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This is the fifth part of the Bash One-Liners Explained article series. In this part I'll teach you how to quickly navigate around the command line in bash using emacs-style keyboard shortcuts. That's right, emacs-style keyboard shortcuts. It might surprise you but by default bash uses emacs-style keyboard shortcuts...
A tiny pet library for dealing with datetimes and timezones in Python.
While delivering a training recently, I got a request to put together a JVM tuning cheat sheet. Given the 50+ parameters available on the ...
I was recently asked for a list of
Introducing a new way to stare at the disassembly of your compiled C and C++
Like a lot of people, I have gone retro when it comes to editors, using Vim for most of my day to day work. I’ve been doing most of my development these days in a terminal window, logged directly into a VM where I test my code. For more, see this article. I have been a somewhat casual vi user for at least 15 years…
I noticed there are no MSVC examples in there — was it not a targeted compiler? If so, I’m curious as to why.
This post was written sixteen months ago, when fish briefly explored Go with the intention of writing a new command line shell. ( fish abandoned Go after discovering that terminal programming is what makes shells so horrible, and term programming is least horrible in C.)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
After the last post about high performance, high level programming, Slava Pestov, of Factor fame, wondered whether it was generally true that “if you want good performance you have to write C…
Web Presense Of Barry Steyn - Software Engineer, Entrepreneur
LLVM is a complex piece of software. There are several paths one may take on the quest of understanding how it works, none of which is simple. I recently had to dig in some areas of LLVM I was not previously familiar with, and this article is one of the outcomes of this quest.
Discover various UNIX / Linux scripting tools that add GUI widgets, network sockets and add some spice to your UNIX bash shell scripts.
Bart van Zon, software developer
Delta Air Lines tells me it will take two hours and twenty-five minutes to fly from New York City to Atlanta, GA. American says two thirty. United? Two thirty-four. Yet, the captain just told me it was “one-hour forty-five” minutes “wheels-up to wheels-down”. What gives?
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
If you’ve done Fourier series approximations of functions, you had three reactions to today’s XKCD comic :
Web performance monitoring is the process of tracking and analyzing the speed, uptime, and overall performance of a website to ensure an optimal user experience.
