Coding

TL;DR I’m taking 2 weeks off my Synopsys work to work on all those side projects I promised I would, either to myself or to others. We’ve all got a box somewhere of either AliExpress / PiMoroni / PiHut boards and a number of repos and half started projects that you promised that you’d be able to work in playing with in evenings or weekends, but you keep finding yourself doing stupid things like “spending time with family/friends”, “working out”, “spending time with / trying to find your significant other”, or “eating” or “sleeping” or other ridiculous indulgences. ...

I am a heavy user of Jupyter Notebook, both personally for wrapping my head around Open Data, professionally for analysis and reporting, and for education/presentations. So am very comfortable with just spinning up new notebooks all over the show. However, this ends up looking like this… Less than informative and impossible to work out WTF I was doing. Helpfully, there’s a way to change it. In your jupyter_notebook_config.py file (Normally in ~/.jupyter), add the following somewhere sensible ...

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Last week or there abouts, there was a big buzz around the interwebs revisiting Dan Kaminski’s OzymanDNS tool, a perl based toolkit for tunnelling TCP traffic over DNS requests (technically its TCP over SSL over DNS but whos counting) That was originally released mid-2004. I never really found the true source of the new hype surrounding a “old” project (it may have been HAK5’s episode 504 that demonstrated the tool, mubix has put the write up in at room362) ...

Thesis submitted, Viva cleared (with minor corrections) but this post isn’t about all that… Simple one; how do you go from one monolithic project repository to multiple respositories without losing all that tasty tasty commit history? #! /bin/zsh # # git_split.sh Current_Repo username new_repo {list of files/folders you want to keep} # Copyright (C) 2016 bolster <[email protected]> # # Distributed under terms of the MIT license. # BASEDIR=$1 INITDIR=`pwd` NEWREPO="[email protected]:$2/$3.git" shift 3 FILTER_ARGS=$@ TMPDIR=`mktemp -d -t ${BASEDIR}_XXXXXXXXX` echo $BASEDIR $TMPDIR $FILTER_ARGS cp -ra $BASEDIR/. $TMPDIR cd $TMPDIR git filter-branch --index-filter "git rm --cached -qr --ignore-unmatch -- . && git reset -q \$GIT_COMMIT -- $FILTER_ARGS" --prune-empty -- --all && git repack -a -d -f --depth=250 --window=250 && git remote set-url origin $NEWREPO && git gc && git push -u origin master ls -latrh cd $INITDIR rm -rf $TMPDIR YMMV, IANAGG, No refunds, Safety not guaranteed ...