Mon 06 May 2019
For this Tip of the Week, I'd like to present something that took me a while
to figure out why it was useful. That something is bash aliases, and I'll now
walk you through how to create aliases, and the two main ways in which I use
them (although I'm …
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Mon 29 April 2019
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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Mon 22 April 2019
Admittedly, this TOTW is one day late, so this week there will be 2xTOTW! In
any case, the tip I want to bring up here is very much related to last week's
TOTW on Reverse search in bash. Sometimes,
reverse searching just doesn't work out. You may not be quite …
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Tue 09 April 2019
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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Tue 09 April 2019
In order to actually get around to writing some content, I've decided to start
a little series: Tip of the Week! Every week, I'll spend 30 minutes or so
writing a very small article about some tip related to programming, Linux or
technology in general. And no, this one does …
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