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Q&D cmd-line to show dependency graphs for `brew outdated`
``` brew outdated -q | while read searchRoot; do echo 'checking for '$searchRoot'...' searchIterations=10 outFile=/tmp/$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)_brew_${searchRoot}.gv fullGraph=$(brew deps --installed --dot --graph --include-requirements --for-each --annotate) nodeList="$searchRoot" for i in $(seq 1 $searchIterations); do nodeListNew='' newNodes=$(echo "$fullGraph" | egrep " -> \"($nodeList)" | cut -d\" -f2,4 -s | tr '"' '\n' | sort | uniq | tr '\n' "|" | sed 's/|$//') if [ -n "$newNodes" ] then nodeListNew=$(echo "$nodeList"$'\n'"$newNodes" | tr '|' '\n' | egrep -v '^$' | sort | uniq | tr '\n' "|" | sed 's/|$//') else break fi if [ "$nodeListNew" = "$nodeList" ] then break fi nodeList=$nodeListNew done potOut=$(echo "$fullGraph" | egrep "$nodeList" | sort | uniq) echo 'digraph {'"$potOut"'}' > "$outFile" dot -O -Tpdf "$outFile" open "$outFile".pdf done ```Code tested on macOS 14.4, with the following extras:
brew,graphviz(containingdot) -
dump iCloud Mail Rules to human-readable format
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mac file sharing settings cleared
seems to have happened just after applying the 14.3.1 update (though has happened before):
all settings missing from the GUI, andsharing -lshows the same - nothing. 😕easy enough to re-config - at least after I determined this was the problem, and scratched my head to remember what shares were defined.
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Interesting underscore artifact in recent versions of macOS Terminal
a thin horizontal line, somewhere before the current cursor…
it’s apparently a leftover bit of the cursor which (regardless what style cursor you have) displays in the underline format, where a cursor was.
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A refreshingly nuanced look at "AI"
John Siracusa (famed of exacting investigation and insight) has some excellent ideas - and questions - about “Generative AI”. Which we’re now awash in, whether we know it or not: I Made This.
My own, entirely separate, opinion:
There is no AI that exists right now; “Generative AI” is a (marketing) label, for systems created on the backs of people, while giving them no credit - and certainly none of the revenue. Calling it “AI” is - at best - a stretch. And it’s the latest twist (of the blade) in the “gig economy”.
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safety tip for using `tar` and `--option`s
this will fail (it ignores the excludes - frustrating!):
tar -cf /dev/null ./ --exclude-from=file-of-excludesthis will work:
tar -cf /dev/null --exclude-from=file-of-excludes ./(hint: put the options before the path to archive)
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SMBC is brilliant - as usual:
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Ian McDonald’s “The Little Goddess” is beautiful, brilliant - a page-turner! From The Very Best of the Best. Apparently, a novella from River of Gods - my next stop!
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there’s something about meditation, wherein judgement is suspended… which seems notable / useful - to maybe carry into everyday life
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csvkit to import CSVs in a uniform format
I’ve really been enjoying the power of
csvkitto reliably munge CSVs into a uniform format - regardless the format from the provider (not only the order of columns, but also more complex transformations like whether debits are positive or negative):SQLALCHEMY_SILENCE_UBER_WARNING=1 csvsql --no-inference \ --query 'SELECT COALESCE("Transaction Date",""),"=-"||COALESCE("Amount (USD)",""),COALESCE("Category",""),COALESCE("Description","")||"||"||COALESCE("Merchant","")||"||"||COALESCE("Type",""),"Apple Card" \ FROM stdin' \ | csvformat -T | tail -n+2 | sort -
for each Time Machine destination, display: ID, date & human-readable destination
{ remvHeaders='s/==+/\'$'\n''/g'; echo 'Current status of TM destinations:'; destInfo=$(tmutil destinationinfo | \ sed 's/^> //' | \ tr '\n' '\;' | \ sed -E 's/ +:/:/g' | \ sed -E "$remvHeaders"); defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist Destinations | \ egrep -v ',$' | \ sed -E -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\n[[:blank:]]+"/ /g' | \ sed -E 's/^[[:blank:]]+//' | \ fgrep -e DestinationID -e SnapshotDates | \ sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/;\n/;/g' | \ sed 's/( /"/' | \ while read -r theLine; do destID=$(echo "$theLine" | \ cut -d\" -f2); snapDate=$(echo "$theLine" | \ cut -d\" -f4); echo $destID $snapDate$(echo "$destInfo" | \ fgrep "$destID" | \ sed 's/;ID.*$//' | \ sed -E -e 's/;[^: ]+: / /g'); done | sort -rn } -
wow; I just read my first work by Eleanor Arnason - “Potter of Bones” (in “The Very Best of the Best” anthology) is smart, enchanting, fresh, and I’m looking forward to more!
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open
iftopfor each (cfg’d) network interface:for i in $(ifconfig -lu); do if ifconfig $i | fgrep -v 'inet 127.' | grep -q "inet [0-9]"; then echo $i; fi; done | while read intfc; do osascript -e "tell application \"terminal\" to do script \"sudo iftop -i $intfc\""; done(Mac; could be adapted)
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Partially-formed process, to convert RTF formatting (ex: lists) from clipboard / pasteboard, to paste into Markdown format (ex: git):
osascript -e 'the clipboard as «class RTF »' | tr -d '«»' | sed 's/^data RTF //' | xxd -r -p | /usr/local/bin/pandoc -f rtf -t markdown(for Mac; could be adapted)
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strange: when adding a link to an (Apple) Notes document: if the URL has a comma, everything up to the comma is silently stripped (permanently; editing the URL afterward, is too late) - one solution is to encode commas (the first time) as
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brilliant - and beautiful!
a human “walk” through time, across the earth
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In the story about VT’s US Rep Becca Balint and contributions by crypto-jerk SBF, theVPO has it right: thevpo.org/2023/10/2…
Sadly, coverage by both VTDigger & SevenDays is uncharacteristically sensationalist - a glaring and concerning shift. What’s up there? -
$14 / month - and you better believe you’re still the product 🤮
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it’s increasingly easy, to feel like the formerly reasonable expectations, of working hard, are now less and less likely to happen, as we descend further into dog-eat-dog.
so, the choice is between: a) get increasingly resentful; b) temper expectations - while continuing to fix this broken system -
with piles of books across the place (and devices) I noticed that, depending which pile I find myself at, I’m reading both “The Midnight Kingdom” by Jared Yates Sexton [@JYSexton], and “How to Be an Antiracist”, by Ibram X. Kendi [@ibramxk] - concurrently.
and, each being seriously grounded in important - and suppressed - history, I find that they’re almost meant to be read together.
much learning - and much needed.
which reminds me, that I’ve also been meaning to read Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States”.www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673…
books.apple.com/us/book/h…
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Wow: The Nib is sadly on the way out 😢 - but making all their mags available for free download!
membership.thenib.com/donate-fr…
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got my first pension check; nice. retiring, is the best (work-related) decision I ever made - LOVING it.
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Keef, with a great way to look at our obligation to actively make a better world: www.dailykos.com/stories/2…
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ugh: just after 3am, I got an email that my HSA was going to start charging a fee - per month - after today. so much for that account being - as they so often market it - “my money”. 😟
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reminder:
that thing you opened you phone/computer for - to be immediately distracted by other notifications? do the first thing FIRST - those notifications will still be there.
(otherwise, you’ll likely forget the first - likely more important - thing.)
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