How to use Screen on Linux
Screen on Linux is a popular command-line program that lets you multiplex between interactive shells.
What that means is, you can use screen to save …
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Transfer a domain from Namecheap
Namecheap is a pretty good registrar. As its name says, yes, it is usually pretty cheap. I would also like to point out that I personally have nothing …
Read Article →How to Package a Python App using Nuitka
Learn how to package a Python app in this tutorial.
For the most part, once you’ve written your Python code, you simply deploy it to a server, …
Read Article →Introduction to NPM
What is NPM?
NPM stands for Node Package Manager, and is the default way to extend your Node applications.
There are an absolute ton of packages …
Read Article →How to create a Symbolic Link on Linux / Mac
A symbolic link – or often just sym-link – is a pointer or shortcut to where the actual file lives on a filesystem. What does it take to create a …
Non-interactive git clone (ssh fingerprint prompt)
If you have ever been in the annoying situation where you had to run git clone from a server that you did not have interactive access to, such as a …
When your Python code is much faster with PyPy
Python is a very powerful language, there are so many libraries available for it.
However, many developers will complain about its speed by comparison …
Read Article →What it takes to be a Platform Engineer in 2020
Platform Engineering is something that grew out of a mix of what software developers and sysadmins had been doing for years.
The only real difference …
Read Article →Introduction to PIP – Python Package Manager
Python comes with a fully equipped package manager called PIP – which stands for the Python Package Manager.
PIP gives your python applications access …
Read Article →How to build a website quickly using PHP
PHP is a powerful scripting language created for the web.
It has come a long way since it’s initial inception in 1994.
It was originally created to …
Read Article →How to replace all occurrences of a string in Javascript
I have pretty much resigned myself to the fact that in Javascript, there are really only two ways to do a proper search and replace.
Firstly, we need …
Read Article →How to exit Vim
If only I had a dollar for every time I saw someone sitting at their computer, trying for the life of them to exit vim
TLDR;
Vim or sometimes just …