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GitKraken on Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition
Solving an error with GitKraken after install from the PPA
Frank Villasenor
Exploration
Concepts to Implementations: Promise
The Promise object represents the eventual completion (or failure) of an asynchronous operation and its resulting value. -MDN Put simply[1], it is a means to reorganize asynchronous (concurrently executing) code to reduce nesting among other reasons. Over the next couple of posts, I'm going to give a brief primer
Open Source Software
Bit Masks
Bit masks are a computer science concept; in a nutshell, they represent options which can be combined in a variety of ways. A very basic example colors. Blue and Green combined create yellow. This can be represented in bit masks. The following example is sourced from the Bit field article
GitHub
Bouncy - Open Source Code Exploration
Bouncy is a tool to "pipe raw http traffic from [an] incoming http request to a another remote end point." It's an interesting tool and, for me, a useful find. Not to reveal too much but this site is running on Node among other technologies. I think this tool has
Open Source Software
Using git to Contribute to OSS
There are plenty of resources out there to learn how to use git... but I'd say a good percentage of those focus on using git from git init and on -- that is, starting a new repository from scratch. This post is going to focus on using git to contribute
Open Source Software Concepts
What is a Pull Request?
A pull request is an important concept in collaborating with others' on GitHub. When you finish work and you want to share it with the project's owner, you issue what is called a "pull request". This is you asking the project maintainer to review your contribution and pull it into
Open Source Software
What is a "contribute.md"
In most established open source projects, you should find some sort of information regarding contributing to that given project. This could be called contribute.md or CONTRIBUTING.md or is simply a section in the repository's Readme file. If you intend to contribute to a specific open source project, ensure
Open Source Software
Tools of Open Source List
This article covers common tools and concepts used in open source. This site is aimed at getting folks into open source, and this article acts as a primer.
Tools of Open Source
List globally installed package for NPM
I found myself in a situation where I needed to list all of the global npm packages I had installed on a (windows) server. The command, it turned out, was quite simple: npm ls --global npm ls itself will list the packages installed locally which can be helpful unto itself.
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Getting Started
I'm pleased that you've found this blog as quickly as you did. Unfortunately, content is quite limited right now. I invite you to check out the about page to see what this blog and website is all about. Meanwhile, I kindly but regretfully ask that you check back later. Life,