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    Download a YouTube Channel’s Videos

    YouTube is an endless source of entertainment, be it stuff you're proud to share you like or stuff you would rather others not know about (see: David's history of watching old WWE Royal Rumbles).  I watch a lot of YouTube in hotels and on flights when...

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    Turn Bluetooth On and Off from Command Line on macOS

    Bluetooth has been a revelation in wireless technology: wireless mice, headphones, streaming devices, and a variety of home and office environments.  It goes without saying that wireless peripherals are so much easier to manage than wired counterparts, especially mice, that I usually have my MacBook's bluetooth...

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    Mercurial: Mass Add and Remove All Files

    While I much prefer git and the GitHub workflow, Firefox's codebase (mozilla-central) is store in a mercurial repository.  There are tools that wrap mercurial so you can use a git-like interface, like git-cinnabar, but my philosophy is to learn the root tool so that I...

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    Change Mac Brightness from Command Line

    Earlier this week I posted about how you can modify your Mac's volume from command line.  Little command line scripts make me smile because I spend so much of my day in command line, and automation can be the key to productivity.  I next thought about...

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    Find and Change Default App for File Type from Command Line

    There are few things more frustrating to any computer user than files opening in an unwanted application.  Sure you can use the Open menu item in the desired application but we all just want to double-click a file and see it open in the application we expect. ...

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    Change System Volume from Command Line on Mac OS

    Oftentimes the awesome GUI applications we love are simply gloss over a command line functionality.  While I do love a visual app, it's always good to know how to do things from command line, if only for the sake of automation.  I've covered loads of

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    How to Get Green Blood in PUBG

    My current video game obsession is Player Unknown's Battleground, also referred to as PUBG.  It's an online multiplayer game which drops yourself and 99 others into a single, large map and you battle it out until the last man is standing.  It's frustrating, heart-attack inducing, exciting...it's...

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    Aliases with JavaScript Destructuring

    Destructuring in JavaScript has totally changed the way JavaScript is written these days;  code is more concise to write but but, from a visual standpoint, the syntax of the language has changed so much.  Any good developer knows, however, that change is the constant we live...

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    Object.freeze: Immutable Objects

    One of my favorite part of JavaScript has always been mutability of objects.  I loved that MooTools and likewise frameworks could modify native prototypes to enhance them with functionality we knew the language need; in fact, I credit MooTools with pushing the web forward. There are cases...

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    Repeat Bash Prompts

    I'm sure you wont be surprised when I tell you it's my job to automate things in our my household.  My wife is tech savvy but she relies on me to make tech matters easy for everyone; I guess it's flattering that she trusts me to do...