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Reconsidering bang history

2023-10-08 less than 1 minute read

As much as I like the idea of bang history expansion in the shell, I probably end up escaping “!” much more than I use it.

Prepend, don’t append, PATH

2023-10-06 2 minute read

I’ve seen this mistake too often to remain silent any longer.

Storing image assets in your repo and referencing in markdown Permalink

2023-10-05 less than 1 minute read

zsh: confounded by zshcompletions

2023-09-30 1 minute read

Seems like this should be easy.

zsh: learning notes (pbnote function)

2023-09-29 1 minute read

Learning zsh in public, pbnote function.

It’s Good to Know less

2023-09-29 3 minute read

Knowing how to use the ubiquitous shell pager “less” is an essential command line skill.

Previewing github pages with jekyll 4

2023-09-24 less than 1 minute read

Getting Ruby 3/Jekyll 4 working with this site was an ordeal. I’m exhausted but delighted.

Compiling Ruby 3 on macOS Ventura

2023-09-23 1 minute read

These are the hoops I jumped through to build Ruby on Ventura. There might be other solutions.

Dig in public (zsh) - storing and passing arguments with a variable

2023-09-19 3 minute read

This post is a walk-through of methods I used to learn how to pass arguments stored in a variable to a command.

PostgreSQL - scoping parameters in plpgsql

2023-09-19 1 minute read

Scope plpgsql parameters with qualified names, e.g. my_function.my_param.

Build In public (zsh) - bindlist v0.2

2023-09-18 less than 1 minute read

It’s beginning to feel less like a hack.

TIL (zsh) - clone a prompt theme

2023-09-17 1 minute read

Experimenting with a cloned promptinit theme.