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How to save a fucked up git repo

Mistake: 

You have an existing repo that is 3 hours worth of changes different from the remote. They aren’t linked, but you want them to be linked, so you “git remote add origin [git repo url]” the thing. Then, you do the dumbest thing you could possibly think of: 

You pull. 

And then you get 100000000000000 merge conflicts and ALL YOUR FILES ARE FUCKED UP. 

How to save? Well, if you are like me, and somehow was smart enough to have a local git log on the existing repo with 3 hours worth of changes, then you will then “git reset HEAD@{1}” and then panic because you don’t know what “Unstaged changes after reset:” and all your files are the old versions that existed before the 3 hours worth of changes (sry I’m big dumbass and didn’t do more git commits...). 

Then you do some googling and realize you just gotta check out the files that need to be staged aka the files that were added/committed at the correct commit you just reset to. Then everything works again, and then to update the remote, you do: 

“git push origin master --force”

And yay.

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Quick interlude

I recently migrated my personal site to be hosted via github. Dreamhost name registration was so smooth. 

http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Redirect_Domain

^ great resource

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HTML/CSS tips

I always get stuck on the same things. 

1. How to get the stupid footer to stick and be at the bottom without any extra space

2. How to use float

3. How to mobile optimize

I'll write posts about #2 and #3 later, but what has worked for me is: 

"html,body {

 padding: 0;  margin: 0;  width: 100%; }

footer {  width: 100%;  bottom: 0;  position: fixed; }"

Why I think it worked: 

Inheritance with CSS is always a pain in the butt for me, but when you set the html and body to have 0 padding/0 margin, this is making sure that you have the most real estate you can get on a screen. Width is 100% to get the most width possible. 

The footer width also has to be 100% to stretch it all the way out, and the padding/margins are inherited. To make it stick, the position should be fixed, and not relative. Relative would mean that the location can shift by the positions of other elements. Fixed means that it stays in the same position all the time (the bottom of the screen, assuming your footer element is the last thing in your body). 

Just for context, I also had a content div around my content, and my footer tag was outside of the content tag.

I'll get back to the blog on floats and mobile optimization.

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Git and Namecheap

Working on someone's repo today. I very very quickly configured a domain name (using Namecheap) and github pages, and I was surprised because I've definitely spent agonizingly long to do that for prior projects. 

What made this one faster? 

1. Namecheap has a university offer where students with a .edu email can get a .me domain name for 1 yr/ free.

2. Github pages worked seamlessly with the repo. We already had an index.html file, so we just started a new branch and walaaaaaa....basically instantaneous username.github.io/reponame was set up. 

3. You need to create a CNAME file in your repo for whatever domain name you bought. 

4. On the Namecheap side, you only need to change the part that already has the domain name in it (the CNAME part) to be your username.github.io., with the period at the end. 

Super easy. Super magical. 

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Building this tweepy app

Problem:

I went to a talk where a political figure spoke at my school. I followed her on Twitter, and surprisingly, she followed back. Why is this a problem for me?

My twitter feed is a mess. I'm being dramatic, but for the past couple of years, my twitter has been a sinkhole of desperate AP Biology work rants, miserable college application woes, lonely subtweets...in other words, very pathetic. I kept it on private purely because I was embarrassed about my crappy thoughts. How could I let an important role model see* that uncomposed side of me, especially when in this day and age, your social profile is a reflection of you?

I really wanted her* to follow me back, and my proposed solutions were as follow:

Solution

Make a work account and follow her again. Setbacks: She* doesn't follow me again :(

Manually delete tweets that are innappropriate. Setbacks: Carpal tunnel :(

Create an app that makes deleting tweets easy. Setbacks: I go crazy. Example: Search for the work "fuck," and begin mass annihilation.

In the name of ... I chose the latter after manually deleting 20 tweets ;)

I'm going to document my journey building this app. I've already got a small Flask app going so far that generates the last 200 tweets from my account, but I have a lot to work on. Tasks range from finishing my objective to optimizing the app (slow as FUCK right now).

What I worked on today:

Organizing the tweet information into button items. A questionable decision I made here was to make each tweet a separate form using Jinja2's templating. In the moment, I was thinking that it might be easier for people to just click individual ones to delete them, but I need to think about overall convenience... This is about mass tweeting, but does having a delete button readily accessible already make it more useful?

Moved the keys into a conf file, gitignored it. I learned that you can link it as such: ... if __name__ == "__main__": config={} execfile("twitter.conf", config) ... so that the API keys can live in a separate file that I don't need to push to git. How exciting. The structure of the conf file is varname= varvalue where these variables become values in the config dictionary. To retrieve the varvalue, you do config[varname]. I also learned how to use gitignore!

Last week I set up tweepy, which was a lot easier than expected. The documentation for it is really straightforward. *props to them*

Did some bootstrap CSSing because I got really distracted.

* I'm being facetious. Clearly this important person wouldn't groom her own social media presence herself... Regardless, I'm just tryna be cool, ok.