How to extract SyncThing Device ID / Name pairs from syncthing log file.

After watching a talk on Vim & TMUX by Nick Nisi I was inspired to improve on his tm script.

Like Nick’s original, my script allows me to easily attach to running tmux sessions and create ad hoc new onces. I then added the ability to list any tmuxinator configurations I have.

Better tarsnap backup management by using a Makefile.

I am slightly anal about how my files are structured on disk. To this end I like to date prefix my post files. Hugo does not easily accommodate this and I found that it was causing me to not write blog posts or quick notes when I otherwise would have.

My Tarsnap field notes

I have been using Tarsnap in ‘production’ for two full days now.

And by production I mean it has been running on my laptop mostly without intervention.

If you use LaunchCenter Pro on iOS then you know that you can create an action to open Wunderlist to a specific list. This is very useful as my wife and I use Wunderlist for shared shopping lists.

There are a couple of howtos out there on how to fix the dreaded ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. when running gem install tiny_tds.

This one will fix it without having to force link libiconv which is not a good thing to do.

Delete from an aliased table with a join. Just make sure to use the table alias after the delete statement: DELETE c

Simple method that iterates a hash and any string values that contain an asterisk are changed to a percent sign. It will not iterate to sub hashes.