Pure bash markdown table generator
I wanted a portable markdown table generator a few months back and threw
together markdown-table.
Merging git repos with git-filter-repo
I needed to merge multiple git repos into a single one using subdirectories,
while preserving the history. I have used git filter-branch in the past
to do the inverse. Searching around, I found git-filter-repo which made
it a snap.
Dump Calendar.app events to JSON
I wanted a way to dump Calendar.app events to JSON. I came across icalBuddy, which can dump your events to text. I threw together the following bash/jq script to convert icalBuddy output to JSON.
Shell Tricks: Pretty Printing the name of your program
You might need to print or use the name of your program itself — what you
would see if you ran basename my-script.sh. tl;dr: use ${0##*/}.
Shell Tricks: Detecting if your script is being piped
If you need to check if a shell script is being piped to another program (i.e.
bash yourscript.sh | less) you can use test -t 1 and friends.
A solution for git repos and iCloud?
If you’re tried keeping a git repo in an iCloud (or Dropbox) folder before,
you know it works fine — until it doesn’t. Something inevitably happens
one day while one of your devices is syncing, and your repo is corrupted, such
that a bunch of your files look like they’ve been changed. A workaround I’ve
been playing with is custom $GIT_DIR set via direnv. Here’s how I set
it up.
You can’t parse HTML with regex
This now infamous post on Stack Overflow — You can’t parse HTML with regex — is one of my favorites. I think every dev has tried it at least three times: first time you do something simple and it Just Works™; second time you try something advanced and manage to figure out most of the edge cases so it Mostly Works™; final time is such a nightmare you wish you’d chosen to build Things Out of Wood™ instead of code.
Fun with jq and Tautulli
Responsive CSS Gallery
Searching for image gallery templates, I came across this one that looks light-weight and decent enough.
Dev Shower Thought: Webmaster
Dev Shower Thought: Webmaster on a resume in the 90s looked pretty sweet; in 2022 it’s a red flag saying “I don’t really know what I’m talking about.”