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Hello! I wanted to tell you all about an open source project I’m working on that I’m pretty excited about. It’s called Tract and it’s a Hugo theme for large documentation projects. I aim to release version 0.1.0 by the end of 2019. In the meantime, check out the current home page or a sample docs page .
Summary: jq rocks for speedy JSON mangling. Use it to make powerful git clean filters, e.g. when stripping out unwanted cached-data from Jupyter notebooks. You can find the documentation of git 'clean' and 'smudge' filters buried in the page on git-attributes , or see my example setup below.
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Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
I speak very fast. It’s like the words are piled up in my mouth and I can’t say one without the rest tumbling out. Through my whole life people have told me to slow down, speak more clearly, and enunciate. I can do it if I concentrate but I quickly relapse into gushing out words. As I now give lots of conference…
Comprehensive overview of existing tools, strategies and thoughts on interacting with your data
How I really wanted Spacemacs everywhere and my wish came true thanks to Docker
Notes on simplifying daily life by stripping unnecessary apps, disabling notifications, and trimming subscriptions to reduce decision fatigue.
I recently switched laptops, which I was resisting vehemently. But it got to the point where I was considering duct tape, and I was advised to make the move now. What I wanted to do was hold off buying another Apple MacBook until my Puri.sm Librem phone shipped, and if…
Long ago, I wrote git-subtree to work around some of my annoyances with git submodules. I've learned a lot since then, and the development e...
Flan Scan is a thin wrapper around Nmap that converts this popular open source tool into a vulnerability scanner with an easy deployment.
This article will provide the reader with a brief overview for a number of different Linux commands. A special emphasis will be placed on explaining how each command can be used in the context of performing data science tasks. The goal will be to convince the reader that each of these commands can be extremely useful…
What docker users need to know to move from Docker to Podman and Buildah and the advantages of doing so. Developers/operators can easily move to Podman, do all the fun tasks that they are familiar
Read up about how you can cool off your Raspberry Pi 4 and drop a few degrees. I compare several cooling solutions including firmware updates.
Jupyter Notebooks has been the significant player in the interactive ...
The standard for browsing the web over a text-=based terminal is Lynx, right? ...
<p>For years I’ve noodled around with various setups for a Python development environment. A couple of years ago <a href="https://jacobian.org/2018/feb/21/python-environment-2018/">I wrote about a setup I finally liked</a>; this is an update to that post.</p> <p>Bad news: this stuff still isn’t stable, and…
The Stripe CLI is a developer tool that helps you build, test, and manage your Stripe integration right from the terminal.
A typography blog about the history of wide sentence spacing, aka "how many spaces after a period between sentences".
GitHub Codespaces gets you up and coding faster with fully configured, secure cloud development environments native to GitHub.
