Technical notes, my online memory

Normal service enforcement is easy with puppet, it looks like this for an OS X launchdaemon: class something::myservice { File { owner ...

Use a debugger enough and you'll eventually be in a loop looking for a certain condition. And it's too tedious to walk through all ...

Tiny python snippet. If you're doing this: if value: output = value else: output = 'somethingelse' Do this instead: outp...

A basic python version of chmod for Windows using pywin32 : import ntsecuritycon import win32security DACL_PRESENT = 1 DACL_DEFAULT = 0 ...

Here's a quick way to stub out windows libraries when you are testing on Linux. This code creates empty modules using imp . import i...

I didn't actually realise how important code style guides were until I saw one consistently applied with style-checking tools: it makes ...

Chrome has a prodigious number of command line switches to control all sorts of behaviour. I recently ran into this one , which I think wi...