For meetings, I switched to typing my notes. I figured out some tricks to regain some of the flexibility handwritten notes offer. When I jot down questions I want to ask, I begin the line with ?? ?? How does this affect our stonk prices? And when there’s a point I want to make, I…
Read More Use ?? and !! when typing notesThis article was making the rounds this week: did.txt file. Lately, I’ve been having trouble remember what I did, so the timing of that post was perfect. In the past, I’ve been able to do this in git like git reflog –since yesterday –decorate –author $(git whoami), but these days I’m in many Git repos…
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[update: This post has been corrected, thanks to my commenters for your feedback] Every Django management command gets the verbosity option for free. You may recognize this: optional arguments: -h, –help show this help message and exit -v {0,1,2,3}, –verbosity {0,1,2,3} Verbosity level; 0=minimal output, 1=normal output, 2=verbose output, 3=very verbose output We rarely use…
Read More Django management commands and verbositySo tonight I decided I’ve been putting it off far enough, and started my first Sphinx documentation project. Read The Docs’s Getting Started guide wasn’t bad, but it really bothered me that there wasn’t a good way to autobuild the docs.
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Here are some winter tips from a Texan who was in Chicago that one time: Don’t layer. If it’s below 40 degrees F (4 degrees C), forget layers. Just wear a T-shirt and your good winter coat. That is seriously all you need. Don’t have a coat warm enough? Well, then you should probably layer.…
Read More Winter TipsThere are lots of websites and youtube videos all trying to tell you how to mod GTA IV. Unfortunately, they’re almost all out of date, or youtube videos. I’m using steam installed Grand Theft Auto IV 1.0.7 A decent guide: http://www.gta-modding.com/iv/tutorials Prepping the Game Install This: Xliveless (v0.999b7 md5: F7FD7512F6AC8959CDDA6A2B2E014C68) http://www.gtaforums.com/?showtopic=388658 SparkIV (v0.7.0b1) The original…
Read More GTA IV 1.0.7 bootstrap guideIf you’re doing any development in Python, odds are you’re using virtualenv. And if you’re using virtualenv, odds are you’re using virtualenvwrapper. I came up with a few tricks to make my life easier, and I thought I ought to share them. And as a disclaimer: although I am obsessed with discovering best practices, these…
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