Centos/Redhat dependencies for building python
Not exhaustive: readline-devel openssl-devel zlib-devel libffi-devel bzip2-devel
Archive of entries posted by james
Lookup longitude/latitude on command line with lonlat
lonlat: a quick script to lookup longitude & latitude for a town on the command line: https://github.com/jamespo/commandmisc/blob/master/scripts/lonlat Requires python 3. Run with lonlat -m usage for how to setup, then lonlat -h.
30 Amazing Python Projects
Some interesting ones here. I like the look of sanic.
Reduce firefox URL bar dropdown size
Go to about:config and change this value browser.urlbar.maxRichResults
Attach from Clipboard – thunderbird addon
Create file attachments directly from the system clipboard. Source: Attach from Clipboard
tldr – simplified man pages
Find man pages too verbose and all you want are some examples? Try tldr – I installed the python client in a virtualenv Tip: you can get git subcommands docs by putting in the “proper” binary, eg tldr find git-checkout
Webextension compatible extensions for Firefox 57
Now FF 57 (Quantum) has been released, old style extensions are no longer supported. Here are replacements that I’ve found: Feed RSS mini icon on Bookmarks Button – Awesome RSS DownThemAll – Download Star Click-to-Play Manager – ??? Copy Plain Text 2 – Copy PlainText FireGestures – Foxy Gestures PrefBar – ??? Might require multiple …
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions eBook: Brian Christian, Griffiths: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store Just got this book – very interesting.
Patch for quicksynergy to support starting minimized
quicksynergy patch
emacs tip of the week #8: spolsky theme
My new current favourite theme for emacs is spolsky. If you use elpy / highlight-indentation, you might want to define this too: (set-face-background ‘highlight-indentation-face “#1B2025”)