Sheldon McGee tooshel

Use curl to get the JSON response for the latest release
Use grep to find the line containing file URL
Use cut and tr to extract the URL
Use wget to download it

curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/jgm/pandoc/releases/latest \
| grep "browser_download_url.*deb" \
| cut -d : -f 2,3 \
| tr -d \" \

PostgreSQL is Enough

Background and Cron Jobs

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

	# This stops the script on any error!
	set -e

	cd
	mv Uplink*.zip old
	rm -r build
	myurl=`curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/<repo_name>/<repository>/releases/latest \| grep "browser_download_url.*zip" \| cut -d : -f 2,3 \| tr -d \" `
	echo $myurl
	myfilename=`echo ${myurl##*/}`
	echo $myfilename

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# Abort sign off on any error
	set -e

	# Start the benchmark timer
	SECONDS=0

	# Repository introspection
	OWNER=$(gh repo view --json owner --jq .owner.login)

	[user]
	name = Sheldon McGee
	email = [email protected]
	[alias]
	A = add -A
	a = add
	aa = add --all
	ae = add --edit
	ai = add --interactive
	amend = commit --amend -C HEAD

	var mongo = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
	var settings = { mongo: "mongodb://cactuscon:[email protected]:29630/cactuscon-dcc" };
	get("funstuff", function(err, data){
	console.log(data);
	});
	function get(collectionname, callback){
	mongo.connect(settings.mongo, function(err, db){
	var collection = db.collection(collectionname);
	var cursor = collection.find();
	collection.find().toArray(function(err, results){

	// Includes functions for exporting active sheet or all sheets as JSON object (also Python object syntax compatible).
	// Tweak the makePrettyJSON_ function to customize what kind of JSON to export.

	var FORMAT_ONELINE = 'One-line';
	var FORMAT_MULTILINE = 'Multi-line';
	var FORMAT_PRETTY = 'Pretty';

	var LANGUAGE_JS = 'JavaScript';
	var LANGUAGE_PYTHON = 'Python';