You're probably very familiar with the tools you use daily and operate them from muscle memory. But there are also these setup or maintenance tasks you only do every X months and their practical details are a bit hazy.

This is a random, work-in-progress collection of cheat sheets for these commands or workflows I use too infrequently to remember.

Jupyter/JupyterLab

  • List installed Jupyter/JupyterLab kernels (run from env that has jupyter installed):

     jupyter kernelspec list
    
  • Add a new kernel for a custom virtual/conda env:

    • Enter the virtual/env (e.g. . bin/venv/activate or conda activate $envname)
    • Install ipykernel package: e.g. pip install ipykernel
    • Create kernel spec for jupyter/jupyterlab:
      python -m ipykernel install --user --name $kernelname
      

    Optionally add --display-name "Pretty Name" to give it a prettier name in the Jupyter(Lab) UI - Check that kernel is now listed at jupyter kernelspec list (run this from env where you run Jupyter(Lab))

asdf (for managing Python versions)

  • List installed python versions asdf list python
  • List all available Python versions asdf list all python
  • Install new version asdf install python 3.11.2
  • Select certain version for current shell: asdf shell python 3.11.1

Conda/Anaconda

  • Updating
    • update conda (base environment): conda update conda
    • Update all packages in an environment: conda update --all
  • Remove unused packages and caches (can save up multiple GB).

     conda clean --all
    

    (optionally add --dry-run)

  • Remove environment conda env remove -n $ENVNAME

Homebrew

  • List installed formulas
  • Including dependencies: brew list
  • Only the "leave" formulas: brew leaves
  • How do I update my local packages?

     # First update the formulae and Homebrew itself:
     brew update
     # You can now find out what is outdated with:
     brew outdated
     # Upgrade everything with:
     brew upgrade
     # Or upgrade a specific formula with:
     brew upgrade <formula>
    
  • By default, Homebrew does not uninstall old versions of a formula. To clean up the accumulation of old, unused versions:

     brew cleanup <formula>
     # or clean up everything at once (add `-n` for dry run):
     brew cleanup
    
  • Remove packages that were once installed as dependency of another, but not necessary anymore:

     brew autoremove
    
  • General checkup

     brew doctor
    

Docker

  • First, it's best to clean up all stopped containers (assuming these are all just disposable leftovers).

    # Check first for stopped containers
    docker ps -a
    # Prune stopped containers
    docker container prune
    
  • Clean up dangling images

    # List images we currently have
    docker image ls
    
    # Prune dangling images (untagged and not being used by a container)
    docker image prune
    
  • A bit more aggressive: prune all images (also tagged ones) that were created long enough ago

    docker image prune -a --filter "until=2022-01-01"
    
  • Even more aggressive, suggested on Adam Johnson's blog:

    docker system prune --all --force --filter until=24h
    docker volume prune --force
    

Vim

(yes, I use vim too infrequently to remember these, sue me)

  • Change a word (e.g. interactive git rebase): :cw
  • show line numbers :set number