Happy Friday! I don’t know about you, but I’m always on the lookout for more services to try out in my home lab. I regularly check out https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted and https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/ to see what looks interesting. This past week I was wanting to host something similar to Airtable and found that there were a few decent looking options including Baserow, Grist, and NocoDB. Being a lazy man, the natural question came up: How can I try each of...
29 days ago • 4 min read
I’m not sure how long these alliterative titles are going to work. Happy Friday! If you are a regular user of git, you’ll know that the default git diff experience leaves much to be desired. It gets the job done, and it works everywhere, so I can’t really fault it. But we can do better. delta is a plug-and-play tool that instantly makes your git diffs easier to work with. It belongs to the category of tools like bat and exa that take some integral part of your workflows and just adds nice...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Happy Friday! If you’ve seen my Shell Wizardry video, you’ll know I love fzf. But in my excitement to try to use it in as many clever places as possible, I failed to notice the even more useful piece which is the shell integration. Simply add one line to the end of your shell config file and the magic begins (start a new shell to see the effects). # bash eval "$(fzf --bash)" # zsh source <(fzf --zsh) # fish fzf --fish | source Inserting files/directories into commands (ctrl+t) Whenever you’re...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Happy Friday! I’ve been big into dictation for a long time. It is great for getting your thoughts out of your head while avoiding the self-editing that often comes when writing. I use it for brainstorming, journaling, drafting, and now for instructing AI agents. However, most tools were built for Mac/iOS so it has been a struggle on Linux. I found the quite aptly named Handy (https://handy.computer) and have been using it for a while now and highly recommend it. It works beautifully on Linux,...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read