SALT messages are encoded with a library called msgpack, the Python implementation of MessagePack. How can we read them?

Today I learned about why directories in a project might have names ending in ‘dot d’, such as minion.d/.

Python string interpolation is available via few of interfaces, as Chris at Hashrocket taught me.

I needed to replace an “A19” light bulb. What does “A19” mean?

In Vim Normal mode, * searches forward for the next occurrence of word. But what goes back?

If I’ve defined a function in the Python REPL, I can read its definition with inspect.getsource.

In the Python REPL, the help function provides a help message about its argument.

Jira recently launched ‘Standup Mode’ feature, and love it!

I have a cron job that opens a program every day at a certain time. How can I also close it with a cron job?

My friend Josh recently wrote about a common mistake using pbcopy, Apple’s pasteboard utility.