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114 from 18 Aug 2013 to 17 Dec 2025
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now and then (1 in the last year)
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2025 7

  1. The Best Books I Read in 2025
  2. How to Write Self-Contained AWK Scripts
  3. How to Cut a Rectangle into 3, without a Ruler
  4. How to Surround Text in Vim, Without Plugins
  5. Software I like: LocalSend
  6. When to use "cat -n" instead of "wc -l"
  7. How to get Elixir logging with recon_trace

2024 9

  1. The Best Books I Read in 2024
  2. Screenshot Smarter, with macOS
  3. Fixing tmux for 256 colors
  4. Using Shell Functions Casually
  5. A Table-Driven Test Template for Elixir
  6. When ctrl-c Is Not Enough
  7. More psql Tips and Tricks
  8. Using recon_trace with Elixir
  9. Gleam Support in Vim with ALE

2023 9

  1. The Best Books I Read in 2023
  2. psql Tips and Tricks
  3. Data Analysis: Strange Loop 2023 Videos
  4. entr: The Standalone File Watcher
  5. Reduce Anti-Patterns
  6. Reduce is Not the Answer
  7. How to Export Excel Formulas to CSV
  8. INNER JOIN Files on the Command-Line
  9. Livebook: Getting Started

2022 9

  1. The Best Books I Read in 2022
  2. ding: Audio Feedback for Exit Codes
  3. Understanding Overlap: in 1 or 2 dimensions
  4. Serious Talk: Environment Variables
  5. Trying vim-slime in Docker
  6. The World Changes Around Your Code
  7. Parsing and Validating Dates in Awk
  8. Stop Typing Into REPLs
  9. Fish Shell is Awesome

2021 9

  1. The Best Books I Read in 2021
  2. Reading Raw Text into jq
  3. Software I like: Chrome Coverage Tab
  4. Elixir Notes: Module Names and File Names Mismatch
  5. Elixir Notes: Mix Tasks and @shortdoc
  6. Life After KeyCode
  7. Rebase a Tmux Session
  8. cd.. Until .git Directory
  9. Goodbye Git Master Branch

2020 9

  1. The Best Books I Read in 2020
  2. Which Package Name for Go Tests?
  3. Software I like: Skitch
  4. Chrome Extension: Click to Remove Element
  5. First Look at Zsh
  6. Dealing with Non-ASCII Characters
  7. Better Directory Handling in Bash
  8. Git: How to Find Modified Files on a Branch
  9. Comments on the Command-Line

2019 10

  1. The Best Books I Read in 2019
  2. What Exec Does in Shell Scripts
  3. Up your Go Game with golangci-lint
  4. QR Codes on the Command-Line
  5. One-liners to Remove Empty Lines from Text Files
  6. Go Slice Gotcha
  7. Watch ANY Video Faster
  8. tmux Synchronized Panes
  9. Automatically Show Exit Codes in Bash
  10. Dealing with Large Files in Vim

2018 9

  1. The Best Books I Read in 2018
  2. The Family Emoji
  3. JavaScript tooling: prettier
  4. JavaScript tooling: madge
  5. Surviving Unfamiliar JavaScript Projects: dependencies
  6. Surviving Unfamiliar JavaScript Projects: package.json
  7. 8 Years of Reading, Visualized
  8. Mocha and Istanbul in 5 minutes
  9. ISO 8601 and Date Arithmetic on the Command-Line

2017 9

  1. The Best Books I Read in 2017
  2. Throwaway MySQL Servers with Docker
  3. Reject Summary Statistics
  4. Bash Aliases, Functions and Commands
  5. SKIP grep, use AWK
  6. From iptables to UFW: 5 things to note
  7. Handling Broken JSON with jq
  8. Problem Solving with MiniZinc
  9. Get Your Last Downloaded File

2016 9

  1. Untangling Your Homebrew Dependencies
  2. The Best Books I Read in 2016
  3. 10 Pages a Day
  4. My Best Awk Tricks
  5. Awk Tutorial, part 3
  6. Awk Tutorial, part 2
  7. Awk Tutorial, part 1
  8. Why Learn AWK?
  9. The Partition Problem

2015 7

  1. The Best Books I Read in 2015
  2. Sending HTML to Mailgun with cURL
  3. How To Shuffle and Sample on the Command-Line
  4. Wrapping Command-Line Tools
  5. Statistics: How Many Would You Check?
  6. Inverse Globbing
  7. Watch YouTube Faster

2014 10

  1. How to Have the Last Word (on the command-line)
  2. type -a
  3. One-liner Bash Functions
  4. Warp
  5. Unsorted uniq
  6. Bookpiles is Kanban for Books
  7. Splitting A File Based On Its Content
  8. Alternative to sort | uniq -c
  9. The bash-completion Problem
  10. which -a versus whereis

2013 8

  1. grep -f
  2. Comparing Command-Line JSON Pretty Printers
  3. Grep and Output Buffering
  4. Bookmarklet: Toggle Ruby
  5. Garbage Collected Directories
  6. Software I like: ImageOptim
  7. How to Configure Syntastic
  8. New blog