shoover
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Shawn Hoover
Software engineering, energy data
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Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you. I will use this.
Comment · 2 years ago
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.
Comment · 3 years ago
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.
Comment · 6 years ago
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.
Comment · 6 years ago
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.
Comment · 7 years ago
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...
Comment · 7 years ago
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...
Comment · 7 years ago
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...
Comment · 7 years ago
Very nice, thanks for the tutorial. I see that TBLFM saves some coding vs. the gist in [2].
Comment · 7 years ago
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?
Comment · 7 years ago
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?
Comment · 8 years ago
How about writing the warning in the sky, say hourly?
Comment · 8 years ago
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.