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@victoria.dev

662 days ago

This being the 2,38947234th and probably last time I’ll change my username, (marriage is permanent, right?) I thought I’d better write a quick post on how this transition can be achieved as smoothly as possible. You can read official instructions on how to change your GitHub username …

#websites #linux #terminal

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@victoria.dev

664 days ago

I think you can learn more about someone’s true character from their Audible library than their Twitter feed.

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@victoria.dev

668 days ago

Add the current git branch to your bash prompt! In .bashrc:

parse_git_branch() {
 git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
}
if [ "$color_prompt" = yes ]; then
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[0;1;38;5;247m\]> …

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@victoria.dev

670 days ago

New rule: if non-critical item sits on the to-do list for more than three days, delete it.

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@victoria.dev

676 days ago

Confession: I only buy Altoids mints when I need to store something tiny.

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@victoria.dev

681 days ago

Big decisions are really just the sum of the many little decisions that were made before them.

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@victoria.dev

696 days ago

On a scale of 1-3, how familiar are you with protocol buffers?

reserved 1;
reserved "i_dont_get_it";
int32 basic_familiarity = 2;
int32 these_should_be_enums = 3;

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@victoria.dev

703 days ago

Today on Getting Totally Sidetracked with Linux Commands, a one-liner that prints all subdirectories without a .git in them:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec test '!' -e '{}/.git' ';' -printf "not git repo: %p\n"

With a little help from https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/525534/

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@victoria.dev

709 days ago

Turns out humans also have artificial intelligence. It looks like we all know how to succeed on our own but most of the time we’re just referencing past examples.

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@victoria.dev

715 days ago

It’s a big, wonderful, dangerous, and important world out there… but today, I am really excited for just one comparatively little, relatively short, but singularly important thing that will hopefully happen tomorrow.