 500));
  ...
})();

Found on SO.