“When working with Linux, Unix, and Mac OS X, I always forget which bash config file to edit when I want to set my PATH and other environmental variables for my shell. Should you edit .bash_profile or .bashrc in your home directory?”
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“There are a lot of ways to remove duplicate lines, but I want to leave only the unique lines, and delete all duplicated lines. There are thousands of lines I need to remove, and the unique lines are just 10-20 mixed with all those duplicate lines.”
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“In my last column, I wrote about dark patterns, but this time I want to discuss something that is literally rather than metaphorically dark: inverted polarity–display methods, or dark mode. But, for many UX designers, dark mode is a new thing because operating systems are now supporting it.”
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“I originally wrote the following for my Chainline Newsletter, but I continue to get tweets about this idea, so I’m re-publishing the article here on my blog. This version has been lightly edited. I’ve been thinking about the consequences of the “wrong abstraction.”
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“One of the most important (and confusing) git features in my new job was rebasing. Looking back now, the worst part was not finding a clear beginner’s guide. So for the past me, and any future devs like the past me, this intro is for you!”
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“curl is exceedingly powerful – unfortunately, much of this power is somewhat hidden in the purposeful non-verbosity and the underlying complexity of its numerous flags, configurations, and options. Once understood, curl boasts a wide range of powerful options.”
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“For the longest time I did not know what everything meant in htop.
I thought that load average 1.0 on my two core machine means that the CPU usage is at 50%. That’s not quite right. And also, why does it say 1.0?
I decided to look everything up and document it here.”
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“The best design tools for everything. Curated by Lisa Dziuba & Valia Havruliyk from Flawless team. Accessibility is the practice of creating websites and apps usable for all people, including individuals with visual, motor, auditory, speech, or cognitive disabilities.”
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“This event does not require a specific OAuth scope or subscription. You’ll automatically receive it whenever configuring an request URL. The attributes Slack sends include: Careful, response URLs are case sensitive.”
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“Recently I tried to create a Slack bot. It’s job was to read messages and, if ‘that would be great’ was detected in the content, respond to the message with a picture of Bill Lumbergh from Office Space (yeah, I’m a funny guy).”
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