Simon Willison simonw

How I got a Yubikey working with a Dvorak keyboard and Karabiner-Elements

I needed to set up a new Yubikey device, which plugs into my Mac laptop via USB-C and injects one-time codes by pretending to be a keyboard.

Problem: I use Dvorak... so the Yubikey codes were coming through incorrectly and failing to work.

https://superuser.do/2014/10/22/yubikey-support-for-non-qwerty-keyboard-layouts-on-mac-os-x/ has a recipe for fixing this using Karabiner. But... those instructions are for an older Karabiner which is configured using XML files.

The latest Karabiner - Karabiner-Elements - uses a JSON configuration instead.

How to import a GitHub repository as a subdirectory of a new repository while maintaining commits and datestamps

There is probably a better way to do this, but this worked for me.

I had a repository called docsearch that I had been building a prototype in.

I wanted to move the contents of that repository into an existing repository called search_experiments - but I wanted the contents to live in a docsearch/ subdirectory rather than living in the root of the repo.

I solved this using the combination of git format-patch and git apply.

See this instead: https://gist.github.com/simonw/fe24758774d45ece0cf6

Bash one-liner I used to create toss-up.now.sh

git clone https://github.com/dwillis/toss-up \
    && csvs-to-sqlite toss-up/data/*.csv toss-up.db \
    && datasette publish now toss-up.db 
        --source_url=https://github.com/dwillis/toss-up \
        --install=datasette-vega \
        --install=datasette-cluster-map \
        --alias=toss-up.now.sh

	import click
	import sqlite3
	import dateparser

	count = 0

	c = sqlite3.connect("tweets.db")

	with click.progressbar(
	length=c.execute("select count(*) from tweets").fetchone()[0],

	FROM alpine:edge

	RUN apk add --update \
	python3 \
	python3-dev \
	build-base \
	&& python3 -m ensurepip \
	&& rm -r /usr/lib/python*/ensurepip \
	&& pip3 install --upgrade pip setuptools \
	&& pip3 install starlette uvicorn \

	FROM python:3.6-slim-stretch as csvbuilder

	# This one uses csvs-to-sqlite to compile the DB, and then uses datasette
	# inspect to generate inspect-data.json Compiling pandas takes way too long
	# under alpine so we use slim-stretch for this one instead.

	RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y python3-dev gcc
	COPY *.csv csvs/
	RUN pip install csvs-to-sqlite datasette
	RUN csvs-to-sqlite csvs/names.csv data.db -f "name" -c "legislature" -c "country"

	import math
	import struct
	import sqlite3


	conn = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
	conn.executescript("""
	CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE docs USING fts4(c0, c1);
	INSERT INTO docs (c0, c1) VALUES ("this is about a dog", "more about that dog dog");
	INSERT INTO docs (c0, c1) VALUES ("this is about a cat", "stuff on that cat cat");