Marc Abramowitz

Python

Unify Saved Me from Manual Quote Hell

Ever had a coding style quirk that slowly drives you mad? At work, our team follows the Black code style — with one exception: single quotes over double. Seems harmless, right? It turns out this one tiny deviation spawns a...

General

Digging into Nix

I've heard good things about Nix. It's time to take it for a spin. abramowi at marcs-mbp-3 in ~ $ curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install info: downloading installer...

General

Time to revive this blog

I last posted to this blog in 2015. Wow. Time to get things going again, I think...

DebianLinuxUbuntu

Repair MongoDB after an unclean shutdown

This was on an Ubuntu 14.04 VM: vagrant@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~$ sudo -u mongodb mongod --repair --dbpath /var/lib/mongodb

ProgrammingPython

Seeing info when changing virtualenvs with virtualenvwrapper

I wanted to see a bit about virtualenvs when I activate them with workon from virtualenvwrapper. I added the following to $VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_HOOK_DIR/postactivate: #!/bin/bash # This hook is run after every virtualenv is...

Mac

How to detect non-Apple kernel extensions

My old Mac crashes a lot. I'm wondering if it's because of some bad third-party extension. Here's how to list non-Apple kernel extensions (kext's): kextstat | grep -v apple

Mac

New MacBook Pro Retina

Our new MacBook Pro Retina arrived while we were in Hawaii. Our old MacBook Pro was getting long in the tooth. It was a pre-unibody, 2007 model, 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of RAM, a 500 GB spinning disk drive, and OS X...