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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
Getting timestamp from v1 uuid
Getting timestamp from v1 uuid Translated from J.B. Langston’s Converting TimeUUID Strings to Dates Java version to Python: import arrow import fileinput import uuid def main(): for line in fileinput.input(): line = line.rstrip() value = uuid.UUID(line) epoch_millis = (value.time – … Continue reading
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