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Working With the Jobs Command

January 13, 2023

UNIX-like operating systems have a handful of commands for managing running programs in the Terminal — here's how to use them...

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Vim Text Completion

February 21, 2018

I’ve been looking for a good autocomplete plugin for Vim for a while. It seems like the most popular option by far is YouCompleteMe (which I have been using for a while now). While I think YouCompleteMe is a good plugin, I also feel like it’s a bit heavy and seems to need a lot to setup and maintain. I always seem to have issues with the server going down.

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Ubuntu MATE on Raspberry Pi

March 13, 2017

I’ve been wanting to try out a Linux desktop for a while now. Mainly out of curiosity – I like to try new devices, operating systems, etc. I didn’t really want to invest in a computer just to *try* out a new OS, however. I had a couple older MacBooks lying around but I also had a Raspberry Pi 3 that I hadn’t quite decided what to do with.

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Moving Local Files with Rsync

June 1, 2014

I am very obsessive about backing up my data. To preserve space on my MacBook Air’s drive, I store most of media files on a WD Passport external drive. Additionally I back that media up on a second (and oftentimes a third) desktop external drive. Sure, this is a little OCD but it’d be quite a shame to lose all of my files, should my first Passport drive fail me.

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Virtual Terminal Sessions with Screen

January 14, 2014

Not so long ago, a co-worker and friend of mine introduced me to the UNIX application, screen. While I was really excited to learn of something so useful, I was also deeply saddened in realizing that it was right under my nose all this freaking time. In this short post, I’m going to show you how you can take advantage of this clever little utility.

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