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A tool to save, access and organize standup and other types of daily notes in the terminal.

A post explaining how a command to find date palindromes in the Linux shell works.

A tutorial for adding tab completion to your scripts using the Bash Programmable Completion functionality.

How to remove duplicate lines of a file in Linux without sorting or changing their order.

A Linux shell script for registering directory aliases and navigating to them with tab completion.

How to change brightness with the function keys on an iMac running Debian

In this post we are going to play around with full text searching with Elasticsearch and Linux man pages.

goto is a utility that allows users to navigate easily to directories via their previously defined aliases. It comes with an auto-complete feature making navigation pretty fast.

This is a tutorial familiarizing users with the creation of bash completion scripts. With this walk-through readers gain a good understanding on how the bash completion mechanism works and they can use the knowledge to create their own completions scripts.

Lately I was experimenting with GTK+ and its Ruby bindings and I decided to write a tutorial introducing this functionality. In this post we are going to create a simple ToDo application (something like what we created here with Ruby on Rails) using the gtk3 gem a.k.a. the GTK+ Ruby bindings.