today's howtos
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How to View Maps in Your Linux Terminal With MapSCII
Maps fuel the imagination, inspire flights of fancy, and create a yearning to travel—whether to the farthest corners of the globe or the nearest White Castle for a smorgasbord of sliders.
While it's perhaps more satisfying to pull that dusty old atlas from the top shelf of your bookcase, and it's more useful to hit up Google Maps in a browser, it's infinitely cooler to pore over cartographic excellence from the comfort of your favorite terminal emulator.
Here's how you can use MapSCII to view maps in your Linux terminal.
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httm – The Hot Tub Time Machine is Your ZFS Turn-Back-Time Method
Don’t worry. You don’t need therapy. Whenever this happens to me—and it does happen to me—I remember that I wrote a little tool called httm. Using httm helps me find my lost files much more quickly, whichmakes the associated I’m a moron feeling pass more quickly as well.
httm does lots of other cool things too, a few of which I hope I will have time to touch upon, but let’s consider The Case of The Infamous Fat Fingered Sysadmin first.
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Taxonomy is Hard
We all have data that we need to store, and then find. Regardless of type, data tends to build up. Eventually, we need some system for organizing it into sensible categories.
It turns out, this problem is harder than it seems.
In this article, I'm going to be talking about organizing digital files. However, most of the problems (and some of the solutions) also apply to paper files, spreadsheet tables, databases — and even physical objects.
Let's dig in.
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People like file extensions whether or not they're necessary
In some circles, it's popular to denigrate file extensions as a Windows-ism that's only necessary because of (historical) limitations of that platform. However, we have a fair amount of evidence that people like file extensions even on platforms where they aren't necessary, and adopt them by choice in various circumstances even without technical need.
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How to create a React search bar a step-by-step guide
In the past 5 years, people have searched for React a lot on Google compared to Vue.js or Angular. In addition to that, the state of JS survey result of 2021 puts React as the most used JavaScript framework for the past 6 years. It is also the one with the most awareness among software engineers for 3 years in a row since 2019.
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How to control a robot over Wi-Fi with Pico W
That’s the top thing about our Raspberry Pi Pico W microcontroller: it comes with a fully certified module on board featuring 2.4GHz 802.11n wireless LAN, making it the perfect solution for projects requiring wireless communication, like this one.