Hello Allison and NosillaCastaways, Allister from New Zealand here, once again, with a review of a geeky tool that will let you flex your Taming the Terminal muscles. On an episode of the Upgrade podcast Jason Snell talked about an open source utility called BitBar. This utility puts customisable information in the macOS menu bar […]
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CCATP #656 – Bart Busschots on PBS 103 of X — Getting Started With Git
After some quick revision from the previous episode, Bart explains how Git commands work with their subcommands. We start by looking at how to configure Git and the differences between local, global and system-level settings. Then we create our very first repo with an exciting README file, and we commit the file to our repo. […]
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CCATP #650 – Bart Busschots on Taming the Terminal 40 – Automating TMUX
This week’s Chit Chat Across the Pond is an episode of Taming the Terminal, where Bart winds up our series within a series all about the Terminal command TMUX. In this final piece he teaches us first how to string commands together to create the TMUX sessions we want with the screens split and the […]
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CCATP #645 – Bart Busschots on Taming the Terminal 38 of n – TMUX (a Screen Alternative)
When Bart first started the Taming the Terminal series in October of 2015, he purposely declared every installment to be “of n” where n was not defined. It’s been 3 years since there was an episode of Taming the Terminal, but today we’ve got a new one for you. In Taming the Terminal 36, recorded […]
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Taming the Terminal – by Tom on the Internet
You may know from way back that Bart and I did a podcast called Taming the Terminal. Bart was the instructor and I the student asking the “dumb” questions in which he taught me how to make the Terminal do my bidding. It was planned to be of limited length, and we stopped at 37 […]
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Tiny Tip – Show Hidden Files
DropShadow App Made With Automator and ImageMagick
Have you ever had a favorite piece of software be abandoned by the developer? I’m not even talking about Apple or Google here, but maybe some nifty little utility that does exactly what you want. For years I have been adding a pretty little drop shadow to all images I post on the blog with […]
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I’ve been working on a super challenging technical project for months now. I’ve wanted to tell you about it but I have run into so many barriers that I was unable to overcome, there wasn’t a good story to tell. I still have not conquered my original task but I’ve had some partial success so […]
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