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markata 0.3.0 is 15-20% faster

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It’s about time to release Markata 0.3.0. I’ve had 8 pre-releases since the last release, but more importantly it has about 3 months of updates. Many of which are just cleaning up bad practices that were showing up as hot spots on my pyinstrument reports

Markata started off partly as a python developer frustrated with using nodejs for everything, and a desire to learn how to make frameworks in pluggy. Little did I know how flexible pluggy would make it. It started out just as my blog...

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People exceptionally talented in the Deliberative theme are best described by the serious care they take in making decisions or choices. They anticipate obstacles.

I am risk-adverse. I want everything well thought out and calculated before I make any sort of change. I have never gambled in my life and just the thought of it makes me anxious.

I can use this as a strength to plan out potential issues and prevent them. I do this quite often with my role in infrastructure.

I need to make sure that I use deadlines to keep this as a strength and not hinderence.

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get the version of any python package | python api

A common meta thing that I need in python is to find the version of a package. Most of the time I reach for package_name.__version__, but that does not always work.

In searching the internet for an answer nearly every one of them pointed me to __version__. This works for most projects, but is simply a convention, its not required. Not all projects implement a __version__, but most do. I’ve never seen it lie to me, but there is nothing stopping someone from shipping mismatched versions.

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While its not required its super handy and easy for anyone to remember off the top of their head. It makes it easy to start debugging differences between what you have vs what you see somewhere else. You can do this by dropping a __version__ variable inside your __init__.py file.

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Manage your displays with xrandr manager

xrandr is a great cli to manage your windows in a linux distro using x11, which is most of them. The issue is that I can never remember all the flags to the command, and if you are using it with something like a laptop using a dock the names of all the displays tend to change every time you redock. This makes it really hard to make scripts that work right every time.

Check out the deresmos/xrandr-manager for more details on it.

xrander-manager is a python cli application that is simply a nice interface into xrandr. So you must have xrandr already installed, which is generally just there on any x11 window manager, I’ve never had to install it.

As with any python cli that is indended to be used as a global/system level cli application I always install them with pipx. This automates the process of creating a

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Get better at jq interactively | ijq

jq has some syntax that will sneak up on you with complexity. It looks so good, and so understandable, but everytime I go to use it myself, I don’t get it. ijq is an interactive alternative to jq that gives you and nice repl that you can iterate on queries quickly.

paru -Syu ijq

Here are some other articles, I decided to link at the time of writing this article.

JUT | Read Notebooks in the Terminal

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Two new shell aliases for git

Recently I added two new bash/zsh aliases to make my git experience just a tad better.

Most of our work repos were recently migrated to new remote urls, we scriped out the update to all of the repos, but I was left with a tracking error for all of my open branches. To easily resolve this I just made an alias so that I can just run trackme anytime I see this error.

There is no tracking information for the current branch. Please specify which branch you want to merge with. See git-pull(1) for details git pull <remote> <branch> If you wish to set tracking information for this branch you can do so with: git branch --set-upstream develop origin/<branch>

getting the branch #

The following command will always return the currently checked out branch name.

git symbolic-ref --short HEAD

Injecting this into the suggested...

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IPython q to exit

So many terminal applications bind q to exit, even the python debugger, its muscle memory for me. But to exit ipython I have to type out exit<ENTER>. This is fine, but since q is muscle memory for me I get this error a few times per day.

╭─────────────────────────────── Traceback (most recent call last) ────────────────────────────────╮ │ <ipython-input-1-2b66fd261ee5>:1 in <module> │ ╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ NameError: name 'q' is not defined

After digging way too deep into how IPython implements its ExitAutoCall I realized there was a very simple solution here. IPython automatically imports all the scripts you put in your profile directory, all I needed was to create...

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