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Slack Tweaks

In Fall 2023, Slack introduced an updated client with some unpopular UI changes. The tweaks in this document can be used to revert to the old client or hide the new side bar. These will reset every time you fully close Slack but they are easy to re-apply once you get the hang of it.

(Cross Platform) Open Dev Tools [Preferred Option]

To run any of these scripts, you'll need to open the Dev Tools (or Console). You can do this by typing /slackdevtools in a Slack channel or direct message. These are the same Dev Tools you'd get in Chrome if you hit F12. Along the top are tabs for Elements, Console, Sources, Network, etc. You'll want to paste these scripts into the Console tab at the > prompt.

If Slack disables this command, then you can open Dev Tools by setting a system-wide environment variable and using a keyboard shortcut to open the console. If /slackdevtools worked for you then you can skip these next two sections.

(Mac OS) Enable Dev Mode

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

Customizing GitBash Shell Prompt and Theme

As an example, lets assume we want to change / customize the following :

Change the Title of the GitBash window from default [MINGW64:/directoryName] to [Tushars Gitbash (Win64)]
Change the default prompt () to a customized prompt e.g [GitBash (Win64):> ]

👉 Note ($HOME/.bash_profile vs $HOME/.bashrc vs $HOME/.config):

The below described method only focusses on customizing the 'GitBash' prompt and NOT about customizing default 'Bash' prompt on Linux terminals. Hence this method uses the '$HOME/.config' folder for storing 'GitBash' prompt customization as per XDG Directory Specs. If you are looking for customizing default 'Bash' prompt for your Linux terminal you should be using '$HOME/.bashrc' for storing your customization and hence advised not to continue with this method.

Installing and using Visual Studio Code and g++ (plus other tools) for (re)learning programming (and some entertainment purposes) - Part 1 - Windows 10

Recently (actually not so recent...) I wanted to refresh my programming (and logical) skills. So I thought to try some available tools. I was not looking for professional tools, but for something - such an IDE - easy to use, ideally with a lot of help included. (still longing for something like the almost forgotten Turbo C and Turbo Pascal.)

I tried (and still using somewhat) CodeBlocks (http://www.codeblocks.org/ - works on Linux, Windows, MacOS). For educational purposes it is very simple to setup, one have to just download and install the version that contains the mingw tools. More details on their site. It is also easy to use, almost straightforward. Nonetheless, it can also deal with bigger projects.

I also tried NetBeans (https://netbeans.org/ - also working in Linux, Windows and MacOS) and DevC++ (https://sourceforge.net/projects/orwel

Conventional Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make a difference.

Tip

Take a look at git-conventional-commits , a CLI util to ensure these conventions, determine version and generate changelogs

Commit Message Formats

Default

My preferred code style is 2-space K&R. This is intended to provide a justification for this style.

Why K&R?

K&R style has the following properties:

Provides symmetric size (in terms of screen space consumed) between the opening and closing syntax of a clode block.
Forces no empty or meaningless lines, thereby avoiding artificial distance between related things that should be together.
Consumes the minimum vertical space while keeping the opening and closing syntax of a block on separate lines from the content.

Bash Shortcuts

Moving

command	description
ctrl + a	Goto BEGINNING of command line

Readline

GNU readline is a commonly used library for line-editing; it is used for example by Bash, FTP, and many more (see the details of [readline][5] package under "Required By" for more examples). readline is also customizable (see man page for details).

Keyboard Shortcut Description

Ctrl+l Clear the screen

	Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

	; This script restores the standard Windows 10 Libraries found in This PC (tested with Windows 10 1909)

	; == Restore 3D Objects Folder from This PC

	[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{0DB7E03F-FC29-4DC6-9020-FF41B59E513A}]

	[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\MyComputer\NameSpace\{0DB7E03F-FC29-4DC6-9020-FF41B59E513A}]

	# put this in your .bashrc or .zshrc

	fd() {
	preview="git diff $@ --color=always -- {-1}"
	git diff $@ --name-only \| fzf -m --ansi --preview $preview
	}