Alex Here are the steps that I too to merge multiple GitHub repos into one, while preserving all commit history. The process took about 30 minutes for 5 repos. As a result, I feel like my GitHub page is cleaner and code is actually better organized and easier to find. TLDR: Create new repo (or use … Read more
One year ago I decided to stop self-promoting this blog. Previously I would spend a lot of time submitting my links to Social Media sites such as Hacker News and Reddit. It was taking up a lot of my time and attention. I even got a warning from Hacker News admin for repeatedly submitting links … Read more
I often find myself with logs in the following format, exported in CSV. First column is timestamp in milliseconds, second column is timing for some request, also in milliseconds. Often I’d like to see the min, max and average request time, group by day and hour. Here is how to get this insight using Pandas … Read more
I was investigating a bug that would only happen in production and wanted to attach a debugger to a particular workflow. I could have run the entire application and attached remotely, via: In my case, I wanted to invoke a specific method and see what happens via Scala REPL. Turns out it’s pretty easy to … Read more
Update: 2021 I am now happily using new editor I usually update my WordPress as soon as I can for security reasons. I tried WordPress 5 and I did not like it. My main complain is that I write in WordPress using Markdown and it is not well supported in WordPress 5. My posts were … Read more
Ammonite is an interactive REPL for Scala, kind of like ipython is for Python. I usually use IntelliJ IDE for Scala (which has a REPL and debugger among other things). Ammonite is great replacement though, when I don’t want to start up full blown IDE. It’s really easy to get started with Ammonite. First it … Read more
My wife and I were watching Jack Ryan, where John Krasinski is playing an FBI analyst. I wanted to be like him, so I began to look for things to analyze. In the past I’ve done text analysis for comments left on Mark Zuckerbergs Facebook post, which I described in I Tried To Virtually Stalk … Read more
In this episode of tech companies behaving badly, I would like to call out Yelp for forcing users to download their mobile app. I am 90% certain that I was able to get full experience on mobile Yelp in the past. Now it forces me to download a mobile app if I want to view … Read more
My work used to be three miles away from my house, which was a huge blessing and my commute was guaranteed to be under 15 minutes. A month ago my work moved… Closer to my house. Now my commute is only 1.3 miles, making it an enjoyable 30 minute walk. I live in San Francisco/Bay … Read more
I should be able to lock my phone while using YouTube and still hear the sound in the background. Currently this functionally is only available to YouTube Premium subscribers for $12 a month. This is a bad business practice for YouTube and a bad thing for the world. Bad for Youtube Why is it bad … Read more