Try these Google Docs Tricks 🪄
Try these Google Docs Tricks 🪄 –There are a few really good ones here! “11 quick tips and hidden features”
Blog Posts
All my blog posts and articles
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September 2022
Duplication – Code with Jason
Duplication – Code with Jason –Duplication can pose serious maintenance problems to codebases. Developers’ attempts to fix duplication can even sometimes introduce new problems. Certain popular approaches to addressing duplication exist, such as the rule of three and the refrain duplication is cheaper than the wrong abstraction. I think these advice snippets treat duplication in an oversimplified way that doesn’t […]
August 2022
CodeSee – Bring visibility to your codebase
CodeSee – Bring visibility to your codebase –CodeSee is the world’s first solution for Continuous Code Understanding. CodeSee helps development teams visually understand how your large-scale codebase works, document it, and collaborate continuously.
VisiData
VisiData –Command-line interactive multitool for tabular data.VisiData is an interactive multitool for tabular data. It combines the clarity of a spreadsheet, the efficiency of the terminal, and the power of Python, into a lightweight utility which can handle millions of rows with ease.
Zulip: Slack alternative Chat for distributed teams
Zulip: Slack alternative Chat for distributed teams –Now that slack changed its pricing model it may be time to switch. “Zulip combines the immediacy of real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones”
Everything you need to know
Everything you need to know –A quirky guide for people joining this particular HCI research lab: “This material should take you a week to go through. It’ll help you in doing HCI work and research in general. 1) Start with a talk by Richard Hamming called You and Your Research about picking research problems: https://ift.tt/2qemNPJ then look over…
Thinking in Hotwire: Progressive Enhancement
Thinking in Hotwire: Progressive Enhancement –Your mental model for Hotwire should be progressive enhancement: start with the basics and layer on Turbo Frames, Streams, and Stimulus as you build more.
Open-source data multitool | VisiData
Open-source data multitool | VisiData – A very sophisticated tool for working with tabular data. It’s actually a cli and is handy. But I found it a little hard to learn. Still good to be aware of it!
SSH Tips and Tricks | Carlos Becker
SSH Tips and Tricks | Carlos Becker –Since I joined Charm, I’ve been working and learning more about SSH, and I thought I would share a few quick tips and tricks with you. Forward Yubikey Agent If you use a Yubikey (you should), you can use it in your remotes by having the key in a SSH agent and forwarding it. To manage the agent, I strongly recommend yubikey-agent. You can then forward it in your ~/.ssh/config like the following:
Marta
Marta – A sophisticated new FInder replacement or at least supplement. Seems to be a little like Norton Commander coming back. Probably not as good though !
Read the Docs tutorial — Read the Docs user documentation 8.4.0 documentation
Read the Docs tutorial — Read the Docs user documentation 8.4.0 documentation –A very popular way to create free documentation web sites. I haven’t looked at it much. I use gitbook. I was wondering what the difference is, and I don’t see much
Polar plots with Matplotlib
Polar plots with Matplotlib –If you need a polar plot, you need one! They are tricky to do but these examples are helfpul!
How Kubernetes Reinvented Virtual Machines (in a good sense)
How Kubernetes Reinvented Virtual Machines (in a good sense) –Pretty good high level explanation of Kubernetes concepts. “How Virtual Machines have been used to deploy services. What old problems containers solve and what new problems create. How Kubernetes used containers to recreate Virtual Machines?”
Fzf: A tool that will transform your CLI life
Fzf: A tool that will transform your CLI life –I’m a CLI junkie, addicted to Vim motions, and never miss an opportunity to bring those two in to any part of my workflow. Naturally, I…
Excel is Pretty Dang Cool
Excel is Pretty Dang Cool –Excel is the new visual APL: “It’s like discovering a treasure chest under my kitchen sink”
It’s Time to Say Goodbye to These Obsolete Python Libraries
It’s Time to Say Goodbye to These Obsolete Python Libraries –p With every Python release, there are new modules being added and new and better ways of doing things get introduced. We all get used to using the good …
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Makefiles –Im just in the process of leveling up my make knowledge. Ive read many many makefiles. But the last time i studied how it works?
Python and TOML: New Best Friends – Real Python
Python and TOML: New Best Friends – Real Python –TOML is a configuration file format that’s becoming increasingly popular in the Python community. In this tutorial, you’ll learn the syntax of TOML and explore how you can work with TOML files in your own projects.
A Developer’s Guide to Terraform – Semaphore
A Developer’s Guide to Terraform – Semaphore –Terraform is one of the most popular IaC tools available. Learn its benefits and how to use it. This is a nice medium level explanation.
Price guide for research poster printing
Price guide for research poster printing –Poster printing services and pricing guide.