Harrison (Harry) Cramer harrisoncramer

Introductory resources

High level overview https://yogthos.github.io/ClojureDistilled.html
An Animated Introduction to Clojure https://markm208.github.io/cljbook/
Interactive tutorial in a browser https://tryclojure.org/
Interactive exercises http://clojurescriptkoans.com/
Clerk notebooks with introductory examples https://github.clerk.garden/anthonygalea/notes-on-clojure
More interactive exercises https://4clojure.oxal.org/
Lambda Island tutorials https://lambdaisland.com/
Functional Programming with Clojure resources https://practicalli.github.io/

S3 Static Sites

⚠ This post is fairly old. I don't keep it up to date. Be sure to see comments where some people have posted updates

What this will cover

Host a static website at S3
Redirect www.website.com to website.com
Website can be an SPA (requiring all requests to return index.html)
Free AWS SSL certs
Deployment with CDN invalidation

2021 Update: Easiest option is Justin's repo and image

Just run this from your Mac terminal and it'll drop you in a container with full permissions on the Docker VM. This also works for Docker for Windows for getting in Moby Linux VM (doesn't work for Windows Containers).

docker run -it --rm --privileged --pid=host justincormack/nsenter1

more info: https://github.com/justincormack/nsenter1

Creating a Twitter bot with Node.js

Learn how you can create your own Twitter bot using Node.js and the new Twitter API. The bot will auto retweet in response to tweets with some particular hashtags. (https://goo.gl/4whEIt)

Tools we need

Here are the tools we’ll be using to create the bot —

Node.js installed in your machine
A registered Twitter account

Create a Twitter application

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

	.vimrc
	" Map leader to comma
	let maplocalleader=","

	" Toggle this for vim-sexp to not go into insert mode after wrapping something
	let g:sexp_insert_after_wrap = 0
	" Toggle this to disable automatically creating closing brackets and quotes
	let g:sexp_enable_insert_mode_mappings = 1

	Vocab

	# Basic commands

	:Git [args] # does what you'd expect

	all of your `~/.gitconfig` aliases are available.

	:Git! [args] # same as before, dumping output to a tmp file

	Moving inside a repo.

	variable "aws_region" {
	default = "eu-west-1"
	}

	variable "domain" {
	default = "my_domain"
	}

	provider "aws" {
	region = "${var.aws_region}"