52nd Week of 2022

Life Management⚑

Life review⚑

• New: How to review your life.

  Sometimes is good to stop, get into your cave and do an introspection on how is your life going.

  I like to do this exercise the last week of the year. Although I'd like to do it at least twice a year.

  This article is the checklist I follow to do my life review, it may seem a lot to you or maybe very simple. You can take it as a base or maybe to get some ideas and then create your own that fits your needs.

  The process then has many phases:

  • Housekeeping
  • Analysis
  • Planning

Coding⚑

Languages⚑

Pytest⚑

• Correction: Remove warning that pytest-random-order can't be used with pytest-xdist.

  The issue was fixed

Git⚑

• New: Revert a commit.

  git revert commit_id
  

• New: Get interesting stats of the repo.

  Number of commits of the last year per user:

  git shortlog -sne --since="31 Dec 2020" --before="31 Dec 2021"
  

  You can also use git-fame to extract a more detailed report:

  $: git-fame --since 1.year --cost hour --loc ins -w -M -C
  
  | Author          |   hrs |   loc |   coms |   fils |  distribution   |
  |:----------------|------:|------:|-------:|-------:|:----------------|
  | Lyz             |    10 | 28933 |    112 |    238 | 64.1/33.3/75.8  |
  | GitHub Action   |     2 | 16194 |    220 |     73 | 35.9/65.5/23.2  |
  | Alexander Gil   |     2 |     9 |      1 |      1 | 0.0/ 0.3/ 0.3   |
  | n0rt3y5ur       |     2 |     1 |      1 |      1 | 0.0/ 0.3/ 0.3   |
  | Guilherme Danno |     2 |     1 |      1 |      1 | 0.0/ 0.3/ 0.3   |
  | lyz-code        |     2 |     0 |      1 |      0 | 0.0/ 0.3/ 0.0   |
  

  You can use pipx install git-fame to install it.

Operating Systems⚑

Linux⚑

Linux Snippets⚑

• New: Download TS streams.

  Some sites give stream content with small .ts files that you can't download directly. Instead open the developer tools, reload the page and search for a request with extension .m3u8, that gives you the playlist of all the chunks of .ts files. Once you have that url you can use yt-dlp to download it.

qBittorrent⚑

• New: Introduce qBittorrent.

  qBittorrent is my chosen client for Bittorrent.

  Some interesting sections added:

  • Migration from other client
  • Python interaction
  • Monitorization
  • Automatic operation

Torrents⚑

• New: Compare the different torrent clients.

  BitTorrent is a communication protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P), which enables users to distribute data and electronic files over the Internet in a decentralized manner.

  Each of us seeks something different for a torrent client, thus there is a wide set of software, you just need to find the one that's best for you. In my case I'm searching for a client that:

  • Scales well for many torrents

  • Is robust

  • Is maintained

  • Is popular

  • Is supported by the private trackers: Some torrent clients are banned by the tracker because they don't report correctly to the tracker when canceling/finishing a torrent session. If you use them then a few MB may not be counted towards the stats near the end, and torrents may still be listed in your profile for some time after you have closed the client. Each tracker has their list of allowed clients. Make sure to check them.

  Also, clients in alpha or beta versions should be avoided.

  • Can be easily monitored

  • Has a Python library or an API to interact with

  • Has clear and enough logs

  • Has RSS support

  • Has a pleasant UI

  • Supports categories

  • Can unpack content once it's downloaded

  • No ads

  • Easy to use behind a VPN with IP leakage protection.

  • Easy to deploy

  I don't need other features such as:

  • Preview content
  • Search in the torrent client

  The winner has been qBittorrent

Arts⚑

Video Gaming⚑

Age of Empires⚑

• New: Introduce the Age of Empires videogame.

  • How to do the basic opening: What to do when to pass to the feudal age in 8 minutes 30 seconds
  • How to micromanage different processes such as sheep, deer, boar hunting, house building, lumberjacking

Other⚑

• New: Introduce the Alder tree.

  

  Alders are trees comprising the genus Alnus in the birch family Betulaceae (like the birch). The genus parts are "al" which means "close by" and "lan" which means "side of the river", so they are trees that grow close to rivers or creeks.

• Correction: Give more details of the beech tree.

  The leaves of beech trees are elliptic, a little pointy at the end, flat, and with a short petiole. They are big and wide leaves ranging from 4-9 cm long. Very abundant, they have a light green colour with a darker tone and glossy on the upper side.

  The fruit is a small, sharply three-angled nut 10-15 mm long, borne singly or in pairs in soft-spined husks 1.5-2.5 cm long, known as cupules. The husk can have a variety of spine- to scale-like appendages, the character of which is, in addition to leaf shape, one of the primary ways beeches are differentiated. The nuts are edible, though bitter (though not nearly as bitter as acorns) with a high tannin content, and are called beechnuts or beechmast.

  They are big trees easily going between 30 and 45 meters. It looks very different if its isolated or being part of a forest. The first one the branches grow from the middle of the trunk and are horizontal, in the second, the branches go up and start over the half of the trunk. The principal root is very powerful, with very strong secondary roots, developing lateral superficial roots.

  

  The trunk is right with a grayish-cinder bark, smooth until it's old, usually covered by moss an lichen. Smaller branches are zigzagging with reddish-brown pointy buds.

  The canopy is big, dense, rounded and semi spheric, giving a lot of shadow.

  It grows slow in the first years, being the most active between the tenth and twelve year, reaching it's maximum height when it's twenty five, although it lives around three hundred years.

• Correction: Give more details of the birch tree.

  The simple leaves are rhomboidal, between 3 and 6 cm, singly or doubly serrate except at the base, feather-veined, petiolate and stipulate. Although they are alternate, many leaves spawn from each side of the branch, making some think that they are not alternate. They often appear in pairs, but these pairs are really borne on spur-like, two-leaved, lateral branchlets.

  The canopy is rounded and irregular giving few shadow.

  The fruit is a small samara, although the wings may be obscure in some species. They differ from the alders in that the female catkins are not woody and disintegrate at maturity, falling apart to release the seeds, unlike the woody, cone-like female alder catkins.

  The bark of all birches is characteristically smooth and white, although in older ones the lower part is usually cracked and takes blackish brown colours. It's marked with long, horizontal lenticels, and often separates into thin, papery plates, especially upon the paper birch.

• New: How to tell apart the different trees.

  Alder vs Beech:

  Property	Beech	Alder
  Leaf border	flat	sparsely toothed
  Leaf form	elliptic	rounded
  Same colour both sides	no (darker and glossy up)	yes
  Sticky leafs	no	yes
  Size	30-45m	10-12m (in Europe)
  Knots on the roots with fungi	no	yes
  Where they grow	everywhere	close to rivers or creeks

  Alder vs Birch:

  Property	Birch	Alder
  Leaf border	heavy toothed	sparsely toothed
  Leaf form	rhomboidal	rounded
  Sticky leafs	no	yes
  Where they grow	very close to each other	close to rivers or creeks

  Beech vs Birch:

  Property	Beech	Birch
  Leaf border	flat	heavy toothed
  Leaf form	elliptic	rhomboidal
  Size	30-45m	10-15m (in Europe)
  Same colour both sides	no (darker and glossy up)	yes
  Where they grow	everywhere	very close to each other