njt

Dalrymple is an excellent historian and author. I also highly recommend his first book, "City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Djinns).

> I'm lacking motivation to start or finish something I'll stick it on and get going.

This. I find that if I am not sure where to start, or not in the mood, using the technique helps me get started and keep focused. If I know what I'm going to be working and what do next, I can just jump into it.

Also check out the book "Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project" by Karl Fogel.

He just finished up the 2nd edition and made it freely available online: http://producingoss.com/

I'm not sure if you use tmux, but the way I do it is to open a new pane below the original, edit what I need to, and then close that pane when I'm done. The original screen remains untouched.

I tried this service right now and unfortunately, large chunks of their report require you to upgrade to a paid version to read it.

mail-tester is free: https://www.mail-tester.com/

(I'm not affiliated with either of these tools apart from using them.)

Also check out combine. It allows you to combine lines from two files using boolean operations:

  combine file1 [OPERATION] file2

Where [OPERATION] is one of [and, not, or, xor]. It allows you to quickly pull out interesting data from your files (the input files don't need to be sorted).

Also check out Vit: http://tasktools.org/projects/vit.html

It's a curses based console interface for taskwarrior.

HackerDB was mentioned in the Q&A session after one of the config management talks at the Usenix LISA conference last week.

I'm glad there are tools like this being actively developed.

I think perhaps the reason they keep being redeveloped is that the current crop of open source CMDBs doesn't meet needs, so I gladly welcome projects like this.