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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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 …
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
Read Article →To save and exit; press …
How to Delete large amount of files in directory
So you have clearly got a very large amount of files!
If you issue the conventional rm -rf * within the directory, you will get an error -bash: …
How to Merge multiple files, removing duplicate values
If you have multiple files and you want to remove duplicate values from, while creating a single file.
File1 (one.txt):
123
123
234
345
File2 …
Read Article →Just SSH to my Jump Box!
I am a professional software engineer and do an absolute ton of devops work as well.
I’ve actually never been hired into devops roles as I …
Read Article →Connection broken by ‘SSLError(SSLError(1, ‘[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:777)’
This happens when your machine does not have the correct certificate bundle to access the Pypi repository, or you are behind a corporate proxy that …
Read Article →Get the output of an application logged in the terminal
Sometimes you need to see what an application is doing under the hood — what files it’s opening, what system calls it’s making, or what …
Read Article →Speedtest on Ubuntu Server (commandline)
If you’re managing a headless Ubuntu server and want to check the network speed, you can’t just open speedtest.net in a browser. The …
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