TL; DR; Use docker for running databases on your local machine. See examples below: #!/bin/bash # Redis docker run -d \ --name dev-redis\ -v ${HOME}/redis-data/:/data \ -p 6379:6379 \ redis # Postgres docker run -d \ --name dev-postgres \ -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres\ -v ${HOME}/postgres-data/:/var/lib/postgresql/data \ -p 5432:5432 \ postgres # MySQL docker run -d…

(Note this works for shared folders as well!) TL;DR; Use the gist located here, to generate an OAuth 2.0 access token for making http requests to the Google Drive API, then upload your files using cURL: #!/bin/bash ### Note -- $folder_id, $access_token, and $filename should be set curl 'https://www.googleapis.com/upload/drive/v3/files?uploadType=multipart' \…

2021/06/05 — Edit: I wrote this article last year, and since have learned more about how python works internally. The solution below indeed works, but is rather inefficient. The getattr, setattr, hasattr, functions are great and have a time and place to be used, but they require a lookup of…

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