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41 votes
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BCD Watch automatically collects and makes available information about updates to Browser Compatibility Data
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
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Frog Protocols announced to try and speed up Wayland protocol development
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Stride Community Toolkit Preview - code-only feature basics in C#
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Viewport Tester — Test your website on 180+ device viewports
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What was your first programming language, what languages do you know now, and what tips do you have for those trying to learn any of those?
What was your first programming language, what other languages (if any) do you know now, and what tips do you have for those trying to learn any of those? Whether those tips are for beginners or...
What was your first programming language, what other languages (if any) do you know now, and what tips do you have for those trying to learn any of those? Whether those tips are for beginners or even advanced, to do with APIs, or if you've got a good library to share.
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SpaceTraders — A unique multiplayer game built on a free Web API
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Slowly booting full Linux on the intel 4004 for fun, art, and absolutely no profit
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Things learned serving on the board of the Python Software Foundation
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wordfreq will no longer be updated partly due to AI polluting the data
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What programming/technical projects have you been working on?
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's...
This is a recurring post to discuss programming or other technical projects that we've been working on. Tell us about one of your recent projects, either at work or personal projects. What's interesting about it? Are you having trouble with anything?
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Share your personal dotfile treats and Unix tool recommendations
I am currently preparing for a new job and cleaning up my dotfile repository. During the process, I had the idea that it would be nice to create a list of amazing tools, aliases, functions, and...
I am currently preparing for a new job and cleaning up my dotfile repository. During the process, I had the idea that it would be nice to create a list of amazing tools, aliases, functions, and recommendations together.
I will start.
First, here is a list of nice tools to
apt-get install
orbrew install
that I can wholeheartedly recommend:nvim
is just an amazing text editor.fzf
is a very good fuzzy finder util. For example, you can quickly find files with it.eza
is a goodls
replacement (and the successor ofexa
).bat
is a great replacement forcat
with nice integrations and many options.stow
is great for managing your dotfiles. Thanks to @TangibleLight for telling me about it some while ago. I really love it.tmux
is a terminal multiplexer, i.e. you can have many sessions in one single terminal window. It's easy to use and super helpful. (When on a mac, I prefer iTerm tabs, though.)nvm
is practically a must if you are working with Node.glow
is an excellent markdown reader.tldr
is a niceman
replacement. (You must runtldr -u
after installing it to update available texts.)z
, an amazing tool for switching directories quickly.
Also, I can recommend Oh My ZSH! which I have been using for years.
Here is a small list of aliases I enjoy (I have 100+ aliases and I tried to pick some others may enjoy as well):
# Serve current dir alias serve="npx serve ." # What's my IP? alias ip="curl --silent --compressed --max-time 5 --url 'https://ipinfo.io/ip' && echo ''" # This should be the default alias mkdir="mkdir -p" # Nice git helpers alias amend="git add . && git commit --amend --no-edit" alias nuke="git clean -df && git reset --hard" # Make which more powerful which='(alias; declare -f) | /usr/bin/which --tty-only --read-alias --read-functions --show-tilde --show-dot' # This saves so many keystrokes, honestly alias -- +x="chmod +x" # Turns your path into a nice list and prints it alias path='echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}' # Map over arguments and run a command # Usage: map <command> # Example: ls | map cat alias map="xargs -n1"
And, finally, here are some fun functions:
# Get cheat sheets for almost anything! # https://github.com/chubin/cheat.sh cheat() { WITH_PLUS=$(echo $@ | sed 's/ /+/g') CAT_TOOL=$(command -v batcat || command -v bat || command -v cat) curl "cheat.sh/$WITH_PLUS" | $CAT_TOOL } # Send everything to /dev/null nullify() { "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1 } # Create a new dir and enter it mk() { mkdir -p "$@" && cd "$_" } # Create a data URL from a file # Source: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.functions data-url() { local mimeType=$(file -b --mime-type "$1"); if [[ $mimeType == text/* ]]; then mimeType="${mimeType};charset=utf-8"; fi echo "data:${mimeType};base64,$(openssl base64 -in "$1" | tr -d '\n')"; }
74 votes