It’s been a couple of months since I started detoxing from caffeine, and I wanted to share how it’s been going. For most of last year, my mornings started with a can of Celsius — my favorite energy drink brand — and usually didn’t end there. At work, caffeine is everywhere. Cold teas, sodas, and even decaf from Bilgewater (Riot’s campus version of Starbucks). I’d often grab one or two more throughout the day.
Caffeine was just part of my routine. About 200mg every morning to kick things off, then whatever I felt like grabbing later in the day. Before Celsius, it was regular coffee, or the occasional Red Bull. It became normal. Almost invisible.
This post was composed on March 20, 2018, and I never published it. I thought it was interesting looking back.
March 20, 2018
That is where all the money is at, right? Strive for what you want to be for your career, if all fails, use software development as a fallback career? Work for Google? Maybe Apple? How about Amazon? Or Facebook?
I get frustrated when I browse a file from a git repository only to realize its history was lost due to improper renaming/moving of the file. It seems common for developers to manually rename/move a file in a git repository by using regular file system commands rather than git commands.
For example, let’s look at the following:
$ mkdir test
$ cd test
$ git init
$ echo "hi" > test.txt
$ git add test.txt
$ git commit -m"add test.txt"
$ mv test.txt test2.txt
$ git status
So what have we here? We start off by creating a new directory called test. We then go into the directory and start a new local git repository using git init. Next we create a new file called test.txt that contains simple text “hi”. test.txt is then added and committed to the repository. Finally, we use the mv command to rename the file to test2.txt.
git status shows us the result:
Result of git status
This is not what we were expecting. This shows that the original file test.txt was deleted and now there is an untracked new file called test2.txt, when it really should say that test.txt was renamed to test2.txt.
Btw, this goes for moving files as well. For example, rather than renaming the file, if it was moved to, say, a different folder, e.g. newFolder/test.txt, the result would be the same.
So how can this be solved? It’s actually not far off from the steps above. Let’s start with backtracking by reverting the rename:
I was routinely upgrading my packages on Homebrew when I ran into the following error:
$ brew upgrade
==> Upgrading 1 outdated package, with result:
homebrew/php/php70 7.0.4
==> Upgrading homebrew/php/php70
==> Downloading https://php.net/get/php-7.0.4.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/php70-7.0.4
==> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/php70/7.0.4 --localstatedir=/usr/local/var --sysconfdir=/usr/local/etc/php/7.0 --with-config-file-path=/usr/local/etc/php/7.0 --wi
Last 15 lines from /Users/johnro/Library/Logs/Homebrew/php70/01.configure:
checking for OpenSSL support... yes
checking for Kerberos support... /usr
checking whether to use system default cipher list instead of hardcoded value... no
checking for krb5-config... /usr/bin/krb5-config
checking for RAND_egd... no
checking for pkg-config... no
checking for OpenSSL version... >= 0.9.8
checking for CRYPTO_free in -lcrypto... yes
checking for SSL_CTX_set_ssl_version in -lssl... yes
checking for PCRE library to use... bundled
checking whether to enable the SQLite3 extension... yes
checking bundled sqlite3 library... yes
checking for ZLIB support... yes
checking if the location of ZLIB install directory is defined... no
configure: error: Cannot find libz
Of course, I did the first thing I always do when running into an error, Google it! And I found this link that suggested running the following:
I’ve been checking out Apache Drill and everything was fine, until today. I tried running Drill in embedded mode, per usual, when I ran into the following exception:
Error: Failure in connecting to Drill: org.apache.drill.exec.rpc.RpcException: CONNECTION : io.netty.channel.ConnectTimeoutException: connection timed out: /192.168.21.62:31010 (state=,code=0)
java.sql.SQLException: Failure in connecting to Drill: org.apache.drill.exec.rpc.RpcException: CONNECTION : io.netty.channel.ConnectTimeoutException: connection timed out: /192.168.21.62:31010
at org.apache.drill.jdbc.impl.DrillConnectionImpl.<init>(DrillConnectionImpl.java:159)
at org.apache.drill.jdbc.impl.DrillJdbc41Factory.newDrillConnection(DrillJdbc41Factory.java:64)
at org.apache.drill.jdbc.impl.DrillFactory.newConnection(DrillFactory.java:69)
at net.hydromatic.avatica.UnregisteredDriver.connect(UnregisteredDriver.java:126)
at org.apache.drill.jdbc.Driver.connect(Driver.java:72)
at sqlline.DatabaseConnection.connect(DatabaseConnection.java:167)
at sqlline.DatabaseConnection.getConnection(DatabaseConnection.java:213)
at sqlline.Commands.connect(Commands.java:1083)
at sqlline.Commands.connect(Commands.java:1015)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at sqlline.ReflectiveCommandHandler.execute(ReflectiveCommandHandler.java:36)
at sqlline.SqlLine.dispatch(SqlLine.java:742)
at sqlline.SqlLine.initArgs(SqlLine.java:528)
at sqlline.SqlLine.begin(SqlLine.java:596)
at sqlline.SqlLine.start(SqlLine.java:375)
at sqlline.SqlLine.main(SqlLine.java:268)
Caused by: org.apache.drill.exec.rpc.RpcException: CONNECTION : io.netty.channel.ConnectTimeoutException: connection timed out: /192.168.21.62:31010
at org.apache.drill.exec.client.DrillClient$FutureHandler.connectionFailed(DrillClient.java:448)
at org.apache.drill.exec.rpc.BasicClient$ConnectionMultiListener$ConnectionHandler.operationComplete(BasicClient.java:237)
at org.apache.drill.exec.rpc.BasicClient$ConnectionMultiListener$ConnectionHandler.operationComplete(BasicClient.java:200)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.DefaultPromise.notifyListener0(DefaultPromise.java:680)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.DefaultPromise.notifyListeners0(DefaultPromise.java:603)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.DefaultPromise.notifyListeners(DefaultPromise.java:563)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.DefaultPromise.tryFailure(DefaultPromise.java:424)
at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioChannel$AbstractNioUnsafe$1.run(AbstractNioChannel.java:214)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.PromiseTask$RunnableAdapter.call(PromiseTask.java:38)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledFutureTask.java:120)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor.runAllTasks(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:357)
at io.netty.channel.nio.NioEventLoop.run(NioEventLoop.java:357)
at io.netty.util.concurrent.SingleThreadEventExecutor$2.run(SingleThreadEventExecutor.java:111)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: io.netty.channel.ConnectTimeoutException: connection timed out: /192.168.21.62:31010
at io.netty.util.concurrent.AbstractFuture.get(AbstractFuture.java:47)
at org.apache.drill.exec.rpc.BasicClient$ConnectionMultiListener$ConnectionHandler.operationComplete(BasicClient.java:213)
... 12 more
Caused by: io.netty.channel.ConnectTimeoutException: connection timed out: /192.168.21.62:31010
at io.netty.channel.nio.AbstractNioChannel$AbstractNioUnsafe$1.run(AbstractNioChannel.java:212)
... 6 more
Pro tip: when using CSS to change the state of an icon, whether a hover state or a disabled state, make sure to put all different states of the icon in the same file, then use CSS to determine what position of the file to use to display the background of the icon.
jQuery UI icons
The above doesn’t really cover what I mean, but it proves my point. The benefit of loading icons from the same file: no hiccup for when icons are loaded for different states of the icons.
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