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I kept needing a cache method that would only store a value permanently if the result was truthy. For expensive operations that might return null or false, I wanted to keep trying until I got a real result, then cache that forever. The problem Laravel’s Cache::rememberForever() caches any result, including null/false values. Fairly often I want to cache successful results and keep retrying failed ones. The solution Add this macro to your AppServiceProvider boot method: ...

Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, etc are convenient for automatically pulling relevant files from your codebase when asking questions but with difficult or sprawling questions I get much better results by manually selecting the files I want to include. To simplify this manual process, I wrote a small script named catcopy. What catcopy does catcopy takes a regex pattern, searches the codebase for matching filenames, gets the contents of each, and copies to the clipboard broke up with big markdown headers. ...

View the commit history for a particular file with git on the command line: git log --follow -p -- filename

Full screen is super annoying on OS X lately. I use SizeUp which gives me a shortcut for expanding the windows instead of using the green button but i’m still having random encounters with full screen mode because of the shortcut ctrl+shift+f. So here’s how to disable that..or at least make it harder to do by accident: # Change full screen shortcut to Shift + Ctrl + Opt + Cmd + F defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add "Enter Full Screen" "$~^@F"

/* remove all default background images from jquery ui */ .ui-icon,.ui-widget-content .ui-icon, .ui-state-active .ui-icon, .ui-state-active,.ui-widget-content .ui-state-active,.ui-widget-header .ui-state-active, .ui-state-default .ui-icon, .ui-state-default,.ui-widget-content .ui-state-default,.ui-widget-header .ui-state-default, .ui-state-error .ui-icon,.ui-state-error-text .ui-icon, .ui-state-error,.ui-widget-content .ui-state-error,.ui-widget-header .ui-state-error, .ui-state-highlight .ui-icon, .ui-state-highlight,.ui-widget-content .ui-state-highlight,.ui-widget-header .ui-state-highlight, .ui-state-hover .ui-icon,.ui-state-focus .ui-icon, .ui-state-hover,.ui-widget-content .ui-state-hover,.ui-widget-header .ui-state-hover,.ui-state-focus,.ui-widget-content .ui-state-focus,.ui-widget-header .ui-state-focus, .ui-widget-content, .ui-widget-header, .ui-widget-header .ui-icon, .ui-widget-overlay, .ui-widget-shadow { background-image: none; }

The easiest way to update git to 2.2.1 or higher is to use homebrew. brew install git If you get a command not found error, you can install homebrew from brew.sh (scroll down for a one liner, i won’t copy it here in case it updates). If you get a different error, check out Updating homebrew on yosemite.

The Error $ brew /usr/local/bin/brew: /usr/local/Library/brew.rb: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby: bad interpreter: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/brew: line 21: /usr/local/Library/brew.rb: Undefined error: 0 $ brew doctor /usr/local/bin/brew: /usr/local/Library/brew.rb: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby: bad interpreter: No such file or directory /usr/local/bin/brew: line 21: /usr/local/Library/brew.rb: Undefined error: 0 The Fix Make homebrew think /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8 still exists until you successfully update: cd /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions sudo ln -s Current 1.8 brew update sudo rm 1.8

If you’re getting errors like: Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing pg: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb checking for pg_config... yes Using config values from /usr/local/bin/pg_config checking for libpq-fe.h... yes checking for libpq/libpq-fs.h... yes checking for pg_config_manual.h... yes checking for PQconnectdb() in -lpq... no checking for PQconnectdb() in -llibpq... no checking for PQconnectdb() in -lms/libpq... no Can't find the PostgreSQL client library (libpq) *** extconf.rb failed *** Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more details. You may need configuration options. Provided configuration options: --with-opt-dir --without-opt-dir --with-opt-include --without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include --with-opt-lib --without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib --with-make-prog --without-make-prog --srcdir=. --curdir --ruby=/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.0/usr/bin/ruby --with-pg --without-pg --with-pg-config --without-pg-config --with-pg_config --without-pg_config --with-pg-dir --without-pg-dir --with-pg-include --without-pg-include=${pg-dir}/include --with-pg-lib --without-pg-lib=${pg-dir}/ --with-pqlib --without-pqlib --with-libpqlib --without-libpqlib --with-ms/libpqlib --without-ms/libpqlib Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/pg-0.17.1 for inspection. Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/pg-0.17.1/ext/gem_make.out Try: ...

Python’s get_tld works very well but is slow if you’re looking up a batch of domain names. Here’s a faster version that falls back on get_tld: from tld import get_tld import re def quick_tld(url): tld_prog = re.compile(r'(?P<tld>[^./]+\.(com|net|org|co\.uk))($|/)') ip_prog = re.compile(r'\b\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\b') try: tld_match = tld_prog.search(url) if tld_match: return tld_match.group('tld') elif ip_prog.match(article.url): return None else: return get_tld(url) except Exception as e: pass return None

The octet_length function returns the length in bytes size of a bytea field. From the docs: “Number of bytes in binary string”. SELECT octet_length(the_data_field) FROM table_name; # byte size More binary string functions