I heard about Dask at my local Python Meetup last month. After reading about it, I came across Matthew Rocklin’s Pycon 2017 talk on Dask and was blown away by his demo of crunching through around 20 gigs of csv data (60 gigs in memory) in matter of a …

I was trying to install security updates on my digitalocean vps and lost my ssh connection. The one time I was not using tmux! GAH!! It was also stuck at a stage where it was waiting for me to put in what config changes to use for some software package …

While I was trying to set up my development environment on a vagrant vm, I saw a compiler error while installing the excellent YouCompleteMe vim plugin. Well let me back up a bit..
You install the plugin using Vundle. After the plugin is installed you need to run a script …

I wanted the ability to review the output from a shell script. I could always re-direct output to a log file, but then I don’t see where in the script I am currently at. I can always open a second terminal and then tail the lot file I used …

I know you can easily download vimeo videos, but I wanted to download all of Derek Wyatt’s excellent vim tutorials for offline viewing in one shot. Ideally downloading all videos directly from the rss feed would be the best option. I could not find any application which did that …