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Over the years I've tried a variety of sofware solutions to todo lists but I always find that eventually I end up just opening a empty file and typing a text list. It's just so straight forward. Almost as if writing a list in a notebook, which of course is the ultimate todo list solution.
Anyhow I've been adding quite a lot of aliases to my dotfiles recently and I wondered if I could add just a few that would make the bare essentials of a todo list system. These are the aliases that I came up with:
{% highlight bash %}
alias 'slugd=date +%Y-%m-%d'
alias 'todos=cd $TODOS_DIR'
alias 'tdf=echo $TODOS_DIR/$(ls $TODOS_DIR | tail -n 1)'
alias 'tdt=echo $TODOS_DIR/$(slugd).txt'
alias 'tde=e $(tdf)'
alias 'tdd=echo "### $(date "+%A %d %B, %Y") ###"'
alias 'tda=cat $(tdf); echo'
alias 'tdc=cat $(tdf) | grep "[x]"'
alias 'tdi=cat $(tdf) | grep "[ ]"'
alias 'tdn=TODOS=$(tdi); ! test -f $(tdt) && tdd > $TODOS_DIR/$(slugd).txt && echo >> $(tdf) && echo "$TODOS" >> $(tdf) && tda'
{% endhighlight %}
It's all very standard shell scripting, the aliases get loaded from .bash_aliases or similar. The only complicated one is tdn which only creates the new todos file if one doesn't already exist for the current day to avoid accidentally overwritting an existing list.
In practive the only aliases you actually use are tdn, tda and tde.
That's it just 3 aliases to remember and it's pretty close to using a notebook. The only configuration necessary is to set TODOS_DIR environment variable somewhere that gets loaded by the shell automically like your shell's .bashrc file.
Here is what a todo list file looks like:
{% highlight bash %}
~ $ tda
[ ] Install new theme on blog
[ ] Deploy live keys to payments pages
[ ] Troubleshoot failed mail deliveries
[ ] Add links to freelancer github repo on payment pages
[x] Troubleshoot github remotes issue on markjgsmith.com
[x] Troubleshoot freelancer left pane image centering issue
[ ] Re-organise dotfiles and dotfiles local
[x] Add todo aliases to dotfiles
[ ] New blog post: The dead simple todos system
~ $
{% endhighlight %}
The real test of course is tomorrow morning when I create a new todo list.
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I've been making quite a lot of modifications to the blog recently. The blog is generated by Jekyll a tool written in the ruby programming language. I have been seeing a lot of warning messages about ruby versions during builds, so it's time to try to figure out what's going on.
Everytime I've ventured into this area it's been full of confusing articles and definitions that don't seem to quite match up. I found an article comparing the rvm and rbenv ruby version managers, which along with my browsing various ruby sites and blogs and quite a lot of head scratching resulted in the followng translation which might be of use to other nodejs developers:
Something to be aware of is that rvm apparently also overides the system cd command to automatically set ruby on directory change which might not be desirable.
I don't claim that the list of correct, it's just what I've come up with so far. Email me with any corrections.
I was able to upgrade ruby versions. These are the commands I had to run. I will spare you the error messages and detours.
{% highlight bash %}
~ $ ruby -v
ruby 2.3.0p0 (2015-12-25 revision 53290) [x86_64-darwin14]
brew doctor
brew update
brew install rbenv
echo export PATH=$HOME/.rbenv/shims:$PATH >> $HOME/.bashrc
brew upgrade ruby-build
rbenv install --list
rbenv install 2.5.1
echo 2.5.1 > ~/.rbenv/version
rbenv rehash
rbenv versions
gem env
gem install bundler
~ $ ruby -v
ruby 2.5.1p57 (2018-03-29 revision 63029) [x86_64-darwin15]
bundle install
bundle show jekyll
bundle exec jekyll serve
{% endhighlight %}
These are essentially the commands I ran, roughly in that order but it got a bit confusing somewhere in the middle.
I decided not to run rbenv init, the only mandatory thing it does is add the shims folder to the PATH. So I just did that myself.
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Update - This is the blog post that constituted the original services description, it is no longer being updated and has been replaced by the services page.
The consultancy service is very straight forward, it covers any aspect of building cloud web applications and is delivered via Skype call. It is customizable to the clients needs but generally covers architecture, building and deployment as well as things like efficient setup of developer environments.
The infrastructure service deliverable is a running cloud based system ready for web application deployment. There are lot of tweaks necessary over and above the vanilla Ubuntu install that your cloud provider offers, such as machine access, cloud provider environment setup, firewall rules, logs, 3rd party applications installation and configuration, user accounts, aliases, SSL certificates, cron jobs to name a few. This services covers all these and does it at 3 complexity levels depending on the size of your installation.
The maintenance service is aimed at maintenance and support of a web application infrastructure. It should be used for upgrades, improvements and customizations to an existing infrastructure.
The development service covers the development of NodeJS based web applications and could cover any type of application. It also covers the development of software based automation and workflows. I recommend doing some consultancy services sessions first to determine the application specifics before starting a development services engagement.
The custom training service covers the creation and delivery of custom training on web development and automation/workflow design and implementation. These can be made according to customer needs, could involve a systems discovery and consulting phase, and delivered either onsite or remotely via video conferencing tools. Other training topics might be possible.
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