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Migrate Multiple Databases to Single New Database

We are doing a multiple database migration into a new single database. The wrinkle here is that one database we are migrating is a copy of one of the other databases we are migrating. At some point in...

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Link Roundup Friday March 2020

A few links I don’t want to lose track of are below, perhaps some of you will also find them useful.20 Journaling Prompts I Swear by to Get You out of Your Head - Journaling helps get stuff out of your...

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Python Simulations

Good article over at Real Python on Simulating Real-World Processes With Python that includes a walk through using an example.

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Note Writing

I’ve been slowing focusing more on my writing — in a journal, status updates, client communications and documentation. Part of improving my writing is the taking of notes. The way I’ve taken notes has...

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Punctuation Em Dash

To quote:The em dash is perhaps the most versatile punctuation markUseful site called thepunctuationguide.com details how to use the em dash and many other punctuation marks.

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Footnotes in Markdown

Using markdown is great. Creating and using footnotes in markdown is very manual. Painful even.So I’ve created a Keyboard Maestro shortcut to make them easier.What it does is run a shell script to get...

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Command P to Print

David Sparks over at macsparky.com has forever had the post on how to print using ⌘P⌘P to print to PDF. Last September he posted that it had now become canon at Apple.This post is simply so I can find...

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Jekyll Now Reinstall

Having migrated to a new laptop, I needed to reinstall Jekyll Now. And it failed. But then it worked.Because I was able to clone the git repo to my local, and that repo was already configured/set for...

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How I Manage Email

My sister commented that she needs a system to manage her email. I’m not the best at this, but I do have a system that works for me. This is how I manage email.I draw on a couple of principles from...

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