Recent Updates

Note: The site is currently in a state of flux as I need to organize and merge the content from the previous site with the new content.

List of the recently updated and created topics:

Dec 5 :: Linux/Unix: Reading plain text strings from /dev/mem (3 min read)

Nov 16 :: Simplicity/Sanity Driven Development (SDD) (1 min read)

Nov 9 :: Linux/Unix: Understanding return codes (2 min read)

Nov 2 :: Linux/Unix: Quickly accessing the man page on a command switch (2 min read)

Oct 31 :: Linux: Using flock to ensure only one instance of the script is running (4 min read)

Oct 30 :: Unix Philosophy (3 min read)

Oct 26 :: Linux/Unix: Using pushd and popd to quickly change directories (2 min read)

Oct 25 :: Using navigator.clipboard API - Copy to clipboard in plain JavaScript (2 min read)

Oct 22 :: Linux/Unix: Quickly deleting the last word on the command line (1 min read)

Oct 20 :: Linux/Unix: Assigning multiple variables from the command output (1 min read)

Oct 18 :: Creating a directory tree at once in Linux/Unix (1 min read)

Oct 16 :: Cool CSS effects: Conic gradients (2 min read)

Oct 15 :: Truncating text with an ellipsis in CSS (1 min read)

Oct 14 :: Finding out environment variables of the process on Linux (2 min read)

Oct 13 :: Giving elements 3D perspective with CSS (1 min read)

Oct 12 :: Finding out which process is using a port on Linux (3 min read)

Oct 8 :: Shell timesaver: binding keys to commands (2 min read)

Oct 8 :: Setting up a simple SOCKS proxy tunnel over SSH (6 min read)

Oct 2 :: Places with free (no-attribution) images for your website/project (2 min read)

Oct 1 :: Simplicity as a prerequisite for reliability (1 min read)

Sep 27 :: Modern Web in Numbers (2 min read)

Sep 27 :: CLI: Backing up and restoring file modification times (3 min read)

Sep 15 :: Simple, reliable, fast (in that order) (2 min read)

Sep 12 :: Simple JavaScript template engine by (ab)using template literals (2 min read)

Sep 11 :: Shell timesaver: mkdir and cd combined (1 min read)

Sep 8 :: Inxi - Finding out hardware configuration on Linux (8 min read)

Sep 7 :: Understanding Simplicity (2 min read)

Sep 2 :: Resume Driven Development (RDD) (2 min read)

Sep 1 :: Async Race Conditions (on JavaScript example) (4 min read)

Aug 29 :: Functional core, imperative shell (4 min read)