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Quick useful command lines

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Mac and Win­dows CLI tricks

Make Apple Mail.app faster

sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum .exit
(sources com­ments: [#1] and [#2]) It DOES work. For ins­tance, check how many times Mail.app boun­ced on the Dock before ope­ning before and after you did this ope­ra­tion. Might prove wor­thy of use for Yojimbo, too.

Shrink (a bit) winsxs

dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded
(source) Removes SP1 unins­tall files.

Quick notes with subadresses and filters

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Gmail per­mits sub­adresses (a.k.a. « plus adresses » — RFC 5233).

By com­bi­ning this and an ade­quate fil­ter, I found any easy way to send myself not without having them lying around.

Here’s the way:
  1. Create a label « Notes ». Give it beige color (like Post-it) with the color 243,231,179
  2. Create a fil­ter:
    1. « to:(xxxxx+notes@gmail.com) » xxxxx is your gmail address
    2. apply label « Notes »
At first, you’ll have to type xxxxx+notes. If you are like me, you will soon only have to type notes and Gmail will unders­tand.

Great time (and memory) saver!

Using English

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My English is good enough that I can high­light it on my résumé. But I am not a native and it shows, espe­cially when tal­king. Even when wri­ting, it is not that idio­syn­cra­tic; idio­tisms, phra­sial verbs and plain voca­bu­lary are (somew­hat) frequent shortcomings.

I try to use inter­na­tio­nal English, because I find id “clas­sier”. Colour, grey.

Tricks for non-native:

  • For trans­la­ting a tech­ni­cal term, go to Wiki­pe­dia in your lan­guage, expect to have an entry for the term, then look on the left column for the English inter­wiki link (pro­vi­ded it exists).
  • For trans­la­ting a phrase, go to Wordreference.com. It is a gold mine.