How to Generate a Random AlphNumeric String in Linux/MacOS
If you need to generate a random AlphaNumeric string from the Linux/MacOS Command-Line, then you can use the following script:
dd if=/dev/random bs=8 …Mac
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What temperature does your Mac CPU idle at?
Sometimes you will find that your Mac is running very hot, and you may want to keep track of it over time to see if it’s persistent or only a …
Read Article →How to Fix the ‘Bad Interpreter’ Error from AWS and Python 3.7
This error often looks something like:
.zshrc: /usr/local/bin/aws: bad interpreter:
/usr/local/opt/python/bin/python3.6: no such file or directory …How to solve AttributeError: ‘int’ object has no attribute ‘split’ – make: [sharedmods] Error 1
If you get the following error while trying to install something via Homebrew
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'split' - make: *** …
How to Restart Sound Driver on a Mac
So for some strange reason, your audio has stopped playing through the Macbook Pro speakers, but if you plug in an external audio device, it still …
Read Article →How to tell what the CHMOD value of a file/directory is
chmod alters the permissions for a file or directory, you could allow full read/write access to a file or directory by running the following command: …
How to find all files in a directory with extension
I needed to find all files in a directory on Linux that ended with the file extension .php.
How to find all files in a directory with extension
You …
Read Article →How to Quickly Hide all Icons on a Mac’s Desktop
Why the need to hide icons?
Perhaps you have a screen-share session coming up and you want a nice clean desktop to show everyone. Also, nobody will …
Get the total size of all the files in a directory
It’s amazing how many times I’ve need to find out the total size of all the files in a directory on one of our servers.
I have grown to …
Read Article →Learn Golang as a Python Developer
Learning Go or Golang as a Python developer, programmer or software engineer is easier than you think.
While there are quite a lot of things to learn …
Read Article →Remove Special Characters in a String using Bash
Programming languages provide the ability to remove special characters from a string quite easily.
Sometimes you need to also do this from your …
Read Article →How to Install MongoDB on Mac
You can use Homebrew to install MongoDB on a Mac.
For ages you were able to simply do:
brew install mongodb, but more recently, that has stopped …