Roman M. Yagodin roman-yagodin

Configure Git to use a proxy

In Brief

You may need to configure a proxy server if you're having trouble cloning or fetching from a remote repository or getting an error like unable to access '...' Couldn't resolve host '...'.

Consider something like:

GitHub Flavored Asciidoc (GFA)

This can reduce files to ~15% of their size (2.3M to 345K, in one case) with no obvious degradation of quality.

ghostscript -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf

Other options for PDFSETTINGS:

/screen selects low-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Screen Optimized" setting.
/ebook selects medium-resolution output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "eBook" setting.
/printer selects output similar to the Acrobat Distiller "Print Optimized" setting.
/prepress selects output similar to Acrobat Distiller "Prepress Optimized" setting.

How to GTD with Simpletask

This is a guide to implementing Getting Things Done (GTD) using [Simpletask][] by [Mark Janssen][].

Simpletask uses the [todo.txt][] syntax, but has sufficient differences and quirks of its own to be worth describing in detail---at least, that's the story I'm going with. I actually began this guide as an exploration of my own trusted system. Personal workflows are by definition eccentric; I have included only what seems to me to be broadly useful.

This implementation of GTD covers the "standard" classifications: next actions by context, projects, somedays, agendas by person and meeting, etc. In a departure from strict GTD, each entry in these lists is also tagged with an area of focus, interest or responsibility. I find that the ability to slice the system by this extra dimension is worth the additional complexity at the processing and organizing stages. Limitations, issues and workarounds are discussed at the end.

Before we begin, some words of wisdom

	<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">

	<!--
	How to define a variable.
	Just stick a new node in a property group.
	-->
	<PropertyGroup>
	<!-- This node in a property group will define a variable -->
	<TestVariable>Test Variable Value</TestVariable>

	using System;
	using System.Text;
	using NGettext;
	using R7.Webmate.Xwt.Icons;
	using R7.Webmate.Xwt.Text;
	using Xwt;

	namespace R7.Webmate.Xwt
	{
	public class HelloWorldWidget : Widget

	#!/bin/sh -x

	# This script compiles Android debug and release templates from a Godot Git clone.
	# It needs to be run from a GNU/Linux system. The compilation process will automatically
	# use all CPU threads available.
	# You will need to install Android SDK (API 19) and NDK (latest, as of May 2016).

	# Place this script at the root of your Godot Git clone.
	# CC0 1.0 Universal