I don't like cleaning, or just about anything else that is repetitive, I like to leave repetitive tasks to automation. Therefore I was excited to discover that git can keep your branches and tags from remote repositories clean automatically with the git fetch --prune. I have taken to adding it to...
I am a huge fan of Nextcloud as my service of choice for just about everything. Many years ago they added integration for Libreoffice and OnlyOffice, even including allowing multiple people to edit the same files in real time. This is a feature I was fascinated with, but every t...
This may seem like weird advice since I have a previous article extolling the wonders of using the correct tool for the correct job. As my may have guessed this post is about when the correct tool for the immediate task is different than the tool for the finished product.
Shortly after starting...
From the Go Time Podcast, it was discussed when you should write a CLI (command line interface) app in a full featured language instead of writing a shell script. The proposal of one of the casters was to rewrite common tools in the language you are trying to learn. I completely agree with this st...
https://graphite.dev has a website that describes a tool that can be very useful for projects with a lot of activity. More importantly they have a website that has elements that are pleasurable to view because of a strong design ascetic and some elements I have not encountered before. Please take t...