blogng/blog/2015-03-28-state-of-terminal-2015-edition.markdown

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comments: true
date: 2015-03-28 00:28
layout: post
tags: computing, emacs, osx, terminal, zsh
title: 'State of Terminal: 2015 Edition'
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I do this every year to keep track of the changes in my style. This is the first that goes public though

- I've moved to a __Macbook air 2013__ edition as my primary laptop (a work perk, thanks [\@plivo](https://twitter.com/plivo.com)).
- __Emacs__ is the primary editor - I use [el-get](https://github.com/dimitri/el-get) to manage my emacs packages (my `init.el` is [hosted here](https://github.com/dbalan/.emacs.d/blob/master/init.el)), I also use [`mg`](http://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg/) heavily while I'm inside a terminal.
- __iTerm2__ for terminal. (My [cheetsheet for for iterm is availabe here](https://gist.github.com/dbalan/378d2f3e4e6a27f0aae8))
- __zsh__ for shell, with [antigen](https://github.com/zsh-users/antigen) managing plugins and dependencies.
- __vagrant__ for VMs, I tried using `docker` with boot2docker, but my needs are diffrent. I just need a linux box that runs all the time.
- [__Spectacle__](http://spectacleapp.com/) to manage windows. (Yes, I do miss Xmonad and i3)
- __Firefox__ is the primary browser, sometimes __chromium__ running for some special sites and tasks.
- __Todoist__ is a great app to track todo lists, and the concept of  gaming the task completion frequency and awarding points is a joy!
- __Evernote__ everything goes inside this.
- __KeePassX__ manages all my passwords.
- __Tarsnap__ for backups, nuff said.
intial commit 2017-01-22 21:30:42 +00:00			`---`
			`comments: true`
Convert from old categories to tags import sys import yaml with open(sys.argv[1]) as fp: data = fp.read() if not data.find("---") == 0: # no head print("NO YAML HEAD FOUND") sys.exit(-1) data = data[3:] head_end = data.find("---") head = data[0:head_end] data = data[head_end+3:] metadata = yaml.safe_load(head) cats = metadata.pop('categories', None) if cats != None: if type(cats) == list: tags = cats elif type(cats) == str: tags = cats.split() tags = list(map(lambda t: t.lower(), tags)) metadata["tags"] = ", ".join(tags) new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}" # write it print(f"coverted: categories to tags: {tags} - {sys.argv[1]}") with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp: fp.write(new_data) sys.exit(0) if not metadata.get("tags", None): metadata["tags"] = "untagged" new_data = f"---\n{yaml.dump(metadata, default_flow_style=False)}---{data}" print(f"untagged: {sys.argv[1]}") # write it with open(sys.argv[1], "w") as fp: fp.write(new_data) sys.exit(0) print("No changes needed") 2019-01-28 22:16:27 +00:00			`date: 2015-03-28 00:28`
			`layout: post`
			`tags: computing, emacs, osx, terminal, zsh`
			`title: 'State of Terminal: 2015 Edition'`
intial commit 2017-01-22 21:30:42 +00:00			`---`
			`I do this every year to keep track of the changes in my style. This is the first that goes public though`

Migrate to tufte-css 2017-01-31 21:42:20 +00:00			`- I've moved to a __Macbook air 2013__ edition as my primary laptop (a work perk, thanks [\@plivo](https://twitter.com/plivo.com)).`
intial commit 2017-01-22 21:30:42 +00:00			- __Emacs__ is the primary editor - I use [el-get](https://github.com/dimitri/el-get) to manage my emacs packages (my `init.el` is [hosted here](https://github.com/dbalan/.emacs.d/blob/master/init.el)), I also use [`mg`](http://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg/) heavily while I'm inside a terminal.
			`- __iTerm2__ for terminal. (My [cheetsheet for for iterm is availabe here](https://gist.github.com/dbalan/378d2f3e4e6a27f0aae8))`
			`- __zsh__ for shell, with [antigen](https://github.com/zsh-users/antigen) managing plugins and dependencies.`
			- __vagrant__ for VMs, I tried using `docker` with boot2docker, but my needs are diffrent. I just need a linux box that runs all the time.
			`- [__Spectacle__](http://spectacleapp.com/) to manage windows. (Yes, I do miss Xmonad and i3)`
			`- __Firefox__ is the primary browser, sometimes __chromium__ running for some special sites and tasks.`
			`- __Todoist__ is a great app to track todo lists, and the concept of gaming the task completion frequency and awarding points is a joy!`
			`- __Evernote__ everything goes inside this.`
			`- __KeePassX__ manages all my passwords.`
			`- __Tarsnap__ for backups, nuff said.`