Blog Posts

November 2022

• 2022-11-13

  Bartender 4 – Take control of your Menu bar

  Bartender 4 – Take control of your Menu bar –

  #apple
• 2022-11-13

  Gallery

  Gallery –This is a gallery of all sorts of interesting visualizations you can do with the GraphViz package.

  #programming
• 2022-11-13

  Wrapping Your Head Around Mastodon – K²R

  Wrapping Your Head Around Mastodon – K²R –More introduction to Mastodon. Of course, if you are reading this then you are already on there! “I’ve been on Mastodon for several years now, and it’s almost completely replaced Twitter for me.It is a shift in perspective on how social media works, so here are a few tips to help wrap your head around it.”

• 2022-11-13

  The macOS Ventura Feature that Changes the Way I Work

  The macOS Ventura Feature that Changes the Way I Work –[Pito: Ok, for me, it’s confusing and overly busy. But maybe I haven’t figured it out yet…] I’ve tested Stage Manager for 3 months on the macOS Ventura beta and haven’t turned it off since.

  #apple
• 2022-11-13

  How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT – K²R

  How to Post to Mastodon From Anything Using IFTTT – K²R –I finally managed to hook up IFTTT to Mastodon to auto-post from another site! I use IFTTT as glue for linking several services together including sharing interesting links from Pocket when I’m offline: I can add a tag in the app on my tablet, and then when it syncs that tag up to the cloud, […]

• 2022-11-13

  GraphViz Examples and Tutorial

  GraphViz Examples and Tutorial –I hope you know GraphViz. It’s a wonderful simple tool for creating diagrams. An interface as well as documentation to the GraphViz program and DSL

  #programming

October 2022

• 2022-10-31

  Shell Script Best Practices — The Sharat’s

  Shell Script Best Practices — The Sharat’s –This article is about a few quick thumb rules I use when writing shell scripts that I’ve come to appreciate over the years. Very opinionated….

  #linux
• 2022-10-31

  Modern Alternatives to Some of the Classic Linux Commands – It’s FOSS

  Modern Alternatives to Some of the Classic Linux Commands – It’s FOSS –Here are some faster, better and feature rich alternative command line tools to replace the decades old legacy Linux commands.

  #linux
• 2022-10-27

  Google Sheets – 🟧Heystack

  Google Sheets – 🟧Heystack –Discover the best public Google docs

• 2022-10-26

  Reinvent the Wheel

  Reinvent the Wheel –About the virtue of building things, even if you can get them iff the shelf. By building, and maybe only by building, do you really learn and understand how it works. AWM #97: There’s really no other option 🛞

• 2022-10-23

  Rosetta Code

  Rosetta Code –Rosetta Code is a programming chrestomathy site. The idea is to present solutions to the same task in as many different languages as possible, to demonstrate how…

  #programming
• 2022-10-23

  GitHub Copilot investigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick

  GitHub Copilot investigation · Joseph Saveri Law Firm & Matthew Butterick –Very interesting review of github copilot, open source and the law.

  #legal #ai
• 2022-10-23

  Welcome to Hypothesis! — Hypothesis 6.56.3 documentation

  Welcome to Hypothesis! — Hypothesis 6.56.3 documentation –

  #python
• 2022-10-22

  Home – Meet Edgar

  Home – Meet Edgar –Social Media automatic posting tool. Seems popular with the cognizenti

• 2022-10-20

  Heroku Alternatives for Python-based Applications

  Heroku Alternatives for Python-based Applications –In this article, you’ll learn what the best Heroku alternatives (and their pros and cons) are.

  #python
• 2022-10-20

  Building a Rails CI pipeline with GitHub Actions

  Building a Rails CI pipeline with GitHub Actions –GitHub Actions is an automation platform that you run directly from inside a repository. We can use it as a testing CI/CD pipeline and keep everything close to the code.

  #ruby
• 2022-10-17

  Learn SQL: Aggregate Functions

  Learn SQL: Aggregate Functions –Aggregate functions are a very powerful tool in databases. They serve the same purpose as their equivalents in MS Excel

• 2022-10-17

  Learn SQL: How to Write a Complex SELECT Query

  Learn SQL: How to Write a Complex SELECT Query –Do you need to write a complex SELECT query? In this article, we’ve tried to create a recipe for you.

• 2022-10-16

  A Nibble of Content-Defined Chunking

  A Nibble of Content-Defined Chunking –A great explanation of a really cool algorithm. “How de-duplicated, incremental file transfer works “

  #computer-science
• 2022-10-13

  Testing Rails Apps with FactoryBot and MiniTest

  Testing Rails Apps with FactoryBot and MiniTest –This blog post looks at testing rails apps with FactoryBot and MiniTest – the default test framework which ships with Rails….

  #ruby