You can create Git aliases for long or repetitive commands which map to short cuts. This can make your workflow more efficient as it…
I use this plugin for emojis on my website. The reference to all possible emojis are hidden here.The current emojis include the following…
Note: I am running macOS Mojave on a 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 with 16 GB 2133 MHz LPDDR3 RAM. I am setting up my environment to write some…
Hooray, I now have a new MacBook Pro! I never thought the day would come where that would happen. I've always been a Microsoft junkie…
The utility was designed to replace 99% of the uses of grep.As stated in the man pageAck searches the named input FILEs (or standard input…
I am creating a simple Clojure web app and API. In this post I explore how to create each with the command and what references I need to…
The message of the day is known as motd. It's used to send a message to users after logging into a shell, commonly used on hosts.You can…
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliancy is known as the Cisco ASA. It is used to protect networks and data centres.It offers firewall, VPN and…
I work with NATs and ACLs on Cisco ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) in the terminal. I want a sandbox environment for me to go bonkers. I…
An NRT (near-realtime) search platform. It's about a one second delay from the time a document is indexed until it is searchable…
An NRT (near-realtime) search platform. It's about a one second delay from the time a document is indexed until it is searchable.I have been…
I installed an application. It misbehaved.I wanted to try out a time tracking app. It should let me track reminders and record activity…
Mosh - the mobile shell. This remote terminal let's you roam with intermittent connectivity without breaking your SSH tunnel.The package…
$JAVA_HOME an environment variable. It is the root path of the JRE or JDK which some applications and services use to access Java.I know…
I have a repository with two remotes. origin is my personal repository and bitbucket is by BitBucket repository. The nugget of this post is…
I want to create a symlink for all hidden files excluding the hidden directories. I want to put my configuration files in my home directory…
I wrote about crafting changes into small atomic commits using Git. It looked like there was some confusion. I want to share what I…
Small, atomic commits makes it easier for code reviews, browsing the history and reverting changes. Life happens and commits can touch more…
I used to right-click on a zipped file and manage the archive using the GUI. Gone are those days. Now I mainly work with tar files and need…
I had to find out much free space was available on a file system on a Linux server. Now getting this information on the GUI is simple - a…
Once I installed a development service on port 3000 and I forgot about it. When I ran my project I couldn't start it because the port was in…
I want to enable search on my blog. I started looking into different solutions. I started with ElasticSearch but came across too many issues…
It's simple. I wanted to log to Graylog from my Clojure application. I banged my head numerous times trying to figure out how and why it did…
I had to re-install so I documented my process. In this post, I focus on the installation of my most used apps.Get ready is Dandified YUM…
I had to re-install so I documented my process. In this post, I focus on getting my data backed up so that I can restore it after the…
I had to re-install so I documented my process. In this post, I focus on getting a Fedora 28 live media installation ready on a USB boot…
I had to re-install so I documented my process. In this post, I focus on configuring my shell for a personalized experience.Install Oh My…
I needed to format my HDD because ... reasons. For a change, I decided to play around with Fedora instead of Ubuntu. The installation was…
In this post I work through transactions. The example queries are grabbed from the Datomic Docs. If you want to get started with Datomic…
In this post I work through more querying capabilities using the Datomic MusicBrainz sample database. The example queries are grabbed from…
In this post I work through the creation of rules using the Datomic MusicBrainz sample database. The example queries are grabbed from the…
In this post I work through pull expressions using the Datomic MusicBrainz sample database. The example queries are grabbed from the Datomic…
In this post I work through querying the Datomic MusicBrainz sample database. The example queries are grabbed from the Datomic Docs. If you…
Get started with the essentials of Datomic from installing Datomic, running a transactor, working with the Datomic console, running the…
I developed corporate programmer using a Ruby-based static-site generator called Jekyll. It transforms Markdown, Liquid, HTML and CSS to a…
When I first started with Clojure, my mind was foggy and filled with a swarm of buzzwords. There were tools, plugins, libraries, patterns…
I have used Windows for over twenty years. Oh my goodness that's a long bloody time.Now I've joined the Linux world. It's thrilling. I'm…
Don't take your knowledge for granted. Share it. Someone could learn something new. It also helps you remember it. Keep a record of what you…
There is a page that we want to monitor. It has a lot of valuable information on it and fits nicely on a 4K screen. A ROCK64 device will…
The byte order mark or BOM is an invisible Unicode magic number that can be found at the beginning of a text stream.We recently changed…
When someone new works on your repository, make sure it is easy to get setup.Imagine if we didn't have any documentation; if we all adopted…
If you are new to fiddles, it's an online code playground that let's you quickly experiment, visualize results and share code without having…
The HTML5 specification has introduced more elements to aid us with semantic markup. I've discussed some of the design changes as well as…
In 2005 Google sampled over a billion documents. This highlighted popular class names, elements, attributes and other related metadata.The…
Elements, attributes, and attribute values are semantic according to the HTML5 Specification.These definitions allow HTML processors, such…
Discover the simulation power behind the Device Mode feature in Google Chrome.Chrome DevTools has a feature called Device Mode since Chrome…
Version control is like time travel for source code. If commits are monolithic and the messages suck... what exactly are you going back to?I…
After an interesting debate, I decided to explore some of the problems that teams may face with microservices architecture.Trying to…