A mini adventure at MiniDebConf Toulouse Last week, I ventured to Toulouse, for a delightful mix of coding, conversation, and crepes at MiniDebConf Toulouse , part of the broader Capitole du Libre conference , akin to the more well-known FOSDEM but with a distinctly French flair. This was my fourth and final MiniDebConf of the year. My trek to Toulouse was seamless. I hopped on a bus from my home…
In November 2021 I filed a feature request for the fish shell to add underscore as a thousand separator in numbers . My feature request has been implemented and is available in fish 3.5.0 , released 16 June 2022. The fish shell supports mathematical operations using the math command. edward @x1c9 ~ > math 2_000 + 22 2022 edward @x1c9 ~ > The underscore can be used as a thousand separator, but…
Find link is a tool that I wrote for adding links between articles in Wikipedia. Given an article title, find link will find other articles that include the entered article title but no link to the article. There is the option to edit the found articles and add the missing link. For example, you might want to find missing links to the gig economy article . I originally wrote the tool in 2008 when…
Codespell is a spell checker specifically designed for finding misspellings in source code. I've been using it to correct spelling mistakes in GitHub repos sine 2016. Most spell checkers use a list of valid words and highlighting any word in a document that is not in the word list. This method doesn't work for source code because code contains abbreviations and words joined together without…