Assorted ramblings
Sometimes you want to check the temperature of your computer from the command line, here's a command I've been using lately:
paste <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/type) <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp) | column -s $'\t' -t | sed 's/\(.\)..$/.\1°C/'
Old platter based hard drives are really slow compared to some newer SSD technology, but they are still cheap!
I've been helping a friend speed up their online store and some plugins are incredibly slow. Feels like the most recent chapter in the ongoing website bloat saga.
A useful tool for formatting the output of Postgres explain tool.
Functools provides a decorator called cached_property in python 3.8+.
pdfsizeopt is a tool that can reduce the filesize of pdf files.
How to set the SSH key to be used when cloning a git repository.
Pylint is a very powerful tool but it's also hard to use effectively.
I ran into a slightly weird issue with Pelican, here's how I debugged it.
Just as the Covid pandemic was starting I ran a workshop that was easily the worst one I've run in my career. Despite things going poorly there was a huge learning opportunity that I'm glad I had. The banking industry has changed dramatically and I wasn't prepared for it.