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📅 July 18, 2020

HOW TO: Make a Bootable USB by Downloading an .ISO or an Image Directly to Your Thumbdrive

Make a Bootable USB by Download an .ISO or an Image Directly to Your Thumbdrive

When you want to install a new OS, you usually create a bootable USB flash drive with the .iso of that OS. To do that you can use GUI programs like Etcher or Rufus or the dd command. Or maybe you’ll take the more convinient route and create a multiple-ISO bootable drive.

But, maybe, you just want to create an Ubuntu LTS bootable flash drive and just throw it in your backpack or hang it on your keychain, just in case you’ll ever need it. Maybe, for any reason, you don’t want to download the iso or image to your HDD/SSD. Maybe you’re out of space. But you really need to make a bootable drive.

You can just write the ISO files directly to your USB drive as you download it from the internet.

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📅 July 2, 2020

A Better TLDR

An upgraded TLDR experience

A couple of weeks ago I showed you a few awesome man pages alternatives. One of them is TLDR. Today we’re going to upgrade the TLDR experience with TLDR++.

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📅 June 18, 2020

Man Page Alternatives

A few man page alternatives to help you be more productive

Man page. Short for manual page. It’s a form of software documentation usually found on a Unix or Unix-like operating system ( like Linux and macOS ). So when you’re using the terminal and you’re not sure how a command or a program works, you can always RTFM.

The problem with man pages is that, some pages, are massivly long and sometimes depending on the command or program it’s hard to find the information you need.

Here’s a few manpage alternatives that are abbreviated and straight to the point to help you be more productive.

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📅 April 30, 2020

Bashtop: An Htop Alternative Written in Bash

An Htop Alternative Written in Bash

Here’s a quick post about a cool Linux program ( macOS support coming soon ) called bashtop. It’s a resource monitor that shows usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes, an alternative to Htop, that’s writte in bash.

The great thing about bashtop being written in bash is that it comes with no real dependencies for running the program and it’s very easy to install. If you’re on Arch and derivates you can install it from the community repo or AUR. If you’re on Debian/Ubuntu and derivates there’s a .deb you can use. Or you can clone repository and just install it that way.

Features:.

Fast and responsive UI with UP, DOWN keys process selection.
Function for showing detailed stats for selected process.
Ability to filter processes.
Easy switching between sorting options.
Send SIGTERM, SIGKILL, SIGINT to selected process.
UI menu for changing all config file options.
Auto scaling graph for network usage.
Shows message in menu if new version is available
Themes

For more info check out the project page on Github.

📅 April 16, 2020

Search and Preview Fonts Using The Terminal

a commandline tool that lets you quickly search for fonts that are installed on your machine and preview them

fontpreview is a commandline tool that lets you quickly search for fonts that are installed on your machine and preview them. The fuzzy search feature is provided by fzf and the preview is generated with imagemagick and then displayed using sxiv.

This tool is highly customizable, almost all of the variables in this tool can be changed using the commandline flags or you can configure them using environment variables.

Arch and Arch based distro users can install fontpreview from AUR. But it’s easy to install it on other distros too. Check out fontpreview on Github to learn how to install and configure it.

📅 March 11, 2020

A Terminal Interface for Tetris

Here’s classic tile-matching puzzle video game for Linux and macOS users: Tetris.

Install:

on macOS via Homebrew brew install samtay/tui/tetris
on Arch/Manjaro/Arco etc the package is available in AUR yay -S tetris-terminal-git
other Linux distros via snapcraft sudo snap install tetris-thefenriswolf

Usage:

Once installed start the game with tetris.

Available options:

 
-h,--help                Show this help text
-n,--no-preview          Don't show preview cell
-a,--ascii-only          Use '[]' as hard drop preview cell
-p,--preview-chars CHARS Customize two character preview cell (default: ◤◢)
-l,--level LEVEL         Specify level (unspecified results in prompt)
--high-score             Print high score and exit

📅 October 12, 2019

Cool Apps For Your Terminal

a bunch of cool cli terminal apps you can use right now

For some reason, most macOS users avoid the terminal. Some of them don’t even know a shell even exists.

I’m not going into why you’d better off using the terminal, at least for the most common tasks. But I am going to show you some cool and fun cli apps that you can install and use right now. Maybe this will spark your interest.

Jump over the break to check out the apps, in no particular order…

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📅 September 2, 2019

iStats: Check Sensor and Battery Stats

iStats is a command-line tool that allows you to easily grab the CPU temperature, fan speeds and battery information on macOS

Here’s a nifty little Ruby gem that allows you to read your Mac’s sensors in Terminal – iStats.

Not to be confused with iStat Menu, a closed source GUI tool that costs $10 and does similar things.

iStats is simply a free macOS command-line tool that allows you to easily grab the CPU temperature, fan speeds, battery stats etc.

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📅 May 7, 2014

Betty Is A Siri-Like App That Turns Plain English Into Code

a tool that translates plain English into Unix commands

Working with the command line isn’t always easy as you have to memorize all sorts of commands like like “rm,” for removing a file, or “grep,” which finds particular chunks of text buried in a collection of files. That’s why, Google engineer and open source developer, Jeff Pickhardt created Betty a tool that translates plain English into Unix commands, the commands that popped up on the UNIX operating system in the ’70s and are still used by Apple’s OS X operating system, the open source Linux OS, and even Microsoft’s PowerShell environment.

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📅 May 25, 2011

HOW TO: Remotely Send Text Messages From Command Line

Today, we’re going to show you a nifty way to use the command line in order to send text messages from your iPhone.

Today, we’re going to show you a nifty way to use the command line in order to send text messages from your iPhone. Continue reading “HOW TO: Remotely Send Text Messages From Command Line”