About

This is Dakota's tilde.club page. It is meant to be a fun exploration of the web as it could be with a little more semantic markup, separation of concerns and ASCII art of course. Look ma, no <div />s! If you are interested in how it's done you can check out the repo on github. Thanks to TAAG for all the text art fonts and inspiration. Many thanks to ~ben and ~deepend for keeping the lights on. Thanks to Tom 7 for being generally awesome and inspirational. Finally, thanks to Jankenpopp and crew for Windows 93, where I originally discovered tilde.club (and so much more) in the first place.

About Dakota

I'm just a guy with a much greater than average like of mathematics. I grew up in Texas, finished my PhD in mathematics at the CUNY Graduate Center, married my incredible wife Abigail Myers (Two time Jeopardy! Champion, NYC Marathon finisher, NaNoWriMo author, National Board Certified teacher, the list goes on.) and welcomed our beautiful daughter Junia to the world. I now work as a software engineer, but web technologies and the original hopeful promise of the internet have been dear to my heart for most of my life which might explain why I would make a silly page like this in my spare time. After all, a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest kin.

I like programming concepts and the languages that implement them, and I think that is neatly summed up in this haiku:

   Python and SQL:
     Functional, declarative
       The fine tools of thought.
   

Links

I have other websites on the internet that serve different purposes, and here are some links to them:

• TenSen.net
• dakotablair.com
• dakotablair on GitHub
• exalted_shmo on Twitter

Preferences

• Force mode Dark Light h4x0r
• Intensified ASCII aesthetics.

Fun bash one liners

Remove all tab characters

tr -d '\t'

Find lines containing literal tabs

awk '/\t/'

grep -P

Join files using a tab separator

join -t $'\t' file1 file2

A simple awk for isolating columns

awk '{print $2}'

Simple system benchmarks

yes | sed '=' | sed '/y/d'

time seq -n 1e6

Print a few random numbers

od -d < /dev/random | awk '{ print $2 }' | head

What shell am I using?

lsof -p $$

See which processes are listening to a $PORT

netstat -pntl | grep $PORT # linux

lsof -nP -iTCP:$PORT | grep LISTEN # os x

Useful flags for rsync

rsync -h --progress --stats --verbose

Recover files from a slightly corrupted tar archive

cpio -ivd -H tar < file.tar