Command line bookmarks

I saw a Gary Bernhardt's talk where he explains a few console tricks. Most of the tricks themselves I already knew, but the biggest outcome of seeing the talk is the motivation for scripting everything and using small functions to use bash/zsh the fastest possible way.

I'm a big fan of zsh, and I have a fairly big .zshrc (101 aliases, for example).

At work, we use a quite strict and orthogonal way to tag all project issues, so that one can find out easily which issues are waiting for merge, which are halted, or which are being worked on.  As we use github, the usual way is log into github (or waffle) and search .

But when it starts getting repetitive, I usually think how to do it faster. one option was bookmarks in conkeror, but it didn't quite work.

Now, I'm using this in my .zshrc :

BROWSER=/home/rgrau/bin/conkeror
PROJECT=projectname

function ghnext {$BROWSER "https://github.com/3scale/$PROJECT/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3AT-core+label%3AB-Next"}
function ghmerge {$BROWSER "https://github.com/3scale/$PROJECT/labels/needs%3A%20merge"}
function ghmy-issues {$BROWSER "https://github.com/3scale/$PROJECT/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is:open+assignee:kidd"}
function gh3scale {$BROWSER "https://github.com/3scale/$PROJECT"}
function ghissues {$BROWSER "https://github.com/3scale/$PROJECT/issues"}
function ghcurr {$BROWSER "https://github.com/3scale/$PROJECT/issues?q=is%3Aopen+label%3AB-current+label%3AT-core"}

And here is gary's talk:

Tell The People You Love That You Love Them

Another text to save. I think I'm gonna report these kind of texts in this blog.

Tell The People You Love That You Love Them

Be normal at dinner

I have now a new short text in my list of (non-classic) favourites and inspirational.

“Be Normal At Dinner:” On Geniuses, Lovers, and The Asks We Make of Both

Clasp. Implementation and its applications. Just wow

A talk that just left me shitting bricks. And makes me want to return to the drug discovery world via Common Lisp.

If you have any work for me, mail me at raimonster+nospam@gmail.com .

Wow Wow Wow.




And here's another neat story about lisp hackers: Crash Bandicoot in Lisp

Farewell Mr.Nash. Games and complexity. p vs np

Today, 24 of may 2015,  John Nash passed away in a traffic accident. His wife also passed away in the same accident....

Apart from his work on Game Theory (which I studied a bit back in university), he also had great implications in cryptography and problem complexity.

Here are a couple of good videos about P vs NP. The first one pretty approachable to everyone. Second one is a class from MIT 6.006 by Eric Demaine.





Here's a great talk by Eric Demain I just stumbled upon. This guy is really impressive, follow him everywhere. A true inspiring guy. He's teaching 'Introduction to Algorithms' and 'Advanced Algorithms and Data Structures'

[ANN] - Helm-dash 1.2.1 released

It's been a long time since any announcement on helm-dash. Now that we hit 100stars, we are happy to release a new version which supports third party docsets.

Kapeli keeps a list of user contributed docsets which aren't officially supported but in a contrib repo.

As the way to fetch the docsets changes completely from the official ones, I created a kind of adapter that fetches the docsets info and offers a curated version through a very simple API. The app that manages this is called dashes-to-dashes .  Every 20something minutes it updates the list of user contributed docsets, and makes it available for any helm-dash user who runs `m-x helm-dash-install-user-docset'.  The official ones are still available on 'm-x helm-dash-install-docset'.

There are some improvements in the support for windows, and a few bugfixes here and there.

Also, there's a branch waiting to land that will improve the userdoc trimming. When searching "rails | controller" it'll narrow the search just to 'ruby on rails' docset.

Stay tunned, and thanks for the support!

feh image viewer

My need for viewing images is really low. Just a few screenshots and funny pics, but I need some app to view them.

I usually use emacs for this task, but there's this little suckless app, feh , which is doing its job quite well. I use it to set the background image on my laptop

exec feh --bg-scale ~/dotfiles/wallpapers/sun.png

and I just configured it to accept vim-ish keybindings.