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Private Git Repository on Any Computer

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With popularity of Github and many other competing offerings, it’s easy to overlook how simple it is to set up (unlimited) private repos on any network connected computer. For example, I run this blog on a cheap instance of Linode, where $5 a month get’s you 20Gb SSD storage. But you don’t have to pay […]

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AMP Link Button and Speaking Up

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Four month ago I noticed something weird with Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project and wrote a blog post outlining my concerns. I first submitted the post to Reddit where it was not received well. People told me to “Read the Fucking Manual”. I remember telling my wife that I didn’t understand why people on […]

Why Uber May Win After All

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Introduction Three days ago I wrote about my interview at Uber. I did not think of Uber as a great place to work. People that I’ve met seemed young, smart and overworked to the point of exhaustion. From my conversation with recruiter I took away that Uber had no problem being the lowest bidder and […]

My Interview at Uber

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A little less than a year ago I had the “pleasure” to interview at Uber. I didn’t know much about the company at the time, other than that they were big. I was looking for work already and Uber’s recruiter reached out to me, so I figured to give it a shot. Up to this […]

How to Copy One File from Vagrant Virtual Machine to Local Host

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Step 1. Find what port Vagrant is connected to by running vagrant port The output Will look as follow: Indicating that Vagrant is running on port 2200 Step 2. Get the absolute path for the file that you want to copy i.e. /vagrant/some-file.txt You can get it by ssh’ing into the machine and locating the […]

AMP Toolbar Now Has a Button to View and Copy the Original URL

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This is another follow up to my 4 Month old blog post – how you may be loosing your mobile traffic to Google AMP pages. Note: AMP stands for Accelerate Mobile Pages – and it’s a roughly year old project from Google that aims to optimize mobile browsing experience by providing a free cache/CDN layer, […]

How to use git log command line parameters

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Git comes with a very power history viewing command – git log, which supports a number of command line parameters. This options are very powerful, especially when used in combination. Here are the ones that I use the most: –author=“Alex Kras” – Only show commits made by a certain author –name-only – Only show names […]

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Our Iraqi Interpreter Sammy

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I was born in the former Soviet Union in the early 80s. When I was 16, my family immigrated to Israel. A year or so later, my mother won a Green-card. We moved to San Francisco in June of 2001, 2 months before 9/11. Six months after 9/11, I enlisted in the United States Marine […]