Gabor Javorszky

git

Sign my commits, git!

How to configure git to sign commits with ssh, how to verify them locally, and how to make sure GitHub also verifies the commits with that key.

books

Book Review: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

My thoughts on the content of the book summarized into a single blog post.

advanced

What the hell is <true/> in a plist!?

This is a story of xml. Or rather Apple’s plist files, which happen to be xml format. And me going down a very brief rabbit hole of figuring out why certain things are in xml files and how to find out. Spoiler, it’s all about the DTD, or data type definition.

rant

Please read the manual!

Reading manuals that come with your devices is good for your health and will boost your confidence by some amount. At least when it comes to operating them. You might find surprising info there!

Use your ssh key with a passphrase inside a docker container

The number of articles, stack overflow questions, and GitHub gists I had to go through only to figure out why each and every one of them did not work is just astounding only to find the solution at the “oh my god, obviously” place... Background! “Why are you even spending

life

Sometimes you’re just wrong

Sometimes you're just wrong. It is a difficult feeling, but for the sake of yourself and everyone you talk to, learn how to be wrong.

games

ARPGs are not as fun as they make it seem

ARPGs aren't as infinitely replayable as they would have you believe because there's a Wall there. It might be similar in the tech industry as well.

advanced

Traces and logs for local development and docker

How I organize my utility services, like log and trace collection, for modularity and reusability during local development

ethics

In house ethics teams are useless

In-house ethics, or accessibility, or diversity and inclusion teams are for the most part useless and can't do their job they were designed to do. This is why I think that, and what I think might work better.

design

I tried to replace my shower hose

How wanting to replace a shower hose lead me down a rabbit hole that ended with me not wanting to replace the shower hose. And also an epiphany about the computer systems I build.

I no longer have ssh keys on my machine

1password can keep track of and hold your ed25519 and rsa ssh keys. I still ran into permission denied errors. Here's how I fixed the configs to make it work.

ux

Light and Dark mode are not enough

Light and dark modes in operating systems and websites are usually implemented with pure black on pure white background, or the other way around. Sometimes both of those make reading hard.

opinion

What part of your app is your app?

Your entire app is not your entire app. Here's how I think about the different parts of an app, and how to separate the core from the accessories.

go

On interfaces and composition

Abstractions are good. Golang has interfaces. The article talks about how to use interfaces to make code more maintainable and flexible.

go

Work in a team? Have 4 groups of imports in your go files

Do you want to organise your Go imports into 4 groups instead of 3? Here's how you can do it with a new version of gci and golangci-lint

stripe

Integrate Stripe dashboard from your site

Stripe's customer portal is awesome, but you need to give them a link to click on to get there. This walks you through what you need to make that happen.

go

Golang style linters, multiline statements, and blocks with whitespace

The golang ci lint linters whitespace, lll, and wsl can put you in a cycle of warnings about your code quality. By adding a comment to the right place you can appease all three.

Should I pay for that SaaS?

You’re looking for a way to do something, and you find multiple solutions to the problem. Let’s take blogging as an example You find Ghost [https://ghost.org], and to your delight, it’s available open source. You can download it and host it wherever you want it

go

Use gci in Goland as a file watcher

gci is an amazing tool. It takes the guesswork out of organising your go file’s imports, and the command line version works as expected. Here's how to set it up in Goland.

opinion

The projects that don’t get built

Before working on projects, there are a few questions that we should all ask: can it be abused, how can it be made safe, and does it need to be built in the first place?

go

how parseTime in sql connections work with time.Time in Go

Working with time values in Go is not straightforward, and using a database to store them with automatic parsing can be even more fun! Here are my thoughts on it.

review

Book review: 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

In mid-2019 I was given the book "15 invaluable laws of growth" to read. I reviewed it then. I post my review now.

hr

Should remote companies pay differently based on where you live?

Reasons why remote companies should not pay people differently based on where they live.

terminal

Customize your ZSH prompt with this one weird trick!

I like having the last commit's sha in the command line. Gives me instant access to the info. I'll walk you through how I made zsh to show it to me.

stripe

Stripe Connect, and what it means for you!

Stripe Connect is a convenient way to set up plugins with a few clicks. It also lets the account you're connecting to see all your data.