thoughts and inspiration on designing, programming, and writing for the web
Friendly reminder that you can disable Homebrew's default auto update behaviour with HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1.
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew install git-secretIf you want to set and forget the setting, add it to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc.
export HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1Sometimes you want to spin up a process, but the port it wants to bind to is already in use. Or a port isn't listening to a process as you expected. lsof is a debugging life saver in these situations.
I rediscovered jq the other day, a little command line tool to format, read, and transform JSON from the command line.
Jq falls into one of my favorite categories of tools: the "simple and do one thing good" category—the Unix philosophy at its finest.
Rsync is a command line tool to copy files between different hosts.
Zipping is easy. Remembering zip's arguments is hard.
A listing of my favorite ls features.
A short intro on my second series: Unix things I always forget!
An attempt to document the Unix commands I know and care about. Consider this series a living document that will grow organically; I won't be updating or adding new posts on a set schedule.