Machine Learning / Glossaries!
A quick post – having found (and really liked) the Google Developers Machine Learning Glossary (good content, cross referencing between related topics) I thought it...
Category: Software Development
Migrating git to svn (subversion)
I’ve found that most documentation / forum discussion around the web for this topic tends to be about migrating svn to git – so here’s...
Increasing / decreasing number of xargs parallel processes (at run time!)
xargs makes it very easy to quickly run a set of similar processes in parallel – but did you know when you’re half-way through a...
Vim sub-replace-special – ampersands in substitute search/replace
Curious… While editing in vim you want to search and replace including a sub-string with an ampersand (&) – this doesn’t have an special regular...
stdbuf – Run COMMAND, with modified buffering operations for its standard streams
While piping together commands that only output intermittently we run into the pipe buffers created by the pipe() system call (also see overview of pipes...
A quick start for Python decorators
Synopsis #!/usr/bin/env python3 import shutil # Decorator which pre-checks the space in /tmp # and throws an exception if the space is more than #...
PyCon(line) AU 2020 Rube Codeberg competition
This is for fun, for silliness and for do not use anywhere-ness – or to quote the instructions: If you’ve ever wondered just how egregious...
perl oct(‘0b…’) to interpret binary strings
This is really a quick reminder about a perl function which does a little more than you’d perhaps expect. Need to convert a binary (or...
single quote characters in a single-quoted string in shells
A very quick and simple comment on building single-quoted strings in shell scripts which include single quotes. Note that it’s not possible to include a...
Exception-al perl signals
Scenario For a certain code-base it’s decided it would be useful to be able to trigger an exception on-demand (mid-way through a process working). Why?...