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Local clones and bundles are cool. I used to use hg bundle for one-off transport workflows back in the day.

An offline cheat sheet of those git commands comes in hand occasionally, too.

shooveron Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

Thank you. I will use this.

shooveron Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, Git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)

Oh. Thanks for the tip. This might make me finally embrace powershell. I’ve been using WSL+zsh+fzf as a Windows CLI for continuity with day job Mac tools, but git CLI performance is only usable inside the WSL file system.

shooveron The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise

Happy to note after a couple years using S-Gear that I tinker with it less than I expected and haven't been seriously tempted to buy an amp. I think having the option to try all the presets is satisfying enough, whereas with amps I would always wonder if just one more pedal purchase would find the magic tone. I still need more guitars, though.

shooveron Mastodon 3.2

It’s a little heavy, but I can say it runs fine in a 1 GB VPS, with the addition of a 1 GB swap file to compile the front end during installation and upgrade.

shooveron Mastodon 3.2

Yep. There are even settings to require a login to view any content, designed for private instances such as for classrooms, which effectively locks down the instance. That’s how I use it for my family.

shooveron Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon

Ah, they have a card in progress for a one-click Digital Ocean install [1]. Fantastic! This is an incredible open source project to watch, not your typical library or system service, but a real, polished app.

Polls functionality is in master, just waiting for release. My kids are going to love this.

[1] - https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/projects/8#card-185452...

shooveron Reasons to Quit Twitter and Facebook and Switch to Mastodon

I set up a private Mastodon server for my family several weeks ago and we're loving it. It's a mighty impressive Rails/React app, very well designed and implemented. I have a few minor UI quibbles based on experience with twitter, but the design is really good, responsive, and snappy.

The kids run Fedilab on hand-me-down, wifi-only Android phones and just go to town with emojis, gifs, and photos. The parents share more of their days with the kids rather than only texting each other.

The setup guide is great--I followed it on a 1GB Vultr VPS and was up and running easily, except for one maddening hurdle, which is that on 1GB server you do need a swap file to successfully precompile JS assets. See [1] for the workaround. I guess this is just normal in 2019. Otherwise all the services run fine with 1GB once compiled.

I wish it supported locking down public posts at the admin level, but that's just my use case. The login system blocks most access, and public posts can be blocked with nginx authentication and tweaking the list of streams flagged public in the streaming service.

[1] https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/5836#issuecomme...

shooveron Pretty PuTTY – Better PuTTY Settings

I spent some time recently cleaning up my Putty sessions. My goal was to control all colors in the Putty settings and have everything look good with tmux, bash, and emacs out of the box. The result was basically what the OP arrived at. It works well as long as the Putty and tmux terminal types match (e.g. putty-256color and tmux-256color, respectively) with the exception of emacs isearch highlighting, which has bad contrasting defaults that also obscure the foreground text of the current match (why do we even bother with cyan and magenta?).

Here's a Ruby script that may be of use to paint over existing sessions using various color schemes gathered from around github and translated to Ruby data. https://gist.github.com/shoover/40a35c07a32de16af9b2f79ca933...

shooveron Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses

Very nice, thanks for the tutorial. I see that TBLFM saves some coding vs. the gist in [2].

shooveron Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses

Interesting use of orgmode as a database. How does it work? Does that use a built in agenda functionality or are you calling lower level org functions to query your agenda files and enumerating the results to generate the table as text in another buffer?

shooveron Vim Is Saving Me Hours of Work When Writing Books and Courses

I often get stuck somewhere between a one-off keyboard macro and finding a pre-written full-blown mode but resist learning the techniques and functions needed to do this powerful in between workflow automation. Care to share a snippet?

shooveron Judge rules California coffee shops must display cancer warnings

How about writing the warning in the sky, say hourly?

shooveron Surgeons urge people to throw out bristle BBQ brushes (2016)

When this article came up last year I thought about grooving a metal spatula with the Dremel, although I've not gotten around to it partly because I have never seen a bristle come off my brush and I always oil the grill with a paper towel and olive oil right before cooking. It's a good idea to quickly make one like this product from scrap wood. Maybe this season.

shooveron Buffett recommends investing in index funds – but many of his employees can’t

Then there is the SEP IRA, which is an IRA with large limits but only your employer can contribute. I’m very thankful for my Fidelity SEP IRA with access to every product a taxable brokerage account would offer (except margin).

That said, while I appreciate full control and low cost, it is a lot of rope and I do wish the system was simpler and less perilous for those who want to just dump money into something reliable and take it out when they retire. Any control at all is perilous given the track record of average investors vs the performance of the funds they go in and out of.

shooveron Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

That’s a good coup. Did it bleed into your family’s other circles outside the family at all?

shooveron WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook

There is certainly object detection available on the cameras and behavioral analysis applied to this information and POS data in aggregation software at the store and chain level for both loss prevention and marketing reasons. Maybe not used in all cases but I was surprised to learn these systems can be worthwhile in convenience stores, gas stations, and fast food restaurants, let alone larger stores like Target.

But you’re probably right that most people don’t think this is happening but only expect the stream is only flashing on a screen in front of a guard in real time and stored on a tape temporarily.

shooveron All HTTP-based services unresponsive

Ah. I wonder if that's why Capital One's login is down. I'm a little surprised their app isn't more resilient, but this is the second multi-hour outage I've noticed in the past couple months.

shooveron Please – A Cross-Language Build System

I have found the learning curve to be very steep. Extension points are several, subtle, and powerful, leveraging heavily not only normal OOP but also python meta programming. It is not out of the question go beyond all that and monkey patch some core class; I’ve seen this recommended by maintainers in some circumstances.

The docs are up front that waf is not a build system but a build system toolkit. For example, there is a demo that uses makefiles as the build language and runs them in waf. Another demo requires no build file but just finds the source files and builds them. But I have yet to see any external project released that says, “This is a build system... built on the waf build system toolkit,” like the Software Construction Toolkit was built on scons. Perhaps the toolkit is so close to being a build system that people just use it as is and require only small customizations, which are kept in their projects.

shooveron Please – A Cross-Language Build System

Downvote? Both points were stated in the FAQ. I did extrapolate from Go to the installation point.

shooveron Please – A Cross-Language Build System

I mean simple in terms of the theoretical possibility of a single binary vs. any form of local compilation, packaging, or dependencies. In practice, I didn’t check, maybe they depend on other native libraries and installation is more than downloading a single executable.

shooveron Please – A Cross-Language Build System

It's tuned to the preferences of another company; if you prefer their taste on the finer points, that's one. Secondly, it's written in Go, so installation should be simpler.

shooveron Please – A Cross-Language Build System

waf continues to be the underappreciated gem in this space: high level build language supporting many languages and tools, cross platform, implemented and extensible in Python, nothing to install (except Python), and fast.

shooveron The dangerous downsides of perfectionism

“They give up more easily. They have quite avoidant coping tendencies when things can't be perfect.” That, of course, hinders them from the very success that they want to achieve. In his 60-plus studies focusing on athletes, for example, Hill has found that the single biggest predictor of success in sports is simply practice. But if practice isn’t going well, perfectionists might stop. It makes me think of my own childhood peppered with avoiding (or starting and quitting) almost every sport there was. If I wasn’t adept at something almost from the get-go, I didn’t want to continue – especially if there was an audience watching.

Ugh. Been there, done that. I remember skipping the first year of fast pitch baseball because I was sure I’d never be able to hit the ball. It simply wasn’t true and can only have set me back when rejoining the following year.

I assumed perfectionism was generational or at least cultural. It’s distressing to see it’s widespread and increasing. The studies put a fine focus on the need to get smarter and model healthier responses to mistakes for the next generation.

shooveron Manafort Left an Incriminating Paper Trail Converting PDFs to Word

Well, that's one piece of information the investigators got somehow, but we don't know where the evidence started (I hope we find out if it goes to trial). Anti-money laundering laws and foreign bank account reporting requirements must be a big help for the feds to notice things and provide a basis to subpoena records for further investigation. Those laws seem to be ratcheting up lately.

shooveron Building a backup bee: A novel replacement for the embattled honeybee

Only about a dozen of the 20,000 or so bee species worldwide are managed. After the honeybee, Apis mellifera, only three species are widely used in the U.S.: two cannot be woken from their winter’s sleep in time for almond bloom, and the third is banned for open field use in California.

How does a species of bees get banned?

shooveron Google Calendar should prevent spam by default

Ugh. Google Calendar reminders are handled perfectly on Android. You get a notification, and it stays there every time you look at your phone until you clear it. On iOS, even with Google Calendar installed, you get the notification one time (as if for a one-time event) and then it disappears into the app.

I assume iOS Reminders work better than this, but I'm dependent on Google Calendar. I have not figured out a workaround for notifications since switching and I am now a less reliable person.

Why does the Google Calendar app not manage iOS reminder notifications as it does on Android? Have I horked a notification setting unawares?

shooveron Why It’s So Hard to Actually Work in Shared Offices

And not to mention general sleep and mood issues. It doesn't take many days in a row with a couple evening beers for me to get cranky. I'm sure alcohol affects everyone differently, but "flowing" just sounds like a recipe for mass irritability.

shooveron Google removes ‘view image’ button from search results

Good. I am going to need something to help my kids print coloring pages cleanly.

shooveron Who Killed the Junior Developer?

Eh, sounds like smart preparation to play the game on its terms. Did those questions end up being seriously relevant to the work? If so, then you prepared yourself better for the job by learning the answers. If not, well, then maybe it's the interviewers who weren't so honest.