Programming for fun and profit

A blog about software engineering, programming languages and technical tinkering

Mon 29 April 2019

Git local

Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week   

Nowadays, Git is almost ubiquitous in software development. Most developers also know that Git is a decentralized version control system, meaning that every copy of the repository carries the full revision history, and there is no "central" repository. A consequence of the decentralized aspect of Git is that you can …

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Tue 09 April 2019

Reverse search in bash

Posted by Simon Larsén in Tip of the Week   

Have you ever found yourself furiously tapping the UP-arrow (or ctrl+p) to find a command that's probably waaaay up there? Would you be surprised if I told you there's a better way? When you want to re-use a command you've written previously, and you know it's not the previous …

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Sat 06 April 2019

Migrating my blog

Posted by Simon Larsén in Blog   

Edit: The migration is complete! The Flask-based site has been retired and this Pelican-based site is fully fleshed out with the old content :)

I'm currently in the midst of migrating my old blog over here. Until I'm done, both sites will be a bit half-baked, sorry about that!

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