I like having a system-wide keyboard shortcut that activates some form of text editor. That allows me to press the shortcut, type whatever I have in mind, navigate away from the editor, and get back to what I was doing. …

I was curious about who was creating the highest number of PRs in a specific git repo, and I couldn’t find a good way to figure it out. So here’s what I did. First off, I had to get the count of PRs by author and date. That took me…

I learned about this recently from this blog post, and it seems like a really robust tool to have in my tool belt: [M]ost of the site content lives in a SQLite database, and I use custom Jinja templates to implement the site’s different pages. This is effectively a variant…

dateutils Dateutils are a bunch of tools that revolve around fiddling with dates and times in the command line with a strong…www.fresse.org These look incredibly useful, but I am most excited that the project website includes comprehensive examples for each tool! I can’t count the number of times I found something that looked useful but which gave me basically no idea of how to use it or what it could really do (I’m looking at you, q).

Command Line Interface Guidelines An open-source guide to help you write better command-line programs, taking traditional UNIX principles and updating…clig.dev I am excited to see this reference. I’ve long felt that the most important part of building a tool for people to use is thinking through how they’re going to use it, and even considering what you would want out of a tool if you were supposed to use it…

I purchased a Microsoft Surface Go recently. The other day, it blue-screened and refused to start up again (cycling through the “Automatic Repair” screen and failing repeatedly). …

I have a long-standing interest in personal knowledge management (PKM). I’ve tried lots and lots of different tools, and I recently learned about Joplin and decided to try it out. Requirements, or “Is that too much to ask?” There’s not a lot of specific things I want out of a PKM tool, but I’ve had a hard time…

Recently, I wanted to create epubs of some reading material, specifically some Wordpress-hosted blogs. Rather than implementing a separate script for each blog I wanted an epub from, I wrote a tool to figure it all out for me: trivialpub. Usage is simple: provide a YAML config file, such as: …