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I Tried To Virtually Stalk Mark Zuckerberg

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Part 1. A Naive Dream The Dream In late 2015, I finished reading Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and was very inspired to try to automate something in my life. At the same time, I have been always fascinated by Mark Zuckerberg – the Bill Gates of our time. A lot of people love […]

Simple Guide to Finding a JavaScript Memory Leak in Node.js

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Table of Contents Introduction Minimal Theory Step 1. Reproduce and confirm the problem Step 2. Take at least 3 Heap dumps Step 3. Find the problem Step 4. Confirm that the issue is resolved Links to some other resources Summary Something you might want to bookmark: Simple Guide to Finding a JavaScript Memory Leak in […]

Inspecting Nested Scope in Angularjs

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Overview I’ve been developing Angular for over a year now. As you may know, Angular uses nested scope and often times it is fairly hard to understand code hierarchy. There are tools available to help visualize the nested scope structure, but I found them to be hard to use. I wanted a flow where I […]

Pulling Docker Images on Ubuntu from Private Registery

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I kept running into the following error, when trying to docker pull a docker image from our private repo. Googling the error was not very helpful, and it took me a while to find a solution, even though it is very simple. You just have to let docker know that it’s ok to trust that […]

Notes from 2015 WebRTC Conference Co-Hosted by Google

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Kranky Geek 2015 – WebRTC conference Note: The talk by Google is listed in the order that it appeared. Brief Welcome Tsahi Levi-Levent – bloggeek.me WebRTC very easy vs VOIP etc, nothing beats that. Continuous slow growth, not exponential. A closer look at the WebRTC UX/UI API User interaction for real time communications is way […]

19 Git Tips For Everyday Use

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Table of Contents: Parameters for better logginggit log –oneline –graph Log actual changes in a filegit log -p filename Only Log changes for some specific lines in filegit log -L 1,1:some-file.txt Log changes not yet merged to the parent branchgit log –no-merges master.. Extract a file from another branchgit show some-branch:some-file.js Some notes on rebasinggit […]

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11 Tips to Improve AngularJS Performance

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I am new to Angular (even though I am not new to the web development), so please take everything that I am about to say with a grain of salt. That being said, I watched a lot of talks and read a lot of articles relevant to Angular performance, and this post is the summary […]

Simple HTTPS Test Server Using Node.js

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I needed a simple server to test my HTTPS POST requests. Just like a regular HTTP server, it is super easy to do in Node. Except I needed to add private key and a cert, which is an extra step and was not immediately obvious to me, so I figure I’d share my findings. Step […]