Friday, November 28, 2014

Make newly added files show up in git diff output

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Sometimes it's handy to be able to show a normal diff for all the changes in a patch. The default behaviour is to hide the diffs of new...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Thunderbolt DMA attacks on OS X

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The current TL;DR on Thunderbolt DMA attacks is that the VT-d IOMMU is doing its job and Ivy-Bridge (2012 and later hardware) Macs running O...
Sunday, November 9, 2014

SMTP email conversation threads with python: making gmail associate messages into a thread

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I have some python software that sends emails, and I wanted gmail to group messages that were related to the same subject in a conversation....
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Splitting an array into fixed-size chunks with python

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If you're looking for a way to split data into fixed size chunks with python you're likely to run across this recipe from the iterto...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Authenticode signing windows executables on linux

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We had a particularly painful build and sign workflow that required multiple trips between linux and windows.  I looked around and found the...
Monday, October 6, 2014

Python: add an element to an array only if a filter function returns True

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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...

Mocking out python OS specific imports

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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...