Thoughts on software and tech

NOTE: the steps below assumes you have a Bash shell. If you are using a Unix machine (Mac or Linux) and are not sure what type oh shell you have, it’s probably Bash.

Recently I needed to repeat a series of long~ish commands in the command line but I never quite memorized them so I ended up resourcing to arrow-up-arrow-up-arrow-up </ad nauseum> until I found the command I was looking for.

I wrote a very simple right-to-the-point Docker introduction post if you’re new to Docker. If you want to see your code changes applied right away to a running Docker container, you need to make sure to run the container using the share volumes tag: -v (or --volume).

From Python’s official documentation: “A profile is a set of statistics that describes how often and for how long various parts of the program executed.”

Problem: create a map of the letters and indices in a string. My first approach was to loop over the string using range(len(s)), and checking if the letter exists in the map before adding it: