Last week I noticed a pattern in some of my shell workloads: run something in a shell, go change some code, run it again. And often I'm looking for some sort of change between runs. One of the most co...

JetBrains woes I have been a fan of JetBrains products for over a decade by now, and an unapologetic lover of IDEs generally. I've used PyCharm since shortly after it launched, and over the years I've...

Here's a fun one! You may already know that tarball is a pure archive format, and that any compression is applied to the whole archive as a unit. That is to say that compression is not actually applie...

I've been using nushell as my daily driver for about six months now, and wanted to show a few simple examples of why I'm enjoying it so much. I think it's a breath of fresh air compared to most shells...

If you're a developer or sysadmin, there's a pretty good chance you've had to transfer files back and forth. Back in the old days, you may have used the ftp utility or something similar (I think my fi...

Today I had a rather peculiar need to search through features from TIGER matching specific attributes. These files are not CSV or JSON, but rather ESRI Shapefiles. Shapefiles are a binary format which...

Sometimes I want to copy files from a remote machine--usually a server I control. Easy; just use scp, right? Well, today I had a subtly different twist to the usual problem. I needed to transfer a ~10...