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linux one liner to extract email addresses from a django log file
Say something bad happened and your application sent emails that it shouldn’t have (ahem who? not me…) and you want to collect the emails to apologise. So you just copied the output of a log file in a text file (wrong.txt) like the following: sending message ‘Confirm email address for example.com’ to email1@test1.com sending message [...]
Read more →One-liner to list Ubuntu packages you installed recently
Quick one liner to list the ubuntu packages you recently installed on a machine. I needed this to copy the configuration of one of my production boxes onto a dev environment: sudo cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep \ installed | awk {‘print $5′} | xargs mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 … apache2
Read more →Tools for rapid prototyping: a webapp in 1 week
First things first. My new webapp tuttivisti is live! This post is about how it came to be. In just one week. One person team. Crazy working hours. So I was there immediately after receiving the news that YC did not select my team for this round. I thought I would feel depressed. I thought [...]
Read more →recovered all my blog posts since 2000
Ah that’s just great. Through a tense but harmless procedure I managed to recover access to my entire blogging history since the beginning. In the records it appears that my first ever blog post is dated May 8th 2000. A long time ago! I’ll go even further and embarrass myself quoting it in full: Hello [...]
Read more →running for ycombinator 2009 and having a blast
It’s been a crazy ride these past few weeks. My partner in crime – nocivus – and I have been working very hard on our submission for the 2009 Winter round of Y Combinator. It has been a lot of fun. Creative energy is like a drug. When you’re under its effect you can’t stop [...]
Read more →Using gmail for outbound smtp on Mac OS X Leopard
I had problems setting up postfix to run properly on my macbook pro. Then I found this very clear, step by step how to. And now everything works like a charm. The only drawback is that I can now basically only send email from my gmail account. Well that will do it for now.
Read more →one line search and replace in a folder [OSX]
Beautiful tip to search and replace all occurrences of a string in a given folder. I had to change it slightly to make it work under OSX so here it is for future reference: find . -type f -exec sed -i -e ‘s/Old/New/g’ {} \;
Read more →recent developments
So “what have you been up to?” you ask. I am back in Amsterdam since the beginning of September. I didn’t blog publicly much so far, but It’s time to resume. I feel my path as entrepreneur has started with the right feet (which is a free translation of an Italian saying that means things [...]
Read more →futility moment, my new wallpaper
Hang on because this blog post is very dense with content. Last summer I bought a cool t-shirt similar to this one while in US. For some reason I was freely browsing the web tonight and that logo came back to me. I was kind of bored of the glorious wallpaper that served me well [...]
Read more →Arrived to my summer head quarters
Arrived this morning at my summer head quarters. For the next 3 weeks coding sessions will be enhanced with sunbathing therapy and Marche’s food. Wonder where is this? here.
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