Category: Programming
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The Greatly Exaggerated Death of Perl
Perl is great. I would not say I am an expert at it, but I have been working with this fascinating programming language for a number of years that it’s become something close to a reflex.So it’s not exactly neutral territory when someone tells me Perl is dying; it gets under my skin every time…
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Reclaim Your Terminal: How Lazygit Supercharges Your Git Workflow
Finding the right tools for your development workflow is a constant struggle, and Git tooling is no exception. Despite the plethora of Git clients available, none of them ever felt quite right. For a while, I settled on GitFiend. It worked well enough, but my workflow was still not quite right: I’d use the GUI…
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Why XFCE Makes Windows Optional
Windows isn’t the default anymore. Xfce is fast, familiar, and finally polished — running it on Fedora’s bleeding-edge spin, coming off years of i3, and I haven’t noticed a single performance hit.
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AWK CSV Column Sum: Quick Command Line Tutorial
Imagine you have a file with multiple columns and you need to quickly get the total of a column in command line in UNIX. The easiest way is to use AWK in the command line. Let’s take the following file: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 3 4 5 6 7…
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Adding Code Formatting Tools in Notepad++
I am a big fan of beautiful code, not only in terms of quality of programming but also formatting the code nicely so that it is easy on eyes. If you are using a full-blown IDE, they come with their own formatting facility, but if you are using a multipurpose editor such as Notepad++, then…
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PCL – Centering Variable-width Text (Still Stuck with PCL? Read On.)
If you’ve ever had to deal with PCL (Printer Command Language), you’ll know the pain: there’s no command to center text. Some printers support HPGL commands embedded in a PCL file, but not all. If you’re printing predefined text, you can work out measurements and use absolute positioning. Easy enough. But when your text is…
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