Exploring permutations and a mystery with BSD and GNU split filenames
Recently, I was playing around with the split command-line tool on Mac OS X, and I decided to chop a 4000-line file into 4000 separate single-line files. However, when I attempted to run split -l1, I ran into a funny error: split: too many files Curious to see if any
Look Out, 2018
I saw dozens of these "me at the start of 2017" memes floating around at the close of 2017, and I couldn't help but share in some collective sense of exhaustion after a year marked by alarming US / world news, a very dynamic — sometimes dizzying — work life at
Bash Prompt Mods: Last Command Time and Conditional Exit Codes
I've been spending a lot of time thinking about how I can improve my bash productivity and understand when / why things have gone wrong sooner. Luckily, I stumbled upon this golden blog post by Jake McCrary. Put the last command's run time in your Bash prompt via @climagic
Unintended tweets from @CoinForTechConf
I recently learned some lessons from the first Twitter bot I made: @CoinForTechConf. This bot was built due to laziness - I didn't want to keep running the same Twitter search queries to discover scholarships for tech conferences. I wanted to build something that would find scholarships for me, notify
Minimum Freakout Project: MVP Planning
While talking about tech projects, you might hear the acronym "MVP" thrown around, or minimum viable product. Think of it as the absolute bare minimum that you can squeak by with and call something "done" within a given time period. Keeping the MVP in mind was