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Applescript to periodically raise unsent Outlook replies to the foreground
I’ve had a particular problem starting replies in Outlook for Mac and then losing track of them or forgetting about them. This script is a fairly naive attempt at having such replies raised to the foreground. It doesn’t distinguish between a reply you’re reading and one you’re writing. It also won’t notice email that you’re…
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Dollar Shave Club (Executive) Review as a Gillette Mach 3 User
I decided to try the Dollar Shave Club Executive (6 blade) model for a month. The subscription for 4 blades per month is $9. The initial shipment came with their own shave butter, which I tried for my first shave. The shave butter broke down too quickly for my skin and facial hair thickness, and…
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Using a vimscript to run through a list of substitutions with dictionary pairs
I wanted to modify a test suite to call a method using ruby 2’s keyword arguments. There were several calls to the same initialization function that followed a pattern that made it a good candidate for a series of `%s` calls using key-value pairs in a dictionary. Interesting how vimscript uses a leading slash as…