It's funny how small, trivial things can lead you to make radical changes in the tools you use. As regular readers of this blog know, I collect sayings that I publish every month. I then compile these sayings into a custom fortune file that displays one saying every time I login to my computer or … Continue reading Mutt: Viewing Attachments / HTML via .mailcap and a Custom Fortune as a Signature in Mutt
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Newsboat
Newsboat is the Mutt of RSS readers. Works and looks pretty much the same as mutt. In making the conversion, I learned that I have over 500 RSS feeds, which in combination with a few dozen newsletters via email is how I discover the material to post to this blog. I used to use an … Continue reading Newsboat
bash: Cryptocurrency Prices From the Linux Terminal
#!/bin/bash printf -v coin '%s' -1 # crypto.sh bitcoin price() { # A function that pulls cryptocurrency price data from coingecko curl -X 'GET' 'https://api.coingecko.com/api/v3/simple/price?ids='"$1"'&vs_currencies=usd' \ -H 'accept: application/json' 2> /dev/null | # sends download data to /dev/null sed 's/.*usd"://' | # Removes everything before the price sed 's/..$//' | # Removes back two }} … Continue reading bash: Cryptocurrency Prices From the Linux Terminal
Deep Daze
"Deep Daze is a command-line tool for text to image generation using OpenAI's CLIP and Siren. Users simply type a description of an image, for example, 'a house in the forest', and it will generate that image. Examples are available in the repository."-https://github.com/lucidrains/deep-daze
Easiest Guide to .bashrc
"Digesting the syntax and logic of how a bash program is structured has always been an issue. I hope this will make people’s lives a bit easier and make bash a bit more straight forward."-Olafur Palsson, "Easiest Guide to .bashrc" itnext.io. February 7, 2021.
An Introduction To Data Science On The Linux Command Line
...provide[s] the reader with a brief overview for a number of different Linux commands. A special emphasis will be placed on explaining how each command can be used in the context of performing data science tasks. The goal will be to convince the reader that each of these commands can be extremely useful, and to … Continue reading An Introduction To Data Science On The Linux Command Line
OverTheWire: Wargames
"The wargames offered by the OverTheWire community can help you to learn and practice security concepts in the form of fun-filled games." http://overthewire.org/wargames/ Beyond security, the first game, "Bandit," is a useful introduction to the command line, common tools, e.g, ssh, man, grep, etc., and basic operating system concepts, such as permissions.
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