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Unescaping strings of stack traces
I often find myself copying strings of Java stack traces which have escaped tabs and newlines (\t\n). Those aren’t fun to read. Here’s a quick Python script I rigged up to grab what’s on the clipboard and format it properly. … Continue reading
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Stripping leading timestamp from GitHub Action logs
GitHub Action logs start with timestamps. To strip them with sed:
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Automating Slack status changes on macOS
In these days of everyone working from home, I really liked the approach to setting Slack status that Alex Hidalgo mentioned on Twitter: I wanted to be able to change status from Alfred. Turns out there’s a handy Applescript bundle … Continue reading
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Stomping a local git branch with the remote
When somebody rebases their PR, my local copy of that branch gets out of sync: ➜ keel git:(fix-paused-events) git status On branch fix-paused-events Your branch and ‘luispollo/fix-paused-events’ have diverged, and have 8 and 16 different commits each, respectively. (use “git … Continue reading
J-Bob from the Little Prover
The Little Prover book references a companion proof assistant tool called J-Bob. I had a hard time getting it running using Racket’s Dracula package, here’s how to do it: Install Racket. Install the Dracula package for Racket. On macOS, I … Continue reading
Generating Dash cheat sheets
I’m a big fan of the Dash documentation tool for macOS. In particular, I often create my own Dash cheat sheets to help me remember commands I frequently forget. I make enough of these that I created a simple Go app named cheat to generate a … Continue reading
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Paste as plain text with Quicksilver
I used to use Plain Clip for converting clipboard contents to plain text before pasting, but now I do it in one step with Quicksilver. I created the following custom trigger: Item: Clipbord Contents Action: Paste as Plain Text Shortcut: alt-v Now … Continue reading
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Lock screen or sleep from Quicksilver
I recently got a new laptop, and I’ve been transferring over all of my settings. I often use Quicksilver to trigger a screen lock or put my laptop to sleep. Here’s how I do it. I use a shell script to put … Continue reading
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Spinnaker & Kubernetes on macOS
Recently I was playing with the open-source release of Spinnaker, the continuous delivery tool that we use inside of Netflix. Spinnaker is designed for deploying apps on cloud backends (e.g., AWS, GCE), but I wanted to run everything entirely on … Continue reading
Go: Pointer to methods
Go: Pointer to methods Sometimes I need a pointer to a method that is not bound to an explicit object. Method pointers are just function pointers where the first argument is the type. Imagine we have a Pet type with … Continue reading
