I like fabric. A lot. Its a easy to use tool that continually makes my life simpler, and my projects smarter and more automated. Not much out there can really say that. At least nothing I use daily, without noticing, and dependably.
I used to use vellum, and that did what I needed. But fabric being [...]
The other day, I gave a presentation to the Ohio State University, Open Source Club. It was on a smattering of command line utilities that I use on a daily basis, as well as a quick intro to regex usage.
It is all accessible on my site here and in pdf form.
It was pretty long, and [...]
The other day @shuckins mentioned that
I’m finding the MX Revolution quite awesome except that I really miss my scroll wheel click button.
This was an issue that I had when I started using this mouse as well. The key feature of the mouse being that a middle click will switch the scroll wheel from smooth [...]
Newbeuter is my preferred way to browse RSS feeds. Its a great CLI app that is ‘Mutt Of Feed Readers’, and being a user of mutt I love this app for being so similar. I wanted to use the newest version of newbeuter, because recently I have been on a kick to get all of [...]
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So I’ve been attempting to make a suite of cli scripts for work. I recently discovered the multiprocessing module for python, and really liked its simplicity, and started using it, with great success. Everything was faster.
This then spurred me to take the scripts that were for the most part, copy common-ish bits and then modify [...]