Jay Tuckey's BlogJust read a post by Drew DeVault: https://drewdevault.com/2020/11/06/Utility-vs-usability.html I very much agree. So many people treat working with computers as “I don’t like it but I have to do it.” Often these people learn only the minimum required to get something done. I think that, as professionals, we need to treat computers as tools to […]
I’ve been moving a bunch of my shell scripts to python recently, because of how much better it handles the concept of “a process didn’t run successfully”. Consider the bash script: What happens here if Command 2 fails? Note that we still get the success message at the end – bash silently ignored our error-ing […]
We have recently set up an IPAM at my workplace, the excellent phpIPAM – https://phpipam.net/ I went through our install and added all our subnets into the IPAM, but to make the data much more useful we wanted to have the VLAN information also: However, I didn’t want to go through by hand, adding each […]
Here are some tools that I really like using when I’m working from the command line: Fish shell The fish shell is an awesome shell with loads of autocomplete and helper tools: https://fishshell.com/ Mosh Mosh is an SSH replacement that has a much lower latency implementation: https://mosh.org/ Restic As the tagline says, backups done right! […]