Nick's Notes...
Occasionally I drink too much coffee and get the idea that I’m going to write down some of my thoughts. This is where they end up - my hodgepodge of projects, research, and interesting articles I’ve read.
I loosely group the content into three categories:
- Blog Posts: Links to articles or how-tos on other sites.
- Notebooks: Ongoing research and notes on topics I have found interesting.
- How-tos: Somewhat completed projects.
Latest Blog Posts
I always forget which tools are the latest and greatest to use when I’m setting up a new Python project. Alex Mitelman published a really helpful summary here:
Python Best Practices for a New Project in 2021
Comments$ export URL="http://ccmixter.org/contests/freestylemix/hisboyelroy/freestylemix_-_hisboyelroy_-_Revolve.mp3" $ playerctl -p My_Chromecast open "$URL"
This will play a song on the Chromecast.
Ok, that’s awesome. chromecast_mpris, by Alex DeLorenzo
CommentsI needed my web server to dynamically find the database instance in my Google Cloud project. Yes, I could use DNS, or environment variables. Instead, I just wanted to look it up at runtime via a start script.
The only magic here was getting the format string correct.
gcloud compute instances list --project nicks-project --filter="tags:db" \ --format='value[](networkInterfaces[].networkIP.notnull().list():label=INTERNAL_IP)'
Done!
CommentsI usually take lots of notes during meetings, but they’re usually pretty random, and I almost never do anything with them. I’m not sure I’ll enact all of the ideas in Vasili’s note, but he has some really good recommendations for taking great notes, and actually doing something with them afterwards :)
Source: https://barehands.substack.com/p/how-to-take-meeting-notes
CommentsWhat must be done (“start the project”, “run the tests” etc.) won’t change. How it must be done (“yarn …”, “docker-compose …”) can change multiple time in a project’s lifespan. It’s a lot easier to update a single script than to propagate a new set of commands.
Source: https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/no-script-is-too-simple
CommentsMore...