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Let’s say the files you want to copy are in ~/Downloads. ...

Whenever the files are in the same directory, vidir from moreutils is the best interactive tool. If files are scattered across multiple directories, consider using the rename utility from util-linux. ...

The following commands will make the shell sleep indefinitely: ...

Given the password correct horse battery staple, we would like to bcrypt-hash it. XKCD Courtesy of Randall Munroe ...

This post exemplifies an efficient workflow to shorten the edit-refresh loop when dealing with github actions. ...

Pritunl is an Enterprise Distributed OpenVPN server. In order to run its client on macOS, an .app is provided. However, using it to log in every day is quite tedious. Let’s automate it so that we can connect to the VPN with a single command. ...

I learned a neat shell trick this week. In both bash and zsh you can use the circumflex / caret (^) symbol to find & replace a word from the previous command. Usage: ^prev^next. It’s best illustrated with examples: ...

When working on Python projects, pyenv is a great python environment / version manager, especially on macOS wherein you cannot easily control the python system version. ...

I used to have the following handy script to launch a new (fresh!) instance of Google Chrome when working on Chrome for Testing in the Browser Automation team at Google: ...

I changed my macOS system language to German, with the intent of getting more exposure to it. One negative side effect is that most binaries I execute with my shell (for example: git) are now outputting German text as well1. In hindsight, this should have been expected. ...