Reducing zsh startup time by 400%

Posted on Thu 08 October 2020 in Programming • Tagged with shell, performance

As part of the nature of my work, I have to interact with a lot of systems and tools. My .zshrc file has slowly grown in order to support this multi-project workflow. So, too, has the startup time for my shell.

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Supercharge your jupyter startup with bash and tmux

Posted on Fri 08 June 2018 in programming • Tagged with python, shell

If you're like me, you dislike doing repetitive tasks when a script could have just as easily done the work for you. For example, starting a jupyter server on my local machine requires me to do the following:

  1. open a terminal
  2. source the virtual environment I use for jupyter work …

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