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Dock Life: Using Docker for All The Things!

Embracing Docker for All The Things gives you a more flexible, robust, and transportable way to use tools on your computer without messy setup

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Tip: Shell Brace Expansion

Those who know me — I think — would say not say I am lazy. In particular, I have nary an interest in code golf and usually consider it actively harmful. That said, shells provide a number of capabilities that are both clear and compact for expressing complex operations.1 One of my daily favorites is brace expansion which can be done by forming an expression with { and } in the shell. A simple demonstration of it speaks volumes:

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Shells

What's a shell, what does it do, why would we need that? A shell is a program that acts as an intermediary between the user and the operating system, the kernel. It lets you execute commands on a computer. Specifically, on Unix, the shell is a command-line interface, a prompt that waits for commands entered by the user, interpret and exe...

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Programmers, Don't Use Windows!

Windows turns programmers into mouse operators. macOS, built on Unix, keeps the command line alive—where everything is a file, tools connect through pipelines, and real programmers stay in control.

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