Synchronise two directories, e.g. Nextcloud and an encrypted USB drive with archive, recursive, partial, and progress flags:
rsync -varP src destination-
JSON
Following on from this post, I thought it might be good to think about JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Despite its name, JSON has evolved to be agnostic and is arguably the standard for exchanging information because its human readable and easy for computers to parse. JSON is two things: a collection of key value pairs,…
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Interact with API in Python
Overview of REST Representational State Transfer (REST) is a client server communication pattern, which defines some constraints: Any service that adhere to this is known as a REST web service and provides access via REST API, which listens for HTTP methods and responds with an HTTP response. These API expose public URI, or endpoints, performing…
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Code assistants
I’ve Co-pilot enabled while following a book, The Rust Programming Language (Klabnick and Nichols, 2023). Can’t help but notice that I get code recommendations that are identical to the book. I assume this is because not only is the book’s code on GitHub but there’s a bunch of people following along using GitHub. At what…
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CLI Corner: rsync
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Gogh
Check out these awesome terminal themes at http://gogh-co.github.io/Gogh/
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Excel – is it a working day?
Need to know if a date is a working day? Excel has a WORKDAY function which takes a date, adds to it, and tells you the next working day. What about if a specific day is a working day? Assuming the date is in A1:
=WORKDAY((A1-1),1)