Shell Tutorials
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Convert JPG, PNG, and Animated GIF to WEBP
New image formats like WEP and MOZJPEG will be a major boost to load time on the web. The majority of page load and render time is usually attributed to unoptimized images, so these new formats will make both mobile and desktop load times faster. I've...
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Create Context Menu Items in Mac Finder
As much as I like exercising my command line skills, for many tasks I'd rather click a time or two. The problem is that
yarn install,brew install, and other package managers don't come with UI extending capabilities...so knowledgable people like us need to find a...
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How to checksum
Many of us see the term checksum and checksum outputs frequently but don't really take the time to run them -- oftentimes we simply trust the file we've downloaded is in working order and from the original source. This past weekend when I was attempting to...
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Show Hidden Files in Mac Finder
Setting up a new machine is a great time for me to write blog posts about configuration settings that I'd forgotten to document. Much of the time I refer back to this post to figure out how I did things like Add Dock Separators and...
![Node EADDRINUSE (Address Already in Use) Error]()
Node EADDRINUSE (Address Already in Use) Error
Every once in a while my MacBook Pro freaks out and a process goes rogue. This oftentimes happens when I'm working on the excellent debugger.html project; I attempt to start the server side of the debugger and suddenly I'm hit with an error that resembles the...
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Split Files Into Smaller Files
As fast as internet connections have gotten over the years, it seems the size of files we want to share has grown faster. Whether it's archive (ZIP), video, or any other host of potentially large file types, it's still tricky to put these large files somewhere...
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Show git Branch from Command Line
Whether it's simply submitting pull requests or being snobby enough to use vim as a text editor, web developers and designers spend an awful lot of time working from command line. If you do work with git, you know it's important to keep track of your branches...
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Node.js Debugging
Proper logging is of massive utility for web apps, both during development and after deployment. What can sometimes be difficult is organizing both the code and output of logging, i.e. knowing where each log message is coming from. I recently found
debug, a Node.js utility...
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Create a Waveform Image with ffmpeg
Waveform images have a variety of uses and I've started seeing waveform images overlaying at the bottom of videos. That type of feature seems useful if you want to see identify music in a video or specific spaces in a video which feature action. If you're...
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Create Aliases in Bash
Every developer likes a shortcut -- they're what make us more efficient in our work. Of course there are good shortcuts and bad shortcuts (lazy coding, lack of security review, etc.), but let's stick with the positive and talk about a good shortcut: bash aliases. We all have commands...
