Although my daily device is a Macbook, there are situations where I need to set up a few virtual machines in order to quickly test something, or set up a lab to learn stuff without worrying much about breaking things. In short, I need systems that I can spin up, do whatever I want to … Read more
Want to check the weather report directly from your terminal? Simply add the following to your .bashrc or .zshrc file: Source or restart your terminal and then all you need to do is type weather followed by any location. For example: How cool is that!!? I found this works with postcodes as well, although not … Read more
Here’s how to run Windows Terminal profiles (Command Prompt & PowerShell) in elevated mode without having to run Windows Terminal as Administrator. To do so, we will use a nifty package manager named [Chocolatey](<https://chocolatey.org/install>) in order to install gsudo . gsudo is a sudo equivalent for Windows, with a similar user-experience as the original Unix/Linux … Read more
If you don’t use VIM, learn VIM! It’s quite daunting learning this text editor. When I was starting up with Linux, a colleague launched vim on my terminal and asked me to quit out of it. I was pressing Ctrl+C, escape, Ctrl+C AND escape and all kinds of key combinations but I simply could not … Read more
If you’re like me and spend most of your time in the terminal, switching to another app to take notes may interrupt your workflow. To quickly take notes without jumping apps, I found a nice tool named TaskBook here. To install it, simply use this one-liner: Once installed, try tb –help for a list of … Read more
So you just started getting busy with Linux. 2 things: Congrats & FI-NAL-LY! Welcome to the world of ASCII, endless typing and unforgivable mistakes! The road to grasping this ancient OS is a treacherous yet wonderful one, paved with mysteries and easter eggs that continuously amaze even the most hardened and decorated digital veterans out … Read more