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Jira old issue view + qutebrowser config setting

To redirect an issue to the old view, add ?oldIssueView=true.

Added this to config.py:

config.bind('<Ctrl-J>', ':open {url}?oldIssueView=true')

Ubuntu screen apt-get

(18:03:38/10185) sudo apt install screen
# ...
Suggested packages:
  byobu | screenie | iselect
The following NEW packages will be installed:

… did I just get an advert for a competitor when installing screen? :) Since when does ubuntu do this and where can I read more about it?

Deutsch / German

“Meetingtourismus oder Papiergenerieren?” (heard at work)

Qutebrowser userscripts

It seems to run userscripts not in the virtualenv qutebrowser uses, but the standard system one? Installing packages in virtualenv didn’t work, but installing them globally did.

DVC

Moving/renaming a file/directory is easy: dvc move from to¹. Automatically updates the from.dvc files. Then .gitignore and the .dvc file have to be added and committed through git as usual.

Data organization / dataset structure link

This is interesting: Data Organization — documentation

In general: Best Practices for Scientific Data Management — documentation

This guide describes Axiom Data Science’s best practices for scientific data management. The intent of these practices is to improve the accessibility and usability of your data. These practices may be followed at any time during the preparation of your dataset, but are most useful when considered at the onset of project planning and implemented during data collection.

Also related: Organising your data | Research Data Management

Tree output only directories

tree -d does it.

Git paths from root of repo

Root of repo: git rev-parse --show-prefix ²

--git-dir returns the location of the .git folder, and --show-toplevel returns the absolute location of the git root.

Patterns / phrases / Random

• “It’s not a solution, but it’s an approach” - heard at work, VF

vim delete all lines not matching pattern

I’ll memorize the g/... syntax someday.

:g!/pattern/d

I can just look for the pattern as usual with /pattern and tweak it live, then do

:g!//d

and it will atke the last used pattern.

Pizza sauce recipes

I should try doing something more interesting with the passata di pomodoro!

Options:

• Barbecue Pizza Sauce Recipe | Serious Eats
• Thick & Rich Homemade Pizza Sauce Recipe - Budget Bytes (can be frozen)
• Pizza sauce recipe | BBC Good Food

In general all seem to require both tomato puree and chopped tomatoes; and olive oil + garlic + oregano/basil + (brown) sugar seems to cover 90% of cases.

Deutsch

die Kaffeesatzleserei - reading in coffee beans (heard at work)

screen attaching screens without full name

I shouldn’t forget that screen -R screenname can be replaced by screen -R s if it’s the only screen with such a name. Not sure if better or worse than tab completion, likely worse because it’s surprising, but quite nice to use.

Logoff i3 with a CLI

i3-msg exit¹ does the magic.

Blocking ips with ipset

• ipset - ArchWiki

ipset -N myset nethash  # create myset
ipset add myset 27.8.0.0/13 
iptables -I INPUT -m set --match-set myset src -j DROP # create temporary iptables thing

# making it persistent

ipset save > /etc/ipset.conf

# then enable ipset services

# Listing stuff
ipset -L

# Deleting set
ipset destroy myset

iptables basics

If you can’t destroy an ipset set because it’s being used by kernel:

iptables -L --line-numbers returns this:

Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
num  target     prot opt source               destination
1    DROP       all  --  anywhere             anywhere             match-set myset src
...

Then to delete number 1:

iptables -D INPUT 1

Generally blocking countries

GitHub - mkorthof/ipset-country: Block countries using iptables + ipset + ipdeny.com can do both a whitelist and a blacklist.

Data Scientist roadmap/curriculum

Article with a very interesting graph: Becoming a Data Scientist - Curriculum via Metromap – Pragmatic Perspectives

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German / Deutsch

• “Die Prioritäten sind ein bißchen volatil geworden”
• “Sammle von XY Team ein bißchen Stimmung”

German

der Tonus - heard at work in context of

JQ producing nice comma-separated json

Option to return objects as a list of objects (separated by a comma) · Issue #124 · stedolan/jq: TL;DR use jq "[foo]" instead of jq "foo".

Yunohost full app information / data / install paths

yunohost app info -f appname returns the A LOT of info about the appname, including installation paths.

Qutebrowser userscripts folder location / Writing informative error messages

… can be located in ~/.config/qutebrowser/userscripts, not just in ~/.local ..! When tried to run one it didn’t find it helpfully outputted all the paths it looks for them - which is great and I’ll steal this. If a file is not found you know the person will probably need this, especially if they are many.

GNU Stow for dotfiles management

One of the cooler solutions I’ve seen: Managing dotfiles with GNU stow - Alex Pearce (There seems to be a canonical page¹ I found first, but I like the other one more)

TL;DR create a directory for the dotfiles, with each folder containing dotfiles mirroring the usual dotfiles’ locations in the system; Then from inside the main dotfiles directory do stow vim bash whatever and it’ll magically put it in the right place in the home directory.

This works because

Stow assumes that the contents of the

you specify should live one directory above where the stow command is run, so having our .dotfiles directory at ~/.dotfiles means using stow to manage our dotfiles just works. ²

This is awesome because:

• No manual symlinking
• Dotfiles directory can be easily backed up with git or whatever

The same article²’s sample github repo: dotfiles/neovim at master · alexpearce/dotfiles

Cool dotfile ideas

The stow linked github repo’s dotfiles are actually fascinating: alexpearce/dotfiles: My dotfiles.

dotfiles/.gitconfig at master · alexpearce/dotfiles:

# Clone git repos with URLs like "gh:alexpearce/dotfiles"
[url "https://github.com/"]
  insteadOf = "gh:"
[url "git@github.com:"]
  pushInsteadOf = "gh:"
# Clone CERN GitLab repos with URLs like "gl:lhcb/Hlt"
[url "ssh://git@gitlab.cern.ch:7999/"]
  insteadOf = "gl:"

Git config aliases

Applying the above to my own configs in ~/.gitconfig.

Assuming the ssh port is 1234 ~/.gitconfig is like

[url "ssh://git@myserver:1234/"]
  insteadOf = "gh:"

and then in the per-repo settings something similar to

[remote "bitbucket"]
	url = gh:myusername/myproject.git

Cloning it is now easy:

git clone gh:myusername/myproject

Neat!

Jekyll syntax highlighting supported languages

List of supported languages and lexers · rouge-ruby/rouge Wiki Quite a lot! Will try the generic conf for the .gitconfig above.

Yunohost

I’m very impressed by it! Makes everything really easy, I remember the last time I had to install stuff manually. After 48h 9/10, some things surprised me (removing root ssh access…) but they were always mentioned in the relevant docu I hadn’t read.

Official docu is quite okay, but rarely appeared when I was googling my problems. My instinct is to Google the problem instantly - sometimes they should actually be to find and check any existing official documentation/README first, then google. (An even better instinct would be to skim any official documentation before starting, as religiously as I do it for unknown real-life 3D things.)

Adding subdomains for Yunohost

This took me too long to find, has info about correct DNS records: DNS and subdomains for the applications | Yunohost Documentation

By trial and error the complete process is:

1. Add DNS record for subdomain like last examples here:

   @         A            XYZ.XYZ.XYZ.XYZ
   @         AAAA         1234:1234:1234:FFAA:FFAA:FFAA:FFAA:AAFF
   *         CNAME        mydomain.com.
   agenda    CNAME        mydomain.com.
   blog      CNAME        mydomain.com.
   rss       CNAME        mydomain.com.
   

2. Add new domain to yunohost, input the domain with subdomain (subdomain.my.domain) as it if were new
3. Do a diagnostic, which does DNS checks too, which are needed for Letsencrypt
4. Install letsencrypt certificate from the usual Yunohost panel

I kept messing up NAME and DATA of the CNAME records because I was following more the other ones Yunohost created, a row of

Name: xmpp-upload.my.domain
Data: @

For subdomainname.my.domain I needed this (kinda-sorta-reversed from the above; as usual, dots are significant):

Name: my.domain.
Data: subdomainname

Random / colored fonts generator / CLI

cfonts is like figlet, but with many more settings (colors and alignment blew my mind!)! Link has a lot of colorful examples. I might get a nice colorful motd and/or banner soon. :)

Setting a new hostname linux

There’s a command for that: hostnamectl set-hostname new-hostname

Symbolic links and ~/.local/bin

I like the idea of having ~/.local/bin in my $PATH, and putting there symbolic links (ln -s TARGET LINK) to my usual folder where I have programs/executables. I’d even have a separate thing in $PATH for shell scripts and binaries, which will get rid of so many stupid CLI aliases I have whose function is to point to a single executable with a long path. TODO - look at my aliases and commands I run often and see how many of them can I symlink