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Revision as of 06:30, 2 August 2018

Totally random dump of facts.

To enforce a particular directory as the root directory for Pytest, just drop an empty pytest.ini file into the directory that you want to be the root directory.
To ensure that a GoCD pipeline can only run based on timer and never on a material, mark the first stage of that pipeline as manual. Or mark it as manual in the template itself.
Idempotency is an essential feature of automation software like Ansible and FreedomBox. I wonder if there's a way to write a test suite that checks each action in the system for idempotency.
Download a youtube playlist using
```
$ youtube-dl -t <url>
```
mpv, mplayer, SMplayer + smtube and FreeTube are some good desktop YouTube players
Android activities are destroyed and recreated on screen orientation change. To avoid this, set
```
android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"
```
under the Activity tag inside the AndroidManifest.xml. This only works if the minimum target version is API 13 or more.

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 * Idempotency is an essential feature of automation software like Ansible and FreedomBox. I wonder if there's a way to write a test suite that checks each action in the system for idempotency.
 * Download a youtube playlist using <pre>$ youtube-dl -t <url></pre>
-* mpv, mplayer and SMplayer + smtube are some good desktop YouTube players
+* mpv, mplayer, SMplayer + smtube and FreeTube are some good desktop YouTube players
+* Android activities are destroyed and recreated on screen orientation change. To avoid this, set <pre>android:configChanges="orientation|screenSize"</pre> under the Activity tag inside the AndroidManifest.xml. This only works if the minimum target version is API 13 or more.