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Pasting HTML from the macOS clipboard
I like to write decision tables in Google Sheets. If you copy to the clipboard, it copies to HTML. Alas, pbpaste doesn’t support pasting HTML, and the text representation throws out too much info. There’s a nice answer on Stack … Continue reading
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WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred
If you’re running a newer version of the JDK (9 or greater), you might have started to see warnings that look like this: WARNING: An illegal reflective access operation has occurred WARNING: Illegal reflective access by org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedClass (file:/Users/myname/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.codehaus.groovy/groovy/2.5.11/4d8f25c5da08af46fb204fd493ec894699a3f4e8/groovy-2.5.11.jar) to method … Continue reading
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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
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
