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The Problem

wkhtmltopdf is broken and cannot render multiple fonts because of some issues around names. See wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf#2435

Workaround

Pick an 8 or less char name for each font and variation e.g. HelvBold, HelvLite, TimeReg
Every variation needs to be a separate font file, with all the details renamed in Font Forge using the short name determined before.
Give the font files the same short name (e.g. HelvBold.ttf)

I've always had fzf and ripgrep on my radar, and I've finally gotten around to using them together. Good lord it makes a world of difference, especially when added to Vim as well as Bash.

Add the following snippet to your ~/.bashrc, this add's fzf keybindings to bash and gets fzf to use ripgrep by default for faster searching.

[ -f ~/.fzf.bash ] && source ~/.fzf.bash
export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='rg --files --no-ignore --hidden --follow --glob "!.git/*"'
bind -x '"\C-p": vim $(fzf);'

Okay now what can you do?

How to setup your VMWare Fusion images to use static IP addresses on Mac OS X

At Crush + Lovely, we use Railsmachine's Moonshine to automate the configuration of our servers. When writing our deployment recipes, VMWare Fusion's ability to take snapshots and rollback to these snapshots is a huge timesaver because it takes just seconds to roll a server image to it's original state.

When you're just configuring a single server, having a static IP address for your server image isn't too important, but when you're configuring multi-server setups, it can be useful to duplicate a number of server images and give each a static IP address so you can consistently deploy to them. While not documented well at all, it turns out that this is relatively easy to accomplish in four simple steps.

1. Determine the MAC address of your guest machine

Let's say you have a guest machine with the name ubuntu-lucid-lynx-base a

	import random
	import string
	import typing

	from django.conf import settings

	# if you have a Report-To service, add it to settings.py along with
	# adding ReportToMiddleware to settings.MIDDLEWARE

	# --------------------------------------------------------------------
	# Create SoundCloud-style waveforms from mp3 files
	# Author: David Cornu
	# Credit for the idea goes to http://cl.ly/292t2B09022I3S3X3N2O
	#
	# Requirements:
	# mpg123 - [ % brew install mpg123 ]
	# imagemagick - [ % brew install imagemagick ]
	# rmagick - [ % brew install rmagick ]
	#

	gitlab:
	image: 'gitlab/gitlab-ce:latest'
	container_name: gitlab
	restart: always
	hostname: 'gitlab.mcu.dc'
	environment:
	GITLAB_OMNIBUS_CONFIG: \|
	external_url 'http://gitlab.mcu.dc:8090'
	gitlab_rails['gitlab_shell_ssh_port'] = 2290
	gitlab_rails['smtp_enable'] = true

	from django import template
	from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse

	register = template.Library()

	@register.simple_tag
	def add_active(request, name, by_path=False):
	""" Return the string 'active' current request.path is same as name

	Keyword aruguments:

	from django.forms import ModelForm
	from django.forms.models import inlineformset_factory

	from models import Sponsor, Sponsorship


	class SponsorForm(ModelForm):

	class Meta:
	model = Sponsor

	# to generate your dhparam.pem file, run in the terminal
	openssl dhparam -out /etc/nginx/ssl/dhparam.pem 2048

	#!/bin/bash

	set -e
	set -u

	altool="$(dirname "$(xcode-select -p)")/Applications/Application Loader.app/Contents/Frameworks/ITunesSoftwareService.framework/Support/altool"
	ipa="path/to/foo.ipa"

	echo "Validating app..."
	time "$altool" --validate-app --type ios --file "$ipa" --username "$ITC_USER" --password "$ITC_PASSWORD"