Guy Bianco IV gjbianco

[This portion of call begins at 25:47]

Me: I could make it really easy on you, if you think Apollo is costing you $20 million per year, cut me a check for $10 million and we can both skip off into the sunset. Six months of use. We're good. That's mostly a joke.

Reddit: Six months of use? What do you mean? I know you said that was mostly a joke, but I want to take everything you're saying seriously just to make sure I'm not - what are you referring to?

Me: Okay, if Apollo's opportunity cost currently is $20 million dollars. At the 7 billion requests and API volume. If that's your yearly opportunity cost for Apollo, cut that in half, say for 6 months. Bob's your uncle.

Reddit: You cut out right at the end. I'm not asking you to repeat yourself for a third time, but you legit cut out right at the end. "If your opportunity cost is $10 million" and then I lost you.

Don't use Vim

Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time.

-- Anthony Vincenzo "Tony" Baretta

Vim is an amazing text editor. I love it. Really, I wouldn't [organize][organize] a Vim advent calendar if I didn't. But, as amazing as it is, Vim is not for everyone. It can't solve all your problems, or be a TUI version of your favorite IDE, or make you a better programmer, or land you that dream job in the Bay Area. But Vim can help you be more mindful, focused, and efficient, as long as you approach it with the right mindset.

Don't get me wrong, I certainly welcome you to try Vim, but I'm not a proselyte. I don't thrive on newbies. I just want you to use the right tool for the job and not waste your—and anyone's—time on a fruitless quest.

Installing tmux-256color for macOS

macOS 10.15.5
tmux 3.1b

macOS has ncurses version 5.7 which does not ship the terminfo description for tmux. There're two ways that can help you to solve this problem.

The Fast Blazing Solution

Instead of tmux-256color, use screen-256color which comes with system. Place this command into ~/.tmux.conf or ~/.config/tmux/tmux.conf(for version 3.1 and later):

Installing Fish shell on MacOS (Intel and M1) using brew

Fish is a smart and user-friendly command line (like bash or zsh). This is how you can instal Fish on MacOS and make your default shell.

Note that you need the https://brew.sh/ package manager installed on your machine.

Install Fish

brew install fish

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

There are always 24 hours in a day.
February is always 28 days long.
Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

My Vim-related gists

Long-form

Introduction to Angular

Angular (aka Angular 2) is a new framework completely rewritten from the ground up, replacing the famous AngularJS framework (aka Angular 1.x).

More that just a framework, Angular should now be considered as a whole platform which comes with a complete set of tools, like its own CLI, debug utilities or performance tools.

	'use strict';

	module.exports = {
	createSingleLock: createSingleLock,
	createKeyedLock: createKeyedLock
	};

	// Maintains a list of locks referenced by keys
	function createKeyedLock() {
	const locks = {};

	set imap_user="[email protected]"
	set imap_pass=`/usr/bin/security find-generic-password -w -a '[email protected]' -s 'Gmail'`

	set folder=imaps://imap.gmail.com/
	set spoolfile=+INBOX
	set record="+[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
	set postponed="+[Gmail]/Drafts"

	# https://www.neomutt.org/guide/reference search sleep_time for additional info
	set sleep_time=0 # be faster

	Jenkinsfile VIM syntax highlighting
	echo 'au BufNewFile,BufRead Jenkinsfile setf groovy' >> ~/.vimrc