Thomas W. Holt Jr. indygwyn

Sync Fork

This workflow uses the GitHub CLI to keep a forked repo in sync with the upstream repo. Add it to your repo as .github/workflows/sync-fork.yaml.

It runs daily to sync the default branch and can be triggered manually for any branch.

true and false vs. "truthy" and "falsey" (or "falsy") in Ruby, Python, and JavaScript

Many programming languages, including Ruby, have native boolean (true and false) data types. In Ruby they're called true and false. In Python, for example, they're written as True and False. But oftentimes we want to use a non-boolean value (integers, strings, arrays, etc.) in a boolean context (if statement, &&, ||, etc.).

This outlines how this works in Ruby, with some basic examples from Python and JavaScript, too. The idea is much more general than any of these specific languages, though. It's really a question of how the people designing a programming language wants booleans and conditionals to work.

If you want to use or share this material, please see the license file, below.

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You can inherit the environment variables from PID 1 by iterating over the list of null-terminated strings in /proc/1/environ, parsing the first characters up to the first = as the variable name, setting the remaining value as that variable, and exporting it.

The Code Snippet

This works with multiline environment variables, and environment variables with arbitrary values, like strings, including = or JSON blobs.

Paste this in your current terminal session to inherit the environment variables from PID 1:

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	[21Oct2024 22:33:56.863] [main/INFO] [cpw.mods.modlauncher.Launcher/MODLAUNCHER]: ModLauncher running: args [--username, indygwyn, --version, 1.21.1, --gameDir, /Users/twh/Library/Application Support/PrismLauncher/instances/All the Mods 10 - ATM10/minecraft, --assetsDir, /Users/twh/Library/Application Support/PrismLauncher/assets, --assetIndex, 17, --uuid, 6d2c563e1d2247f89d31ce48fc49a49b, --accessToken, ❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄, --userType, msa, --versionType, release, --fml.neoForgeVersion, 21.1.72, --fml.fmlVersion, 4.0.29, --fml.mcVersion, 1.21.1, --fml.neoFormVersion, 20240808.144430, --launchTarget, forgeclient, --width, 854, --height, 480]
	[21Oct2024 22:33:56.864] [main/INFO] [cpw.mods.modlauncher.Launcher/MODLAUNCHER]: JVM identified as Microsoft OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM 21.0.3+9-LTS
	[21Oct2024 22:33:56.865] [main/INFO] [cpw.mods.modlauncher.Launcher/MODLAUNCHER]: ModLauncher 11.0.4+main.d2e20e43 starting: java version 21.0.3 by Microsoft; OS Mac OS X arch aarch64 version 15.0.1
	[21Oct2024 22:33:57.144] [main/INFO] [

	---- Minecraft Crash Report ----
	// You should try our sister game, Minceraft!

	Time: 2024-10-21 22:36:20
	Description: Rendering Block Entity

	java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The class blusunrize.immersiveengineering.client.utils.TransformingVertexBuilder does not implement interface VertexBufferWriter, which is required for compatibility with Sodium (see: https://github.com/CaffeineMC/sodium-fabric/issues/1620)
	at TRANSFORMER/[email protected]+mc1.21.1/net.caffeinemc.mods.sodium.api.vertex.buffer.VertexBufferWriter.createUnsupportedVertexConsumerThrowable(VertexBufferWriter.java:46) ~[sodium-neoforge-0.6.0-beta.2+mc1.21.1.jar%23799!/:?] {re:mixin,re:classloading}
	at TRANSFORMER/[email protected]+mc1.21.1/net.caffeinemc.mods.sodium.api.vertex.buffer.VertexBufferWriter.of(VertexBufferWriter.java:22) ~[sodium-neoforge-0.6.0-beta.2+mc1.21.1.jar%23799!/:?] {re:mixin,re:classloading}
	at TRANSFORMER/[email protected]/net.minecraft.client.particle.SingleQuadParticle.renderRotatedQuad(SingleQuadParticle.jav

	#!/bin/sh

	man2pdf() {
	##
	## Created by Pico Mitchell (of Random Applications) on 11/16/22
	##
	## https://gist.github.com/PicoMitchell/619c12fd6a53ae6ec657514915d4edf9
	##
	## MIT License
	##

	#!/bin/sh

	# Copyright 2021 Jonathan Bowman. All documentation and code contained
	# in this file may be freely shared in compliance with the
	# Apache License, Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
	# and is provided "AS IS" without warranties or conditions of any kind.
	#
	# OUT="$(mktemp)"; wget -q -O - https://gist.github.com/bowmanjd/d72e2e89996087f71ffe3e9777dea5a2/raw > $OUT; . $OUT
	#
	# You may read a brief synopsis at

	[15:21:09] [main/INFO]: ModLauncher running: args [--username, indygwyn, --version, forge-43.1.25, --gameDir, /Users/twh/Twitch/Minecraft/Instances/All the Mods 8 - ATM8 - 1.19.2, --assetsDir, /Users/twh/Twitch/Minecraft/Install/assets, --assetIndex, 1.19, --uuid, 6d2c563e1d2247f89d31ce48fc49a49b, --accessToken, ❄❄❄❄❄❄❄❄, --clientId, QThEMjQwMjI1RjJCNEVCODhERUY1MjA1NEZERkQ4MkY=, --xuid, 2533274810344824, --userType, msa, --versionType, release, --width, 1024, --height, 768, --launchTarget, forgeclient, --fml.forgeVersion, 43.1.25, --fml.mcVersion, 1.19.2, --fml.forgeGroup, net.minecraftforge, --fml.mcpVersion, 20220805.130853]
	[15:21:09] [main/INFO]: ModLauncher 10.0.8+10.0.8+main.0ef7e830 starting: java version 17.0.3 by Microsoft; OS Mac OS X arch x86_64 version 12.6
	[15:21:10] [main/INFO]: SpongePowered MIXIN Subsystem Version=0.8.5 Source=union:/Users/twh/Twitch/Minecraft/Install/libraries/org/spongepowered/mixin/0.8.5/mixin-0.8.5.jar%2391!/ Service=ModLauncher Env=CLIENT