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Posts with category: github

• Advanced dotenv config files for bash scripts • 25 Apr 2021
  A technique commonly used practice in (deployment of) software projects is to put your local configuration, environment variables and secrets in a .env file in the root of your project. This .env file is structured as a one-dimensional lookup table...
• Find installation folder for bash scripts • 24 Apr 2021
  This is the start of a series on some bash tricks and features that I’ve developed for the bashew bash scripting micro-framework.
• Generate individual tag/category/author pages for your Jekyll website • 21 Mar 2021
  I’ve been migrating more and more of my websites to Jekyll static sites, from Wordpress. The advantages are clear: version management with git suits me (it’s how I develop software). deployment/hosting with Github Pages is very easy and can be...
• Detecting excessive SSD wear on Apple Silicon M1 machines • 22 Feb 2021
  Some more professional users of the new M1 Macbooks are experiencing extremely high drive writes over relatively short time. The most severe cases have “consumed” about 10-13% of the maximum warrantable TBW (Total Bytes Written) value of the SSDs (given...
• Creating image reveal videos with ffmpeg and primitive (bash) • 21 Jan 2021
  One of the projects I started during the lockdown is @squaredforwork which is now named “Guess the movie?” . It is based on years of experimenting with image manipulation and information reduction. Basically: how much visual information do you need...
• Using Homebrew on Apple Silicon M1 natively (bash) • 19 Dec 2020
  After reading all the raving reviews online about the new Apple M1-based Mac computers, and after losing too much time with my overheating MacBook Pro 2013 that’s on its last legs, I caved and bought a Mac Mini M1.
• Splashmark: easy Unsplash image markup on the command line (bash) • 07 Oct 2020
  See this photo below? It was created with one, albeit rather long, command line:
• Easy site deployment on Gandi with git and gdeploy (bash) • 06 Apr 2020
  (Use this link to get 6 months of free hosting on Gandi!).
• New project: bash boilerplate generator on toolstud.io • 03 Jun 2018
  I like to automate. I like it so much that I will not hesitate to spend 8+ hours on writing a script that replaces 5 minutes of work every month. Most of my automation is for CLI (command line interfaces)....