Raymond P. Burkholder - Things I Do - Software Development

Git Summaries

nospam@example.com (Raymond P. Burkholder) — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:59:21 +0000

The Git Commands I Run Before Reading Any Code - some interesting simple queries on a git repository to gain some understanding on development patterns

Most changed files in the last year:

git log --format=format: --name-only --since="1 year ago" | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20

List of contributors:

git shortlog -sn --no-merges

Example of looking for hot words in comment messages:

git log -i -E --grep="fix|bug|broken" --name-only --format='' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -20

Time line of commits:

git log --format='%ad' --date=format:'%Y-%m' | sort | uniq -c

Another example of comment keyword searches:

git log --oneline --since="1 year ago" | grep -iE 'revert|hotfix|emergency|rollback'

Hacker News - referenced

JUCE: Audio Framework

nospam@example.com (Raymond P. Burkholder) — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:06:58 +0000

Note to self: come back to this and redo some non-functional audio logic located in some code which needs to be uprooted and re-juiced.

JUCE - open source, cross-platform, software development framework provided as C++ source code, that can be used to create standalone software on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android, as well as VST, VST3, AU, AUv3, AAX and LV2 plug-ins.

Python Virtual Environment for Ansible

nospam@example.com (Raymond P. Burkholder) — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:27:47 +0000

Pip vs Pipenv: Which is better and which to learn first compares pipenv vs the python3-pip and virtualenv package combo.

After referring to that, I think I'll just stick with the standard pip/virtualenv combo for now.

To get started:

# install basic packages
apt-get install python3 python3-pip virtualenv  python3-venv git

# create a project directory - example ansible
python3 -m venv ansible

# activate the project
cd ansible
source bin/activate

# example installation of packages
pip install ansible
pip install argcomplete
activate-global-python-argcomplete
source ~/.bash_completion
ansible-config init --disabled > ansible.cfg

# to deactivate the project
deactivate

# upgrade
python3 -m pip install --upgrade ansible

At some point, integrate python3-ansible-runner, the github source and links to documentation.