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Google Chrome: A Memory Hog - Bits, Bytes, and Words

http://blog.jez.io/2014/12/29/google-chrome-a-memory-hog

Studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Working at Dropbox. Previously at Bloomberg L.P. Google Chrome: A Memory Hog. December 29, 2014. Why does Chrome Hog Memory? An article posted to Hacker News. For the impatient, here’s the code. It uses standard Unix tools:. Awk {for(i=1;i =NF;i )s =$i}END{print s}. Pretty isn’t it? If you want to save this as an alias for handy use, add this line to your /.bashrc (or appropriate configuration file):. Add as an alias. First, we’ll need a program that te...

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Intro to Columns in HTML - Bits, Bytes, and Words

http://blog.jez.io/2014/12/26/intro-to-columns-in-html

Studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Working at Dropbox. Previously at Bloomberg L.P. Image source: Wikimedia Commons. Intro to Columns in HTML. December 26, 2014. HTML and CSS can be frustrating when first starting out. Despite all you try, nothing is in the right place. I’ve advised more than a few friends on how to figure out this mystery and I’ve noticed a pattern: people don’t realize they should be using a grid. Blocks and Inline Elements. The easiest way to explain block and inline elemen...

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Noteworthy Dotfile Hacks - Bits, Bytes, and Words

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Studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Working at Dropbox. Previously at Bloomberg L.P. March 10, 2015. There are some hidden gems in my dotfiles. This is a post to showcase them, putting them front and center. This post is designed to bring the coolest parts of my dotfiles to the top. It’s organized by topic, so feel free to skip around. Throughout this post, I’ll be linking to my dotfiles. At a specific commit. Branch for the most up-to-date version. Also, I just wrote. I bind the prefix key to.

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New GitHub Username - Bits, Bytes, and Words

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Studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Working at Dropbox. Previously at Bloomberg L.P. February 03, 2015. I’ve changed my GitHub username from Z1MM32M4N to jez (hopefully it’ll be a little easier to type now! Make sure you update any remote URLs for repos of mine that you’ve cloned. Updating your Git remotes. If you’ve cloned one of my repositories, you can update it’s URL by running. To check the current remote URL, which should look something like. Https:/ github.com/Z1MM32M4N/ repo name. Steph...

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Docker Tips and Cheatsheet - Bits, Bytes, and Words

http://blog.jez.io/2015/07/12/docker-tips-and-cheatsheet

Studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Working at Dropbox. Previously at Bloomberg L.P. Docker Tips and Cheatsheet. July 12, 2015. Making your Docker experience easier: Docker Compose. Half the complexity of Docker is wrapped up in its large, verbose set of command line arguments and flags. Luckily, Docker has a tool called Docker Compose. That lets us translate all our command line flags into a. I’ll be mixing-and-matching my favorite. Commands through the rest of the post. Awk {print $1;}. Docke...

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Vim as a Man Page Viewer - Bits, Bytes, and Words

http://blog.jez.io/2014/12/20/vim-as-a-man-page-viewer

Studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Working at Dropbox. Previously at Bloomberg L.P. Vim as a Man Page Viewer. December 20, 2014. Man pages are an essential part of every developer’s workflow. Unfortunately, the default system pager. Isn’t the best interface. That’s why I wrote a Vim plugin and a short shell function to take care of opening man pages in Vim. If you’re eager to dive right into the source or to install the plugin, head on over to the GitHub repository. All the benefits of Vim.

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Show Where a Python Package Is Used - Bits, Bytes, and Words

http://blog.jez.io/2015/06/12/show-where-a-python-package-is-used

Studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Working at Dropbox. Previously at Bloomberg L.P. Show where a Python package is used. June 12, 2015. A while back I was doing some spring cleaning of my Python packages. I noticed that there were a bunch of packages that I couldn’t recall installing. I wanted to know if I could safely remove them, so I wrote a simple bash script to tell me called. It’s in my bin repository. Where I keep my notable helper scripts; feel free to poke around. It’d be nice if.

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Studying computer science at Carnegie Mellon. Working at Dropbox. Previously at Bloomberg L.P. Bits, Bytes, and Words. Vim and Haskell in 2016 on OS X. Let’s Have a Chat about Encryption. Leaking Free Disk Space. Docker Tips and Cheatsheet. Show where a Python package is used. Getting Started with RCM. Vim as an IDE. Mastering git log for Collaboration. The LaTeX homework Document Class. Offline LaTeX Development - Part 2. Google Chrome: A Memory Hog. Intro to Columns in HTML. Vim as a Man Page Viewer.