Bash aliases are great. Whether you use them to quickly connect to servers or just soup up the standard bash commands, they are a useful tool for eliminating repetitive tasks. I'm always adding new ones to optimize my workflow which, of course, lead to me create aliases to optimize that workflow....
A few days ago, I saw a Guess my word game on the front page of Hacker News. Before spoiling the fun for myself by checking out the comments, I decided to try my hand at writing a solution in Elixir. Afterwards, I generalized the code to choose its own word from the UNIX dictionary and then "guess"...
Hello and welcome to my third and final attempt to start a blog. To be honest, the hardest part has been choosing what tool to use to build and maintain the blog itself. I've been so inundated with The Next Big Thing™ in [static][Metalsmith] [site][Octopress] [generators][StaticGen] that I never...
If you spend most of your time in the command line, you don't want to leave to do math. Qc is a script that does in-line command line math without forcing you to exit the main bash prompt as you might with a program like bc or a language interpreter.