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You can tell I’m bored at work when I spend time building stupid little utilities for myself instead of actually doing the task I should be doing. Today’s stupid little utility: a TUI tool to list merge requests I’ve posted for review. Saves a trip to the browser.
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Thinking About Scripting In Dynamo-Browse
I’ve been using the scripting facilities of dynamo-browse for a little while now. So far they’ve been working reasonably well, but I think there’s room for improvement, especially in how scripts are structured.
At the moment, scripts look a bit like this:
const db = require("audax:dynamo-browse"); const exec = require("audax:x/exec"); db.session.registerCommand("cust", () => { db.ui.prompt("Enter UserID: ").then((userId) => { return exec.system("/Users/lmika/projects/accounts/lookup-customer-id.sh", userId); }).then((customerId) => { let userId = output.replace(/\s/g, ""); return db.session.query(`pk="CUSTOMER#${customerId}"`, { table: `account-service-dev` }); }).then((custResultSet) => { if (custResultSet.rows.length == 0) { db.ui.print("No such user found"); return; } db.session.resultSet = custResultSet; }); });This example script — modified from one that I’m actually using — will create a new
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Some Things I Found Out While Browsing a Substack Newsletter in The Wayback Machine
I did a quick search for that blog post in the the Wayback Machine. I couldn’t find the post but the Substack newsletter was there. I guess Substack does allows archiving of newsletters with the “substack.com” domain after all (if it’s something that they can even control).
Anyway, here are a few things I’ve found out while browsing through a Substack newsletter in the Wayback Machine:
- Clicking “Let me read it first” works: it slides away and the most recent posts show up. Guess it’s just a simple HTML overlay blocking the home page.
- Open all links in a new tab. Just clicking them will run some JavaScript which, I guess, tries to load the post directly from Substack, resulting in an error if the newsletter is taken offline. Opening the link in a new tab will get the post directly from the Wayback Machine.
- Clicking the archive tab seems to bring up the blog archive briefly, but then some JavaScript — which I guess is trying to load the archive from Substack? — replaces it with an error (why does everything need to be JavaScript?!) I’m guessing that the actual HTML is still there so it might be possible to get it if you disable JavaScript. I haven’t tried this though, so this is only a hypothesis.
As for the post itself, it turns out that it was in my Feedbin archive all along, so the search in Wayback Machine wasn’t actually necessary. Now the trick is to find a way to prevent Feedbin from purging old posts. 😳
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Over the weekend, I wanted to revisit a Substack post I read several months ago. Unfortunately, the newsletter was shutdown and the post is no longer available. With a bit of luck it will be available in the Wayback Machine. I’m hoping that works for Substack domain.
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Can’t believe it took me this long to get a headset. Knowing that a mic is only a couple of centimetres from my lips makes a huge difference in how I speak. Saved me from killing my voice today after 4.5 hours of online meetings.
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Follow-up on my phone issue. I think the problem relates to 5G connections. The drop-outs seem to have stopped after I’ve switched 5G off. Still not sure if the problem is the phone or the SIM, but I’m not sure if I’ll pursue it further. 4G seems to be fast enough for now.
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Rebinding Keys For Quickly Resolving Conflicts in GoLand
I’m dealing with a lot of conflicts today as I try to clear a backlog of Git rebases in my to-do pile. I’ve been using GoLand to do this, as my current Git “mergetool” is configured to Vimdiff for some reason1 and I’m not really bothered to find some other tool, at least not yet. GoLand does a pretty good job.
Unfortunately, the default key-bindings for resolving conflicts in GoLand is far from good. About the quarter of actions are bound to keys that make sense. Half the actions, like ignoring hunks, are not bound to anything, while the last quarter are bound to keys that result in a suboptimal experience. For example, the key to accept changes for a delta use the arrow keys, whereas the key to go to the next delta is F7. What a strange default. I’d have to constantly move my hand off the arrow keys over to the Fn row if I want to go through and fix each delta. This, plus moving over to the mouse to select an action not bound to a key, makes resolving conflicts really slow.
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Those “Accept Yours” & “Accept Theirs” buttons in GoLand’s conflicts dialog are a bit of a tease. Might be that I’m missing something (which is possible) but I though a file appearing here means that I manually need to review it. Would anyone blindly accept changes like this?
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Oof, spent all morning updating and rebasing out-of-date pull requests. Only got through half of them so far. This project is pretty fast pace at the moment, so conflicts are expected. But many of these are PRs I been neglecting until now, so it’s still mostly my own doing. 😮💨
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Here’s today’s instalment of Why Didn’t I Think of This Sooner™.
I’ve got into the habit of squashing commits before I push them as part of a pull request. In order to run the command I use to do this —
git rebase -i HEAD~n— I need to know the number of commits I want to squash (this will be the value of n).Fortunately, I’ve got into the habit of prefixing each commit message with the Jira task number. For example, I may write a commit message with the first line being
ABC-123: fixed a bug in the thing, followed by a more detailed list of changes. I do for every commit, even for those “checkpoint commits” I make before changing branches.So all I need to do to get the number of commits I need to squash is to simply count up all the commits that start with the Jira task number. For all this time, the way I do this is to run
git logto open up the history in Vim, and manually count the number of commit messages that began with the particular Jira task number.Today, I remembered that I could use a shell pipeline to do the same thing:
git log | grep ABC-123 | wc -lwhich would save me stack-loads of time and potential mistakes.
Wish I thought of this sooner. 🤦
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I’m moving the posts I had on my wiki to this blog and I’m shutting the wiki down.
I never really used the wiki a lot — in fact, the last two posts were the only pages that were on there (the rest were all links). This was partly because I never got around to setting up backups (this was a pretty big reason why I didn’t put anything I wanted to keep there), but also because I found other places to document things. Anything related to software development I found myself just posting it here. Things that related to projects that I wanted to keep private, I wrote in Day One. So nothing really went into the wiki at all.
I did use the wiki a lot to keep bookmarks to guides and resources I occasionally need to lookup. I think, going forward, I’ll just keep these links as a page on this site. I’m in Micro.blog almost every day so I imagine the amount of extra effort needed to keep this page up-to-date will be low. One less site to visit and maintain. 🙂
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🔗 A delightful reference for HTML Symbols, Entities and ASCII Character Codes
A great reference site I stumbled along when I was trying to find the perfect arrow to include in a webpage. Nice, clean, and quite comprehensive. No awful ads either, which is a breath of fresh air.
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Dynamo-Browse: Using The Back-Stack To Go Forward
More work on Audax toolset. Reengineered the entire back-stack in dynamo-browse to support going forward as well as backwards, much like going forward in a web-browser. Previously, when going back, the current “view snapshot” was being popped off the stack and lost forever (a “view snapshot” is information about the currently viewed table, including the current query and filter if any are set). But I’d need to maintain these view snapshot if I wanted to add going forward as well.
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One thing I miss about working in Java is that the JVM comes out of the box with an interactive debugger. With just a few switches, you can enable a remote debugging session without having to do anything special with your build.
As far as I can tell, such a thing is not possible in Go, at least by default. This means that if you need to debug something running in something like Kubernetes, you either need to bundle something like
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I wonder if people who say they hate bagpipes are actually saying they don’t like the music traditionally played with bagpipes. I’m not one that likes that sort of music either. But Mike Oldfield is a favourite artist of mine, and he’s not afraid of using a fair bit of bagpipe.
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Went to the Union Club Hotel, in Collingwood, with a few friends for dinner tonight. Apparently quite popular with footy fans, which I did not know: there was a group that was quite roudy when I arrived. Fortunately things settled down when we ate dinner, which was pretty good.
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Day One needs a “this time one day ago” section, where you look at the entries from yesterday, realised you’ve made all these spelling and grammatical errors, and you go ahead and fix them. I sure know I can make use of such a feature.
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Adding Copy-To-Clipboard And Layout Changes In Dynamo-Browse
Spent some more time on dynamo-browse this morning, just a little bit.
Got one new feature built and merged to main, which is the ability to copy the displayed item to the pasteboard by pressing c. This is directly inspired by a feature in K9S, which allows you to copy the logs of a running pod to the pasteboard (I use this feature all the time). The package I’m using to access the pasteboard is github.com/golang-design/clipboard, which seems to offer a nice cross-platform approach to doing this.
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Turning Off Shared Command History in Oh My Zsh
TL,DR: add “unsetopt share_history” to your .zshrc file
I’ve been using Oh My Zsh at work for a few months. As far as terminal config managers go, this one works pretty well. But the default configuration does include something which I found quite annoying.
First, a few words on how I use the terminal. I’m in the terminal constantly in my day to day. At the start of the day, I’m creating terminal tabs and running commands to do things like build the project I’m working on, start a testing session, etc. This all starts very ad-hoc, but over time these tabs take on a particular role. I may run
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Discovered something cool on the ATP website. If you play old shows while logged in as a member, you actually get those from the members feed instead of the public one. Not sure if I’m the last person to find this out, but chalk me up as someone delighted by this little feature.
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I started seeing job ads for “Blockchain Engineer” on LinkedIn recently. I have no interest in such roles. But I was curious, so I clicked into one to see what it actually entails. Now, LinkedIn is emailing me similar web3 roles, thinking that I’m interested.
Serves me right. 🤦
