From 22c4f271e8d3f9d9e8b377838d885e4f65c7e356 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bryan Newbold <bnewbold@archive.org>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:57:44 -0700
Subject: small software tweaks

---
 software/bash.page     |  2 ++
 software/chromium.page | 13 +++++++++++++
 software/python.page   | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 software/rust.page     |  1 +
 4 files changed, 52 insertions(+)

(limited to 'software')

diff --git a/software/bash.page b/software/bash.page
index 5c81d3f..0d5325b 100644
--- a/software/bash.page
+++ b/software/bash.page
@@ -42,3 +42,5 @@ life difficult. Sometimes `|| true` is enough to get around this.
 Google has a style guide: https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml
 
 Shellcheck is a lint tool: https://www.shellcheck.net/
+
+http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/
diff --git a/software/chromium.page b/software/chromium.page
index 2212a20..9a88295 100644
--- a/software/chromium.page
+++ b/software/chromium.page
@@ -56,7 +56,20 @@ back so often and reaching for backspace is a pain::
 
 Flash Block
 --------------
+*Note: pretty sure this isn't necessary circa 2018)*
+
 I still use `flash block <http://www.chromeextensions.org/appearance-functioning/flashblock/>`_ to disable flash by default; an indicator pops up and I can 
 enable flash for an entire page which is nice for sites that have hidden flash
 (like hulu).
 
+Flags
+-------
+
+- `#show-saved-copy`: enable primary
+- `#pause-background-tabs`: enabled
+- `#expensive-background-timer-throttling: enabled
+
+Opt-Outs
+----------
+
+- https://mouseflow.com/opt-out/
diff --git a/software/python.page b/software/python.page
index deada7a..0fd2531 100644
--- a/software/python.page
+++ b/software/python.page
@@ -102,15 +102,21 @@ number (as an int).
 RunSnakeRun
 -------------
 
+Runsnake seems to be unmaintained... `snakeviz` is the new thing?
+
 Example session::
 
     $ python -m cProfile -o ./dump.profile myscript.py --script-option blah
     $ # run to completion or Ctrl-C, then
     $ runsnakerun ./dump.profile
+    # or
+    $ snakeviz ./dump.profile
 
 nosetests
 -------------
 
+NOTE: by default I now use pytest instead of nose
+
 To do minimal tests without wrapping everything in a class, import assert
 functions from nose.tools, eg::
 
@@ -169,3 +175,33 @@ To make Python 3.4 the default for `python` system-wide, do something like:
 For an individual user you can also just create a `python` alias. See also:
 
 http://linuxconfig.org/how-to-change-from-default-to-alternative-python-version-on-debian-linux
+
+
+Nice Packages
+--------------
+
+subprocess/pexpect: https://github.com/kennethreitz/delegator.py
+
+time/datetime: https://github.com/crsmithdev/arrow
+
+tsv: https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib
+
+simple HTML scraping: https://github.com/michaelhelmick/lassie
+
+sqlite3dbm is a library to back a python dict with sqlite3 on disk
+
+
+pytest
+-----------
+
+pytest sort of "just works" if you put test files under `./tests/`. If you want
+crude file imports, skipping directories, and including `test_*` functions from
+any python file (not just those with `test_*.py`, install `pytest-pythonpath`
+and create a `pytest.ini` like:
+
+    [pytest]
+    python_paths = .
+    python_files = *.py
+    norecursedirs = .svn _build tmp*
+
+Need to mock? <https://blog.fugue.co/2016-02-11-python-mocking-101.html>
diff --git a/software/rust.page b/software/rust.page
index af5ea3a..df99de4 100644
--- a/software/rust.page
+++ b/software/rust.page
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Rust
 
 - [http://xion.io/post/code/rust-iter-patterns.html]()
 - [https://deterministic.space/rust-cli-tips.html]()
+- [https://manishearth.github.io/blog/2018/01/10/whats-tokio-and-async-io-all-about/]()
 
 Optimization: use `RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native"` to take advantage of CPU
 special features.
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