today's howtos
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How to Use Vim Shortcuts to Navigate Your Web Browser - Make Tech Easier
While Vim is a text editor designed to be used just by using keyboard shortcuts, browser extensions like Vimium let you navigate the web using similar keybindings without ever touching the mouse. Using Vim shortcuts on your browser can help you get things done faster and more efficiently. In this article, I will show you how to use and configure Vimium on your favorite browser.
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How to Set Permissions for New Files on Linux With umask
If you've used Linux for any length of time, you'd know how important Linux file permissions are. But what about permissions for when you create new files? A utility called umask lets you set default file permissions for new files on Linux.
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Local HTTP Proxy Server – No Proxy Host Regex – Split Destination Client Connection – Jon's FOSS Blog
No usage documentation, however, posting this for historical purposes...
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How To Install Nano Text Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Nano Text Editor on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. For those of you who didn’t know, GNU nano is a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface. It is a very beginner-friendly text editor, which is why it is most preferred by newbies. However, despite being a simple text editor, it can still work well for text and source code editing.
This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you the step-by-step installation of GNU nano on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). You can follow the same instructions for Ubuntu 22.04 and any other Debian-based distribution like Linux Mint, Elementary OS, Pop!_OS, and more as well.