I’ve been using Midnight Commander for years and I still enjoy it pretty much. The first time I’ve seen a file manager using the multi-column layout was on NeXTSTEP operating system. It was pretty smart, I felt in love with this operating system. When I first used yazi it reminded me of the early days of this OS who hasn’t been around long enough for my taste. So let me introduce you to yazi, a terminal based multi-column file manager written in Rust. ...
After two years of efforts and a $300k donation to the Zig Software Foundation, Mitchell Hashimoto has just announced the availability of version 1.0 of his Ghostty terminal emulator. He wanted Ghostty to be fast, feature-rich, and native on MacOS and Linux. I couldn’t find on the documentation a list of default key bindings for MacOS so here it is, plus some more stuff that I used extracted from the documentation. We don’t see any new terminal emulator often, so I urge you to try it out. ...
With more and more applications, Docker, InfluxDB, Kubernetes, etcd, Grafana, using Go as their foundation, it’s interesting to understand the reasoning behing it. In this article we’ll also share some pointers and cheatsheet to learn Go. Introduction Go was first introduced in 2007 at Google by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. The main objective was to solve their own issues. Google developpers were using C/C++, Java and Python, complexity was growing and it became harder to maintain a level of coherence between their different projects. All three creators shared their dislike of C++ complexity as a primary motivation for designing a new language. ...
OpenStack is evolving at a rapid pace and for those of you that were here in the early beginning, you may have lost track of the new kids on the block. OpenStack CLI tools is one of them, and is a common client which does many things. In this article I’ll not only review this one but will gather all the toolkit at our disposal from the command line to drive Mirantis OpenStack. Please fasten your seat belts ;) ...
I’ve been playing with cheatsheets for years, it all started when I studied mathematics. I still have few booklets back from university. I love cheatsheet to tell you the truth, the one thing I love the most is to reduce as much as possible the paper estate taken by information. I have the impression to memorize everything easily when I shrink it. Computers have changed that radically, back when the first programmable calculators appeared on the market, the first digital cheatsheet appeared. It was the beginning of a long story which bring us today to Cheat . A small Python command line program that will be on your side when for god sake you completely forgot the options to block a port using iptables or how to quickly share a file thru HTTP using Python, etc… ...
It’s for sure not the first or the last cooking article about Oh My Zsh!, but if you don’t know it, just try it, you’ll understand why so much people are blogging about it. So let’s start by the official description. It’s a community-driven framework initiated by Robby Russel for managing your zsh configuration. It includes 40+ optional plugins (rails, git,OSX, hub, capistrano, brew, ant, macports, etc), over 80 terminal themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community. Looks great isn’t it ? So let’s dig it ! ...
Haml (HTML abstraction markup language) is based on one primary principle: markup should be beautiful. It’s not just beauty for beauty’s sake either; Haml accelerates and simplifies template creation down to veritable haiku. Here is how Haml markup is presented on the inventor site, in this article we’ll give you the basis to start using it instead of Erb for your next web project. Installation % gem install haml Usage To create plugin hook in Rails ...
Sublime Text 2 is one of the best editor for text, code, markup and prose which is available for $59 on OSX, Windows and Linux. This cheatsheet is based on the Tuts+ online training by Jeffrey Way an editor fanatic who tried them all : Coda, TextMate, Vim. Installation on Ubuntu or Elementary OS Sublime Text 3 is in the works, still in beta. In the meantime you can install version 2.0.2, from a terminal: ...