In Apple's Terminal.app, you can option-click to move the cursor with the mouse.

tf-idf

Awk one-liners

advanced (unicode) Regular Expressions in python

a case for learning things we dont yet need to know

Just a short script related to that update all easy_install packages script I linked to the other day. I wanted a nice list of what the heck I’ve actually installed over the years. The following is a quick and dirty way to do this.

charm with one woman for the rest of your life. Any man can find a twerp here and there who will go along with cheating, and it doesn't take all that much manhood. It does take quite a man to remain attractive and to be loved by a woman who has heard him snore, seen him un

301 redirect

Funny chart

save the environment

hardcore site search

Very cool heat map showing birth patterns.

Check out the gaps around major holidays

Awesome python html/xml parser

Here is a script for BBEdit to insert a line break after the most recent comma or period.

Documentation manager for mac

Help with dragging and dropping for mac

This is a useful reference for hg users forced to contend with git. Also, observe how terse the hg column is:

A BBEdit package to make working with Git easier

various scripts and support files for noodling on the command line, especially programming with bbedit, git/gitx

jekyll vs hyde

RT @Alex_Ogle: Pretty epic typo for Benedict Cumberbatch in Washington Post, third paragraph (via @sstummeafp)

calculating bin width for histograms.

So here is my own personal gentle introduction to using pdb. It assumes that you are not using any IDE -- that you're coding Python with a text editor and running your Python programs from the command line.

Turn a BeautifulSoup form in to a dict of fields and default values - useful for screen scraping forms and then resubmitting them

This tutorial is short.
To figure out bugs in your code, you might put in print statements/print() calls to display the value of variables.
Don’t do this. Use the Python logging module.
The logging is better than printing because:

It’s easy to put a timestamp in each message, which is very handy.
You can have different levels of urgency for messages, and filter how less urgent messages.
When you want to later find/remove log messages, you won’t get them confused for real print() calls.
If you just print to a log file, it’s easy to leave the log function calls in and just ignore them when you don’t need them. (You don’t have to constantly pull out print() calls.)
Using print is for coders with too much time on their hands. Use logging instead. Also, learn to use the Python debugger to debug bugs and Pylint to prevent bugs and make your code readable.

various scripts

textmate url

organize dotfiles

RT @siracusa: I want this now: (via @danielpunkass)