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Toggle MacOS X Notification Center on or off

This gist is to remind me (and anyone else who it helps) how to quickly disable and re-enable Notification Center.

Set Up Bash Aliases

Installation

Open your terminal (<⌘ + ␣ (spacebar)>, then type "terminal", then press <↩ (enter)>).

Using git-submodules to version-control Vim plugins

If you work across many computers (and even otherwise!), it's a good idea to keep a copy of your setup on the cloud, preferably in a git repository, and clone it on another machine when you need. Thus, you should keep the .vim directory along with your .vimrc version-controlled.

But when you have plugins installed inside .vim/bundle (if you use pathogen), or inside .vim/pack (if you use Vim 8's packages), keeping a copy where you want to be able to update the plugins (individual git repositories), as well as your vim-configuration as a whole, requires you to use git submodules.

Creating the repository

Initialize a git repository inside your .vim directory, add everything (including the vimrc), commit and push to a GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab repository:

cd ~/.vim

Getting Things Done (GTD)

Recently, I started listening to the David Allen's audio book, "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity". In only a few chapters, this audio book has inspired me to completely revamp how I "get things done".

While I haven't heard the entire GTD system or even fully grasped everything I've heard, here are a few concepts that have already helped me become more productive at work and helped my family become more productive at home.

Get it out of your head

TLDR: always put actions, ideas, and reminders in a place that gets them out of your head but always in reach.

	#!/bin/bash

	# Functions ==============================================

	# return 1 if global command line program installed, else 0
	# example
	# echo "node: $(program_is_installed node)"
	function program_is_installed {
	# set to 1 initially
	local return_=1

	<$publications>
	[#<$citeKey/>]: <$authors.name?>
	<$authors.name.stringByRemovingTeX.@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd/><?$authors.name?><$editors.name.stringByRemovingTeX.@componentsJoinedByCommaAndAnd/> (Hrsg.)
	</$authors.name?>
	<$fields.Year?> (<$fields.Year/>)</$fields.Year?>: _<$fields.Title.stringByRemovingTeX/><$fields.Subtitle?>. <$fields.Subtitle.stringByRemovingTeX/></$fields.Subtitle?>_<$pubType=article?>
	, <$fields.Journal/><$fields.Number?> <$fields.Number/></$fields.Number?>, <$fields.Year/>, Vol. <$fields.Volume/>, S. <$fields.Pages/><?$pubType=incollection?>
	, in: <$fields.Booktitle/><$fields.Address?>, <$fields.Address/>: <$fields.Publisher?><$fields.Publisher/></$fields.Publisher?><?$fields.Address?>
	<$fields.Publisher?>, <$fields.Publisher/></$fields.Publisher?>
	</$fields.Address?>
	<?$pubType?>

	"""
	Convert YouTube subtitles(vtt) to human readable text.

	Download only subtitles from YouTube with youtube-dl:
	youtube-dl --skip-download --convert-subs vtt <video_url>

	Note that default subtitle format provided by YouTube is ass, which is hard
	to process with simple regex. Luckily youtube-dl can convert ass to vtt, which
	is easier to process.