Sometimes I want to debug the inputs and outputs of function calls to visualize flow or to follow execution passively.
Rather than adding logging statements and littering them around the code, a single decorator can be crafted to show the life cycle of a function:
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I wanted to spin down a hard drive before disconnecting. I have an external hard drive and even after I unmounted the drive the disks were still spinning.
Find the device label of the mounted drive:
$ lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 253:0 0 20G …more ...
I started thinking about doing a fresh linux install and was worried that I might not remember all the packages that I had manually installed. A quick search revealed a one-liner that compares the currently installed packages to the list of packages that were available initially to produce a nice …
more ...Three useful commands to clean up docker if you run out of space
docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
docker rmi $(docker images | grep "^<none>" | awk '{print $3}')
docker volume rm $(docker volume ls -qf dangling=true)
Changing the currently active audio output
First, list all the available output devices like so:
pacmd list-cards
Or similarly:
pactl list cards
Index of the card is found in the first couple lines:
$ pacmd list-cards Welcome to PulseAudio! Use "help" for usage information. >>> 1 …
Identify the last time an arbitrary line (let's say line 1) was changed for every file in the repository.
Try and use blame to identify changes to the first line only:
$ git blame -L 1,1 -- README ^193d722 (Paul Schwendenman 2012-07-23 16:51:03 +0200 1) ======================
Grab …
I use a password store named pass. Pass is a command line based manager that attempts to follow the Unix philosophy (roughly tools should do one thing and do it well.) I wanted to know when the last time I updated each password in my store, so that I …
Rather than printing a document, filling it out by hand and then scanning to so that you are able to return it electronically, use Gimp and ImageMagick to sign documents electronically.
First, make sure to have a png image with the signature on a transparent background.
Next, open …
Make setup.py in your project
from setuptools import setup setup(name='project', version='1.0', description='thing do-er', author='Your Name', url='http://path.to.website', py_modules=[''], classifiers=['Environment :: Console', 'Intended Audience :: Developers', 'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License', 'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4', 'Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux', 'Topic …
To take screenshots with mplayer, you need to first run mplayer with a special flag.
mplayer -vf screenshot movie001.mp4
Then once the movie is playing you can screen shot any frame by hitting the 's' key. mplayer will name the files starting with shot0001.png.
When I first tried …
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