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  1. Powerful Git Macros For Automating Everyday Workflows

    Improve your everyday git workflows by automating the boring stuff.

    Wil Hall
    May 14, 2020
    • Git
    • DevTools
    • Unix
    • Shell
    • Productivity
  2. Executables can Introspect their Output Destination

    Sometimes, a programs output will depend on where it is sending that output.

    Sid Raval
    December 6, 2019
    • TIL
    • Unix
    • Shell
  3. Templating tmux with tmuxinator

    tmux does one thing and does it well as any unix tool should, but that doesn’t mean you should stop there.

    Simon van Dyk
    March 13, 2019
    • tmux
    • CLI
    • Unix
  4. Following the Path

    A journey into requiring files via $PATH and $LOAD_PATH.

    Joël Quenneville
    April 10, 2017
    • Web
    • Ruby
    • Unix
  5. Executing Elevated Commands in Your Current Environment

    No more maintaining multiple versions of gems for your system Ruby!

    Justin Kenyon
    March 9, 2016
    • Ruby
    • Unix
  6. Ruby's ARGF

    How to write well-behaved data-processing Unix utilities in Ruby.

    Calle Erlandsson
    October 13, 2015
    • Ruby
    • Unix
  7. Input/Output Redirection in the Shell

    Delve deep into stdout, stderr, and pipes plus some neat tricks that you might not know.

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    August 3, 2015
    • Unix
  8. CSVKit Brings the Unix Philosophy to CSV

    Use CSVKit to parse CSV at the command line.

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    March 27, 2015
    • Unix
  9. Announcing pick

    Fuzzy select anything.

    Calle Erlandsson and Mike Burns
    March 10, 2015
    • News
    • Open Source
    • Unix
    • C
  10. jq is sed for JSON

    Slice and dice your JSON with jq.

    Gabe Berke-Williams
    February 25, 2015
    • Web
    • JavaScript
    • Unix
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