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...
View ArticleLink 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...
View ArticlePython Simulations
Good article over at Real Python on Simulating Real-World Processes With Python that includes a walk through using an example.
View ArticleNote 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...
View ArticlePunctuation 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.
View ArticleFootnotes 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...
View ArticleCommand 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...
View ArticleJekyll 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...
View ArticleHow 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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