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Today I Learned: collection of notes, tips and tricks and stuff I learn from day to day working with computers and technology as an open source contributor and product manager

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Categories

ack - an alternative to grep

afplay - play audio files from the commandline on macOS

ag - also known as the Silversurfer, fast alternative to ack and grep

Bash - the Bourne Again Shell

Bootstrap - web framework for fast prototyping

Bruno - an alternative to Postman

carton - tools for handling Perl distributions and dependencies local to a project

chezmoi - dot filer manager

chrome - browser also known as chromium

clang - project for tools for building C, C++ and Objective-C

colortail - colorful variation of tail

CPAN - Perl packages and distributions repository

cpanm - a fast CPAN module installer

cpm - alternative to cpanm

crates - Rust packages

cron - schedule and repeat jobs

css - cascading style sheets, used for styling HTML

curl - a commandline tool for transferring data with URL syntax

Dash.app - an alternative browser to the built-in documentation in macOS and other resources

date - see dates and time on the command line

diff-so-fancy - a diff alternative

DigitalOcean - a hosting provider, caring about open source

Docker - containerization

DockerHub - a repository for Docker images

Dropbox - a cloud storage provider, integrates well with macOS

dzil - Dist::Zilla, a Perl distribution builder

EditorConfig - tool for generic text editor configuration

entr - run arbitrary commands when files change

exa - an alternative to the ls command

FileMerge.app - a diff tool for macOS

find - find files and directories on the command line

Git - version control system

git-delta - an commandline diff tool, also known as delta

GitHub - platform for hosting Git repositories

GitHub Actions - automate your GitHub work and repositories

GnuPG - PGP tools, GNU variant

Go - compiled programming language

grep - see also ag or ack

Hacking - No Comment

Homebrew - package manager for macOS (and Linux)

HTML - HyperText Markup Language

httpie - an alternative to curl

irssi - for all your IRC needs

iTerm.app - an alternative to Terminal.app

JavaScript - see also Node.js

Jenkins - a continuous integration server

Jira - issue tracking and project management

jq - a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor

JSON - see also XML and YAML

Kali - a Linux distribution focused on security and penetration testing

Liquid Prompt - see also Starship

macOS - see OSX

Mail.app - the default mail client on macOS

Markdown - basic markup language, great for documentation

markdownlint - a tool for linting Markdown

Mermaid - awesome tool for generating diagrams from text

Mojolicious - a Perl web framework

MySQL - a relational database

Nginx - a webserver, proxy and load-balancer

npm - Node.js package manager

OpenAPI - a specification for describing RESTful APIs, see also Swagger

OpenSSL - a toolkit for SSL and TLS

Oracle - a relational database

OSX - the operating system for Macs - now known as macOS

Perl - Swiss Army Knife of programming languages

Perlbrew - a tool for managing multiple Perl installations

Perltidy - tidy all your Perl

Postgresql - a relational database

Programming - general programming tips

Probot - a framework for building GitHub Apps

Prolog - a logic programming language

Python - an interpreted programming language

qalc - an easy to use command line calculator

Regexp - regular expressions

Renovate - a bot for automating dependency updates

rm - remove files and directories on the command line

Ruby - an interpreted programming language

Rust - a compiled programming language

sed - stream editor

Shell - general shell tips

shellcheck - a linter for shell scripts

Slack - a collaboration tool

smartcd - a tool for running commands when changing directories

Sublime Text 3 - see also VSCode

Subversion - do see Git

SQL - Structured Query Language

SQL Developer - a GUI tool for Oracle

SQLite - a lightweight relational database

sqlplus - the CLI tool for Oracle

SSH - Secure Shell

Starship - nifty prompt and an alternative to Liquid Prompt

Swagger - tool for describing RESTful APIs, see also OpenAPI

Swift - a compiled programming language from Apple

tar - a tool for archiving files

Terminal.app - do see iTerm.app

tldr - Too Long; Didn’t Read, so use tldr

tmux - an alternative to screen

tokei - language statistics - fast

Ubuntu - a Linux distribution based on Debian

ufw - Uncomplicated Firewall

VSCode / Visual Studio Code

VMware Fusion - a virtualization tool for macOS

Vue - a JavaScript framework

WSL 1/2 - Windows Subsystem for Linux

wtf util - a tool for the command line for visualising important information

XML - see also YAML and JSON

YAML - see also XML and JSON

z - for jumping around in the commandline

zsh - another shell than bash

About

I have for a long time maintained notes in a public wiki, finding the TIL of Josh Branchaud jbranchaud/til was an eye-opener and I immiediately wanted to try it out, so after a few months I have finally set it up.

I plan to migrate my earlier notes, so they are more easily accessible here as TIL snippets, this will be done when I have the time, one TIL at a time :-)

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© 2016-2022 jonasbn

This repository is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE file for details. Much is lifted from elsewhere and might by copyrighted under other licenses by the respective authors. I will mention this where applicable and I will link to original sources when and if possible.