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Continue reading →: More Vim tricks with Python
Well using Python quite a bit more and while my Vi was well tuned for Javascript there are some things to know with Python. First somethings that are reminders of features of Vi that I don’t use enough: gqq which means reformat the current like, this let’s you do rewrapping…
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Continue reading →: If you are doing a quick resume
Not that anyone should need it any more, but LinkedIn does a nice job of spewing your profile into a PDF, it’s available in the More tab of your profile. If you then push this into Google Docs, they can read PDFs decently well and you can hack from there.
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Continue reading →: iPod and iPhone Nostalgia
Well, I’m finally having (no) time for old projects, but sometimes they beckon. In this case, I have a very early iPod with a Touchwheel. Actually, I have two. But the very most original one from the original HP partnership seems to have a crashed drive. But the second with…
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Continue reading →: Silicon Valley Bank Discounts
Wow, SVB sure has a great collection of discounts for startups. These are mainly about existing programs, but there are some good ones: AWS. They have a startup program that gets you $1K off on the first charges. Google Cloud. Similar one, up to $100K depending on how much they…
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Continue reading →: More Vi tips get the pipe output of a command
OK, this is kind of a neat trick. If you want to get the output of a shell command into Vi for further editing, there is an extension to the read command where you can say take the output of a pipe. What this says is to do a read…
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Continue reading →: Editing Markdown with Vi and copying in Email
Many times, when you are documenting a project, you just want to copy in some email. This turns out to be quite difficult to do, so here’s a guide: If you do a simple copy and paste into a text file, the indents are going to be horrible as is…
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Continue reading →: Using DocuSign as a repository for startups
Well, if you are not going to pay for DocuSign in all it’s glory, here’s a simple way to manage critical documents. That is things with signatures for your startup that you are worried about. Send from admin account but don’t sign there The process is a little convoluted because…
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Continue reading →: Using Google Colab with Github
Ok this is a pretty awesome tool, you can use a free virtual machine with GPUs and TPUs for small Jupyter notebooks. Some quick notes on how to be successful with it: They include full version control in the Jupyter Notebook itself, but if you want full version control, the…
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Continue reading →: Google Calendar does not handle multiple identities well
Ok, this thing is super confusing because Google Calendars are super unclear on how auto accept invites works. They change in April 2019 their options, so there is no more specific “auto accept invites”, it just says “yes” accept which The current defaults for in https://calendar.google.com/calendar/b/1/r/settings and you can see…
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Continue reading →: Cleaning your Black & Decker Hand Vacuum
It seems nuts in this crazy time of COVID and unrest to talk about your Vacuum cleaner, but maybe that’s because I have to find something to do. First of all, we’ve had this for ten year and have always shaken it loose But finally there is just no suction.…