Mostly Dev – it's what I do

Monitoring the Health of ZFS Volumes on MacOS

wojtek · 2019-02-102019-02-11

In this post I offer a couple of Launch Agents that run scrub operations and perform regular health checks, as well as notify about, degradation of ZFS volumes.

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Importing PayPal CSV into Wave Accounting

wojtek · 2019-01-052024-01-23

If you ever find yourself importing historical PayPal transactions into Wave Accounting, you’ll likely discover that PayPal’s exports aren’t very digestible. The key issues with PayPal CSV files are: There’s some discussion in Wave forums about resolving this problem by making new rows, but this takes time. So, I’ve made a little script in Ruby …

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RubyMine – JetBrains spring cleaning

wojtek · 2018-05-172018-05-20

RubyMine and other JetBrains products have a tendency to clutter up their settings, which can cause issues with debugging and rake tasks, as well as create strange duplicates in the Ruby SDK and Gems menu. The best (only) solution I found for this problem is to periodically clear out all of the preferences, settings, and …

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Add’r’Up. A poker prize calculator.

wojtek · 2018-04-052020-10-21

Ever have trouble dividing up a stack of Texas Hold’em pot into a fair set of prizes? This little calculator will divide up your stack of bills into two or more prizes, depending on the total amount. Try it here, and do send me a note if you do or don’t like it: https://mostlydev.github.io/add-r-up/ In …

Mosh from MacOS with scroll

wojtek · 2018-01-102018-01-10

Mosh is an incredibly useful shell replacement. However, it suffers from a pretty big drawback: it doesn’t allow you to scroll back in the terminal buffer. This makes it pretty useless when it comes to administering servers, since you can’t run commands like tail -f and expect to achieve anything productive. Here is a relatively …

Finding a Shopify resource using the ruby ShopifyAPI

wojtek · 2017-10-282017-10-28

Took me a while to find this, so here it is for posterity. In case you want to find an arbitrary Shopify resource using the ShopifyAPI gem, here’s the general syntax: ShopifyAPI::Order.find(:all, params: { field: term }) As an example, finding a Shopify order by number (as opposed to by ID): ShopifyAPI::Order.find(:all, params: { name: …

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What to do when a macOS Sierra setup doesn’t start

wojtek · 2017-09-022017-09-03

This post describes what to do when the Install macOS Sierra app doesn’tor won’t start. This can happen when you try to upgrade through the App Store — where it just sits in a “Downloaded” state — or also when you double-click the application manually. If you’d like to skip to the commands, click here. …

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GetBowtied and Merchandiser slowing you down?

wojtek · 2017-08-292017-08-30

One of my customers’ WordPress sites suddenly started to take north of 10 – 15 seconds per page load. They use WooCommerce, with the Merchandiser theme (not my pick) — which also uses the getbowtied-tools plug-in. In addition to WP’s typically slow stack, GetBowtied appears to be making external calls on every single page load. …

A masterful tribute

wojtek · 2015-04-07

Amazing that someone with such a piercing grasp of popular politics can write equally well about such an esoteric topic. Billie Holiday: Don’t Explain http://www.steynonline.com/6896/dont-explain

On wealth inequality and social exclusion

wojtek · 2015-03-242015-04-01

Social science has produced a metric called “relative poverty”, and another, related to this, called “wealth inequality”. The notion that this is a bad thing has turned into a sort of political “Amen”, and has been recently used to belittle the regional economic miracles that are both Singapore, and Israel. Both are often referred to …