Author: Marc

Fix the oh-my-zsh ESC-. annoyance

I like oh-my-zsh a lot, except that it rebinds ESC-. to do "..\n" and that is irritating as I really like the default of it inserting the last word from the previous command. Here's how to get it back: bindkey '\e.'...

ProgrammingPython

Pull request accepted for ScriptTest

My pull request (to fix a Unicode bug that I discovered while working on a bug in pip) was accepted for inclusion in Ian Bicking's ScriptTest package....

ProgrammingPython

Patch accepted into Twisted

I had some code accepted into Twisted to solve a bug related to Unicode. The bug is actually 2 years old and I first got involved 23 months ago (in December of 2009), so it's good to see the loop finally closed....

General

My coderwall

For a previous Xbox 360 achievement junkie, this is pretty nifty. My coderwall

ProgrammingPython

phpserialize on Python 3

I was playing around with phpserialize and found out that phpserialize doesn't work on Python 3. However, I put together a GitHub fork that works with Python 3 (and also has tests, especially for Unicode which is the real gotcha...

Mac

Easy access to TrueCrypt from the command-line in OS X

TrueCrypt on Mac OS X has a nice GUI, but if you're a command-line afficionado... Put this in your ~/.bashrc or similar file: alias truecrypt='/Applications/TrueCrypt.app/Contents/MacOS/Truecrypt --text' Then you can do stuff...

Mac

My failed attempt at using autofs to automount TrueCrypt volumes on OS X

I was trying to make it as easy as possible to access our YNAB file which lives in an encrypted TrueCrypt volume. The idea was to have OS X autofs automount the TrueCrypt volume so that when YNAB starts and attempts to load our...