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FreeBSD on a MacBook Pro

Since 2008 or 2009 I work on Apple hardware and OS: back then I grew tired of Linux desktop (which is going to be MASSIVE NEXT YEAR, at least since 2001), and switched to something that Just Works. Six years later, it less and less Just Works, started turning into spyware and nagware, and doesn't need much less maintenance than Linux desktop — at least for my work, which is system administration and software development, probably it is better for the mythical End User person. Work needed to get software I need running is not less obscure than work I'd need to do on Linux or othe Unix-like system. I am finding myself turning away from GUI programs that I used to appreciate, and most of the time I use OSX to just run a terminal, Firefox, and Emacs. GUI that used to be nice and unintrusive, got annoying. Either I came full circle in the last 15 years of my computer usage, or the OSX experience degraded in last 5 years. Again, this is from a sysadmin/developer ki

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#!/bin/sh
set -e

# git-pass
# ========

# This script allows easy usage of http://www.passwordstore.org/ with
# multiple, Git-managed stores. It works both as self-standing shell
# script (that can be committed to the repository itself), or as a Git
# subcommand (in which case it should reside somewhere in $PATH or in

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A Continuous Packaging Pipeline

A list of tools mentioned in my Ignite talk from Devopsdays Rome 2012 on a continuous packaging pipeline, with links and short description for each tool.

The talk slides are at https://speakerdeck.com/mpasternacki/a-continuous-packaging-pipeline; a longer blog post will be written soon.

Vendorificator

Available at https://github.com/3ofcoins/vendorificator/ or with gem install vendorificator

Include third party modules in your git repo, using pristine branches to sanely maintain local changes, upgrades, and merges.

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#
# Author:: Maciej Pasternacki (<maciej@pasternacki.net>)
# Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2010 Maciej Pasternacki
# License:: Apache License, Version 2.0
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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# Trace 'print' statement calls cluttering your test suite output.
#
# It is not that simple to track 'print' statement in Python 2.x - it
# cannot be monkey-patched itself, because it's not a function. So we
# override sys.stdout and check the backtrace when stdout is written
# to.
#
# The overload happens only if TRACE_PRINT environment variable is
# set. By default, only the offending file name and line number is
# printed; if TRACE_PRINT environment variable is set to 'traceback',

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#!/usr/bin/env perl

use feature 'switch';
use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;
use File::Basename;
use File::Copy;
use File::Path qw/make_path/;

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#!/usr/bin/env python

import json
import sys

def pp(vv, prefix='$'):
    if isinstance(vv, (list,tuple)):
        for i, v in enumerate(vv):
            pp(v, "{0}[{1}]".format(prefix, i))
    elif isinstance(vv, dict):

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#!/bin/sh
#
# This script activates a Gem Bundler environment in current shell
# session. This lets you type commands without `bundle exec` all the
# time, even if you leave the project's directory, and without complex
# magic that runs with every command.
#
# Usage: save this file somewhere. Use following command to activate
# current directory's bundle in current shell session:
#

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#!/usr/bin/env perl -w
#
#            DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
#                    Version 2, December 2004
#
# Copyright (C) 2013 Maciej Pasternacki <maciej@pasternacki.net>
#
# Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
# copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
# as the name is changed.

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require 'fileutils'
require 'open-uri'
require 'yaml'

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'

FileUtils.mkdir_p 'items'

feed = Nokogiri::XML(File.open('3fc1319c496ea1aacde451cecbdc17e3.rss'))