git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global

Note that the path given to git config should be an absolute path.

There are three types of Office add-ins: Task pane, Content, and Mail. These have different schema definitions at the top of the file. Consequently, it’s not possible to combine these three different types of Office add-ins. If an add-in needs mail permissions, it cannot work in Word, and if it requires document permissions, it cannot work in Outlook.

I am currently using Dart to rewrite the entire application, which is fundamentally simple. It receives words in Turkish or Ottoman and translates them to Ottoman or Turkish. However, the parsing module needs more rules to divide the words (and phrases) into roots and suffixes. There are hundreds of rules, and using only code to describe the reasoning behind parsing seems to be the main reason I spend so much time trying to understand my own work.

I decided that I can just use knot to write the rules in a document and generate the code from it. It will surely take more time than just writing the code, but in the end, I will have a document describing the analysis and parsing rules that even I can understand.

  In[1]: 10 + 10

 Out[1]: 20.0


           _____
  In[2]: ╲╱ 100

 Out[2]: 10.0


             ┌                  ┐
  In[3]: Max │ 10 , 1 , 21 , -3 │
             └                  ┘

 Out[3]: 21.0


  In[4]: ⟨Emre's Number⟩ ≡  79

 Out[4]: 79.0


           _______________
  In[5]: ╲╱ Emre's Number

 Out[5]: 8.888194417315589


                      2
  In[6]: Emre's Number

 Out[6]: 6241.0


                      Emre's Number
  In[7]: Emre's Number

 Out[7]: 8.1759873707105095e149

It looks a bit heavy for a CLI calculator, as it is written in Haskell and downloads 100+ MB of libraries, but when you need ASCII art to display your calculations or want to use spaces in variable names, it may prove useful.

• I began to use Intention to limit my Twitter time. It allows you to set a limited time (1, 5, 10, or 15 minutes) for yourself and tracks the total time you spend on addictive sites. When this total time is lower than your goal for a period, you get a streak. It looks visually and psychologically nicer than LeechBlock.

• I read the git reset section in the Git book. It details how git reset behaves with its --soft, --mixed, and --hard parameters. The first resets only the HEAD; the second resets both the index and HEAD; and the third resets the working tree and copies files back from the current HEAD to the working tree.

  One important point: Contrasting git checkout master and git reset master: the first moves HEAD to the master branch, while the second moves the current branch to master.

  git reset can also be used to squash commits. Basically, you git reset --mixed to an earlier commit like HEAD~3 and recommit. This creates a new commit, taking HEAD~3 as the parent and skipping HEAD~2 and HEAD~1, resulting in a new HEAD.

• Here are many useful pure Bash functions to be used in scripts. I’m a Zsh person, but writing Bash scripts is more portable, of course.

For some UTF-8 files, there is a BOM marker at the beginning of the file. The script (as a true quick and dirty solution) doesn’t check for the presence of such a marker and cannot detect the Title element if it exists.

I added an fm = fm.strip('\ufeff') line to clear the BOM marker from a line if it exists.

There is an editor called bvi to edit binary files in Hex format, similar to the vi editor.

The one that is most proven and ready to scale is based on a technology called LSPR. The team building it originally developed the device to monitor the status of the immune system, but it is easily adapted to detect the proteins on the surface of the virus instead of the proteins used for immune signaling. It’s able to detect even a very small number of viral particles, which is very important because we want to detect everyone who is contagious. Waiting for symptoms such as a fever or antibodies is too slow to stop the spread. What’s exciting is that they are creating a very sensitive test that can be mass produced at low cost (less than $1/test).

The solution is simple: add the following line to your ~/.ideavimrc file:

set clipboard+=unnamed