Technical notes, my online memory

We had a particularly painful build and sign workflow that required multiple trips between linux and windows.  I looked around and found the...

This post was going to be about a fairly obscure feature of Python I found, but is now a minor cautionary tale about trying to be too clever...

Testing python code that needs to run on a different OS is painful. A major part of the difficulty is that even though you can (somewhat) e...

With rename you get all the power of perl regex substitution in a simple interface. e.g. to backup all the .yaml files in a directory you c...

I finally bit the bullet and spent a bit of time learning some powershell and WMI querying basics. Unfortunately lots of the tutorials and ...

I wanted a cross platform (Mac/Win/Linux) method for calculating disk free space. For my application ideally I'd like to: read it out o...

I wanted to write a quick and dirty file-type identifier for Mach-O, turns out this is more tricky than I expected. From /usr/share/file/ma...