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Can you translate it back?

Mathieu PATUREL — Sat, 26 May 2018 00:50:17 +0000

I've got a little challenge for you.

ib jb eikybfi eite hvim

Can you translate this encrypted text back to its original form?

If you do, send me an email at math2001.contact@protonmail.com explaining how you found it, and I'll add you to the glorious list of people who found the solution 😄 (see below).

Rules

I guarantee you the original message:

contains only lower case ASCII letters (abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz)
has the same spaces as in the encrypted message. So you know that the first word will have 2 letters, the second one as well, the third one 7, etc...
can only translated to one string (the one I gave you)

They found it!

The glorious and amazing people who had a crack and found the secret message!

The list is over here.

Solution

Hey hey. Smart one, looking at the right place, 😄

I'll be posting the original message, as well as an explanation about how it worked on my blog next week, that is the Friday 1 June 2018.

Display a file from another branch

Mathieu PATUREL — Wed, 16 May 2018 07:07:41 +0000

Ever wanted to see a file from a different branch? Well, no need to stash && checkout, just use git show.

dev $ git show master:path/to/file

PS: this works with any reference (not sure if that's the right term, correct me if I'm wrong), like commit and tags:

master $ git log --oneline
d529def Some more new stuff
4598db3 Some new stuff
e8dd680 init
master $ git show e8dd680:path/to/file
<The content of the file at commit e8dd680>

Enjoy!

Combine your SVGs

Mathieu PATUREL — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 08:30:41 +0000

SVG images are awesome, I absolutely love it (and who doesn't). A great thing about them is that you can combine them very easily, and use integrate them into your web page in single line.

It makes your website faster since you only make one HTTP request instead of .

A quick read about how to do that over at math2001.github.io/post/combine-svgs

Which editors do you use?

Mathieu PATUREL — Sat, 07 Oct 2017 07:11:46 +0000

The question's in the title. Here's my answer: VIM and Sublime Text

Sublime text is better than vim except for the fact that it doesn't support fully (yet) VIM mappings (and plugins, but I could deal with this). I use the Six package, a python emulation of VIM (ST plugins are written in Python).

ST is absolutely beautiful, amazingly fast, supports proper project management (settings per project for example), a proper multi cursor (not a hack like vim-multiple-cursor), great syntax highlighting (engine and rules), and much more...

Despite all these advantages, I'm still using the actual VIM, sometimes giving another go at ST (like right now).

That's it! Your turn!

Share on dev.to?

Mathieu PATUREL — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:39:39 +0000

I'm currently building my blog (over at math2001.github.io if you're intersted), and I'm putting some link to share the current posts (twitter, etc).

And I was wondering if dev.to was an appropriate link to use... I'm quite new to this blazing fast website ( ðŸ˜ ), so, I was wondering: is dev.to only for sharing "new" content, or we can share existing stuff. I feel like the second option, but again, I'm new.

Basically, I'm asking if a link saying "Share on dev.to" would be appropriate.

What do you guys think?

List files in any branch in git

Mathieu PATUREL — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:57:54 +0000

List entire branch content

~/my/repo $ git ls-tree mybranch -r --name-only
.gitignore
LICENSE
README.md
cli.js
demo.gif
index.html
live-svg.svg
package.json
server.js
tests/cli.js

List only one folder's content

You don't need grep!

~/my/repo $ git ls-tree mybranch:test -r --name-only
tests/cli.js

More informations about git ls-tree.

Hope it'll save you some time! ðŸ˜œ

Programmatically get current git branch

Mathieu PATUREL — Sun, 24 Sep 2017 07:28:19 +0000

Nice and easy. Works with git 1.6.3 and higher.

$ git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
master