Add the following lines to ~/.gitconfig to load configuration only for repositories within a certain location:
[includeIf "gitdir:~/dev/work/"]
path = ~/dev/work/.gitconfig
For example, this can be used to set work email and signing keys.
Senior Web Engineer. Open web / music. Remote DJ. Tall Dutch guy. #3million
My hackable blog framework #Cuttlefish is nearing a 0.4 milestone and I’m very excited to have containerised the project and added basic API documentation using phpDox. Sneak preview the master branch at https://
Conditional .gitconfig
Added a quick example to the wp_schedule_event() codex page as all the examples provided are broken in some way. https://
I didn't know that Chassis extensions can be installed globally http://
I’m looking for a macOS tool that intercepts opening URLs and let me specificy regexes and associate them with browsers, so that when I open certain links from slack they always go into my project browser. Any ideas?
It turns out Breakmaster Cylinder's full discography (https://
Staying focused
If you follow this blog you will have noticed that I've commented multiple times on needless distractions that seem to have pervaded modern computing. Today, let's present a few solutions.
Firstly, when in the flow of doing deep work, watching animations delay your actions can be a source of frustration. While we can't speed up GitHub, we can speed up macOS. In the accessibility settings, check Display > Reduce Motion. This will speed up the interface and Mission Control animations. If you miss the garishness, you can turn it back off but chances are you will notice the system not getting in the way as much.
Secondly a tip for fellow Homebrew users. When you're ready to work through that difficult project tooling setup, it can be the worst time for Homebrew to decide to update it self, especially as this can take up to half a minute depending on how far behind your version is. Not now Homebrew! If you follow the instructions at Homebrew Autoupdate you can setup Homebrew to update itself in the background.
Finally, if you're using oh-my-zsh or bash equivalent, there will be a setting for it to update itself without prompting. Edit .zshrc and add DISABLE_UPDATE_PROMPT="true". I've not had any issues.
Cheers to a focused work experience!
Console.app happens to be the best .log file viewer I've ever used, for any logs - not just macOs system ones.
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How to fail your GDPR legislation TrustArc / Truste. Consent is opt-in.
@sander the problem is that these sites assume that they don’t need to earn our consent, that it’s a given. And they wonder why so many people use tracker blocking...
, Jan 02 2020 on micro.blog
@AlanRalph can’t change other people only yourself is my mantra.
, Jan 02 2020 on micro.blog
Saw on the news a train season ticket between Glasgow and Edinburgh is now £4200 a year. That’s £350 a month. For comparison, leasing a brand new Honda Jazz starts at £155 a month.
@sander I commuted regularly up until 2012, and it was over £200/month when I stopped. I dread to think what it’s up to now. And that was a relatively short trip within the same country on one line, albeit the West Coast Main Line.
, Jan 02 2020 on micro.blog
@AlanRalph yeah really I’ve not heard any justification for why tail travel is 6x more expensive than France.
, Jan 02 2020 on micro.blog
@sander yikes!
, Jan 02 2020 on micro.blog
It seems that HomeBrew on Linux is a good way to install newer packages without having to trust PPA authors.
Pseudo elements and states are adding complexity to web design and are best uses sparingly. Every one adds a mode that must be tested individually and this adds up.
@sander Yep. As a journalist and news junkie I primarily visit news sites and adtech has made those BARELY usable.
, Dec 21 2019 on micro.blog
Going to have to investigate whether to improve Known or switch to another blogging system. How is WordPress when posting from mobile these days?
@sander In a word, terrible. I mostly do linkbloging and microblogging and wordpress does not seem to be designed for that kind of lightweight activity. I struggle and wrestle with it and think about switching to something else daily. The wordpress iOS apps seem to be designed for longform blogging -- I say "seem to be" because for all I know it's rubbish for that as well.
If you're looking for an alternative blogging platform, how about micro.blog?
P.S. I do like your "note-taking" tab. I should do something similar for note-taking and writing, and another for task managers. Maybe another for blogging and social media tools. Those are three categories of tools I'm constantly fiddling with and never satisfied. For both note taking and writing I'm currently using IA Writer. But I have my eye on Bear -- gosh it's nice.
, Dec 21 2019 on micro.blog
@sander why not just use micro blog? It’s pretty great on mobile web and desktop
, Dec 21 2019 on micro.blog
@prologic I’ve been sticking to something I host and customise as I turn out to have opinions on this and like tinkering at least as much as writing.
, Dec 22 2019 on micro.blog
@MitchWagner yeah that’s why I left the WP system. WithKnown is pretty much there and posting is frictionless and I can still tinker with the code theoretically.
Re: note taking I kept forgetting why I dismissed something so it’s best written up. Thinking of doing the same for task and bookmark management.
, Dec 22 2019 on micro.blog
@MitchWagner I like writing in ia writer best it’s effortless.
, Dec 22 2019 on micro.blog
@sander I'd like to read about what you're doing about bookmark management. I looked into options a couple of months ago and concluded staying in the Safari-verse is the best of a bad lot of options.
, Dec 22 2019 on micro.blog
@sander I'm looking for the opposite -- blogging that I don't have to host or tinker with. That's why I went to wordpress.com a few months ago. wordpress.org kept flaking on me, often when I had other things to do.
Starting Thursday, I'm going to do daily digests of my links and found images. Easier for me and readers too, I think.
, Dec 22 2019 on micro.blog
Faster rendering through a Local DNS Proxy
Unless you're using DNS over HTTP (DoH), you can speed up general DNS requests by running a local DNS proxy, and increase the expiry time of DNS queries. I'll go into this further once I've updated this post for DNSMASQ to do DoH.
The following configuration will speed up browsing in Safari for example.
Install DNSMASQ:brew install dnsmasq
Load all configs from /etc/local/etc/dnsmasq.d/:echo "conf-dir=/usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d,*.conf" | sudo tee —append /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.confmkdir -p /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d
Edit /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d/proxy.conf:# Tell dnsmasq to get its DNS servers from this config file only.no-resolv# Add router dnsserver=192.168.1.1# cache for 1hmin-cache-ttl = 3600
Start DNSMASQ on boot and launch it:sudo brew services start dnsmasq
Test: dig cnn.com @127.0.0.1
Query time should be 0 the second time and an ANSWER SECTION should be returned. If that is the case open System Preferences > Network > Advanced > DNS > +
Enter: 127.0.0.1 and hit OK > Apply.
I start a zsh instance and I get interrupted by oh my zsh asking to update. #userhostile
I initiate a new Github Pull Request on a forked repo and it default destination is upstream/master #userhostile
Investigating https://
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