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It’s no secret that I love automation, and lately my templating framework of choice has been copier. One hiccup I recently ran into was having spaces in my templated directory names. This makes it harder to run commands against as you need to escape them, and if they end up in a url you end up with ugly %20 all over.

Yes the solution comes from a competing templating framework.

I install copier with pipx, so I need to inject cookiecutter in to my copier environment to use the slugify filter.

pipx inject copier cookiecutter

If you are using a normal virtual environment you can just pip install it.

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I came across box-cli-maker from box-cli-maker, and it’s packed with great features and ideas.

Render highly customizable boxes in the terminal

box-cli-maker by Delta456 is a game-changer in its space. Excited to see how it evolves.

Make Highly Customized Boxes for CLI

I love getting faster in my workflow, something I have recently added in is creating GitHub repos with the cli. I often create little examples of projects, but they just end up on my machine and not anywhere that someone else can see, mostly because it takes more effort to go create a repo. TIL you can create a repo right from the command line and push to it immediately.

gh repo create waylonwalker-cli

want to see what this repo I created is about? #

Check out what I created here.

Textual has devtools in the upcoming css branch, and its pretty awesome!

Textual is still very early and not really ready for prime time, but it’s quite amazing how easy some things such as creating keybindings is. The docs are coming, but missing right now so if you want to use textual be ready for reading source code and examples.

As @willmcgugan shows in this tweet it’s pretty easy to setup, it requires having two terminals open, or using tmux, and currently you have to use the css branch.

https://twitter.com/willmcgugan/status/1531294412696956930

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I’m really excited about minesweeper, an amazing project by NotUnlikeTheWaves. It’s worth exploring!

A minesweeper in the terminal written in Golang with Bubbletea

The work on gh-eco by jrnxf.

🦎 gh cli extension to explore the ecosystem

totally guessed at this post’s date

I’m still trying to understand this one, but this is how you force a python object to stop atexit.

Whenever you are installing python packages, you should always use a virtual environment. pip makes this easy to follow by adding some configuration to pip.

Pip is the pacakage tool for python. It installs third-party packages and is configurable. One of the configuration settings that I highly reccommend everyone to add is require-virtualenv. This will stop pip from installing any packages if you have not activated a virtualenv.

python packages often require many different dependencies, sometimes packages are up to date and sometimes they require different versions of dependencies. If you install everything in one environment its easy to end up with version conflict issues that are really hard to resolve, especially since your system environment cannot easily be restarted.

My one exception that I put in my system level packages is pipx. pipx is very handy as it manages virtual environments for you and is intended for command line utilities that would end up in your system env or require you to manually manage virtual environments without it.

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I’ve been trying to adopt pyenv for a few months, but have been completely blocked by this issue on one of the main machines I use. Whenever I start up ipython I get the following error.

ImportError: No module named '_sqlite3

I talked about why and how to use pyenv along with my first impressions in this post

According to #678 I need to install libsqlite3-dev on ubuntu to resolve this issue.

libsqlite3-dev can be installed using apt

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Sometimes you have a pretty old branch you are trying to merge into and you are absolutely sure what you have is what you want, and therefore you don’t want to deal with any sort of merge conflicts, you would rather just tell git to use my version and move on.

The first step is to make sure your local copy of the branch you are moving into is up to date.

git checkout main git pull

update your feature branch #

It’s also worth updating your feature branch before doing the merge. Maybe you have teammates that have updated the repo, or you popped in a quick change from the web ui. It’s simple and worth checking.

git checkout my-feature git pull

start the merge #

Merge the changes from main into my-feature branch.

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Check out Cveinnt and their project LiveTerm.

💻 Build terminal styled websites in minutes!

curl has done a fantastic job with curl. Highly recommend taking a look.

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

A few of my friends and I all just borked our neovim configs during a plug update, and because none of us were using :PlugSnapshot it was painful to recover from.

https://twitter.com/pypeaday/status/1524882893914398732

Lucky for me I did it on a home machine that I only occasionally edit from, so I could still take the snapshot from a working machine before taking the plunge into fixing everying.

Snapshotting ensures that you install the same git sha on every single plugin. This way when you have multiple machines running your same vim config, they are all on the same sha of each plugin, and you dont end up with weird things happening on one machine. And then you get to decide when you are ready to update, rather than when it breaks.

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I really like the super clean look of no status menus, no url bar, no bookmarks bar, nothing. Don’t get me wrong these things are useful, but honestly they take up screen real estate and I RARELY look at them. What I really want is a toggle hotkey. I found this one from one of DT’s youtube video’s. I can now tap xx and both the status bar at the botton and the address bar at the top disappear.

The work on fish-lf-icons by joshmedeski.

Fish plugin to add Nerd Font icon support to the lf terminal file manager

When you first start qutebrowser It will create some config files in your home directory for you, but they will be empty.

As far as I know qutebrowser will create this default config out of the box for you, if it doesn’t, then somehow it just appeared for me 😁.

❯ tree ~/.config/qutebrowser /home/waylon/.config/qutebrowser ├── autoconfig.yml ├── bookmarks │   └── urls ├── config.py ├── greasemonkey └── quickmarks 2 directories, 5 files

Why convert #

You might want to confvert if you are more comfortable with the python config, or if like me you just want config in one place and you are stealing configuration options from others who have thiers in config.py.

I am often editing my own scripts as I develop them. I want to make a better workflow for working with scripts like this.

Currently I am combining nvim with a which subshell to etit these files like this.

for now lets use my todo command as an example

nvim `which todo`

First pass #

On first pass I made a bash function to do exactly what I have been doing.

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I am getting ready to do some timeseries analysis on a git repo with python, my first step is to figure out a way to list all of the git commits so that I can analyze each one however I want. The GitPython library made this almost trivial once I realized how.

from git import Repo repo = Repo('.') commits = repo.iter_commits()

This returns a generator, if you are iterating over them this is likely what you want.

commits # <generator object Commit._iter_from_process_or_stream at 0x7f3307584510>

The generator will return git.Commit objects with lots of information about each commit such as hexsha, author, commited_datetime, gpgsig, and message.

I was editing some blog posts over ssh, when I ran into this error. gpg was failing to sign my commits. I realized that this was because I could not answer to the desktop keyring over ssh, but had no idea how to fix it.

This is the error message I was seeing.

gpg failed to sign the data ssh

The fix #

The fix ended up being pretty simple, but quite a ways down this stack overflow post. This environment variable tells gpg that we are not logged into a desktop and it does not try to use the desktop keyring, and asks to unlog the gpgkey right in the terminal.

export GPG_TTY=$(tty)

The log in menu #

This is what it looks like when it asks for the passphrase.

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