How to extract suffixes from filenames with Python Defining a guess_extensions(filename) utility function that extracts extensions from a filename Recently I was dealing with filenames of the following form: 3a1d3614.2020-09-27.json.gz. That is, the filenames consisted of four parts: an alphanumeric ID, a date, and two extensions separated by dots. Python offers at least two built-in […]
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Make sure you are on the affected branch: git checkout wrong-branch Soft-reset the HEAD to the previous commit. In the words of git status, this will leave all your changed files as “changes to be committed”: git reset –soft HEAD^ Stash away the uncommited changes resulting from the previous step: git stash Apply the stashed […]
If, for whatever reason, you’d like to disable the stylesheet that comes with Yoast’s sitemap, add the following piece of code to your theme’s functions.php: In case you are wondering, this is made possible by how Yoast implements the get_output(…) function in class-sitemaps-renderer.php: As you can see, the function calls the wpseo_stylesheet_url filter in line […]
Note: What follows is a linguistic essay I wrote during my time as a student pursuing a master’s degree in computational linguistics. I stumbled over it a few days ago while going through some old data. Given the general scarcity of information about the topic of iconicity, I’ve decided to publish it here. Despite its […]
Recently, I took on the task of internationalizing a Django app. The app included the following two simple models for tagging user Profiles with a set of pre-defined Tags: “Wait a minute…”, I thought to myself while scrolling through the models.py module for the first time. “How am I supposed to add a translation for […]