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Hi, I'm Kaushik Gopal. I host Fragmented an AI developer podcast and previously the most popular Android developer podcast. I'm also a Google Developer Expert for Android.

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How to Firefox

Chrome finally pulled the trigger on the web’s best ad-blocker, uBlock Origin. Now that Chrome has hobbled uBO, Firefox — my beloved —1 is surging again. I want to do my part to convince you to switch to Firefox and show you how I use it.

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What does $0=$2 in awk do?

The trick to understanding awk in all its terse glory is to understand its defaults. Most solutions you see in the wild are a clever symphony of awk defaults stacked on top of each other. In this post, I break down one of the most popular one-liners which should hopefully make future awk-ing pretty straight forward.