Grandfather, Father, Son Rotation Script

Posted on by Josh

Here’s a simple script I put together to rotate backup files in a given directory with decreasing resolution the further away we get from the current time.

#!/bin/bash

set -euo pipefail

DRYRUN=${DRYRUN:-1}
DIR=${DIR:-'/backups/mysql'}
HOURS=${HOURS:-48}
DAYS=${DAYS:-35}
MONTHS=${MONTHS:-24}

usage() {
	echo "usage: DRYRUN=0 DIR=/backups HOURS=48 DAYS=30 MONTHS=24 $0"
	exit 1
}

if [ $DRYRUN -eq 1 ]; then
	echo "DRYRUN: No changes will be made"
fi

if [ "$HOURS" -lt 0 ] || [ "$DAYS" -lt 1 ] || [ "$MONTHS" -lt 1 ]; then
	echo "ERROR: Cannot have negative rotation"
	usage
fi

## Bail and cleanup if we exit early
cleanup() {
	find $DIR -type f -execdir rename 's/.process$//g' '{}' \;
}
trap cleanup EXIT
trap cleanup SIGINT

## Flag all the files for processing
find $DIR -type f | grep -v '.process$' | xargs -I{} mv {}{,.process}

while [ $MONTHS -gt 0 ]; do
	MONTHS=$(($MONTHS-1))
	days=$(( ( $(date '+%s') - $(date -d "$MONTHS months ago" '+%s') ) / 86400 ))
	file=$(find $DIR -type f -mtime "+$days" | sort -n | tail -n1)
	if [ "$DRYRUN" -eq 0 ]; then
		rename 's/.process$//g' "$file"
	else
		echo "MONTH:	$MONTHS	$file" | sed 's/.process$//'
	fi
done

while [ $DAYS -gt 0 ]; do
	DAYS=$(($DAYS-1))
	file=$(find $DIR -type f -mtime "+$DAYS" | sort -n | tail -n1)
	if [ "$DRYRUN" -eq 0 ]; then
		rename 's/.process$//g' "$file"
	else
		echo "DAY:	$DAYS	$file" | sed 's/.process$//'
	fi
done

while [ $HOURS -gt 0 ]; do
	HOURS=$(($HOURS-1))
	minutes=$(($HOURS*60))
	file=$(find $DIR -type f -mmin "+$minutes" | sort -n | tail -n1)
	if [ "$DRYRUN" -eq 0 ]; then
		rename 's/.process$//g' "$file"
	else
		echo "HOUR: 	$HOURS	$file" | sed 's/.process$//'
	fi
done

## Delete all remaining files
[ "$DRYRUN" -eq 0 ] && rm "$DIR"/*.process 2> /dev/null

Radio Milwaukee AppleScript

Posted on by Josh

I’ve been listening to Radio Milwaukee a lot lately. They play it at a lot of my favorite coffee shops in Milwaukee that I haven’t been able to visit for a while.

I like to listen to music in the Music app (previously iTunes) because I have AirPlay speakers in my office and around the house. This script opens the Radio Milwaukee stream and hides the Music app.

tell application "Music"
	open location "https://wyms.streamguys1.com/live?platform=88nine"
	play
	set visible of every window to false
end tell

The Day I Met Joe Biden

Posted on by Josh

The Friday before the 2016 Presidential Election, I was at the same coffee shop that I had been going to almost every day for years. At one point I looked up from my laptop and noticed someone with an ear piece standing outside the window. After working for a while longer, I remembered that Vice President Biden was speaking in Madison that morning, campaigning for Hillary Clinton and Russ Feingold, who was running for his old Senate seat again.

A little while later, I noticed that Secret Service had actually stopped letting people in without Press credentials and there were many reporters inside and outside the cafe.

The next thing I remember is the motorcade coming around the corner and stopping right in front of Colectivo. I just found the moment in Slack where I was in the middle of a conversation when I said:

brb, joe biden is here
i think he’s literally walking into Colectivo
he is

First Russ Feingold came in. I had been sitting in the front of the cafe when all this started, so I was one of the first people to shake his hand when he walked in the door. (It probably didn’t hurt that I had a huge Russ Feindgold bumper sticker on the cover of my laptop 🙃)

Then Joe Biden came in and shook everyone’s hand. He noticed someone with a Green Bay Packers phone cover and told a story about how he got out of school early on Mondays if the Packers won. Then he walked into the middle of the restaurant and announced, “I’m Joe Biden and I work for Russ Feingold.”

I think about this day a lot when I encounter people that are less than enthusiastic about the idea of a President Biden. He wasn’t my first choice in the Democratic primary, but he is qualified to be President, he’s a good person, and he would make things better for most people instead of worse. In a lot of ways, he’s the opposite of our current President.