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by pforret 6y ago
I’m really interested in fig. I develop lots of bash scripts and I would love to see how new scripts can also from fig autocompletion.
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by pforret 6y ago
It’s not that dramatic. The max TBW on those drives is actually much higher. https://blog.forret.com/apple/2021/02/22/ssd-wear-on-apple-s...
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by pforret 6y ago
Pure bash is indeed a good choice for this kind of application. I developed something similar, with some more functionality (and definitely more LoC :-) ) https://github.com/pforret/note
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by pforret 6y ago
For each country in the world, take the top result in Unsplash search. From predictable (Eiffel Tower! Sydney Opera!) over the unpredictable (Hungary's soldiers, a distant moon for Libya) to the absurd (a camera for Afghanistan, a mobi
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Every country in the world in 1 (Unsplash) photo(blog.forret.com)
1 points by pforret 6y ago|1 comments
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by pforret 6y ago
Hi, I took the liberty of putting your code and the remarks here in a pretty wrapper: https://github.com/pforret/remac In short: "remac -p ibm set" will set your MAC address to a new MAC adress with an "
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by pforret 6y ago
Created a bash script to check existing keys, create new more secure key, protect existing keys with password. https://github.com/pforret/bumpkeys
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Creating image reveal videos with ffmpeg and primitive(blog.forret.com)
4 points by pforret 6y ago|0 comments
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by pforret 6y ago
inspired by "Learn Go in 5mins", "half-hour to learn Rust" and "Zig in 30 minutes" A quick overview of the most mature and cross-platform scripting tool too many people don't know about: Bash scripting, in
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Learn Bash scripting in 27 minutes(github.com)
3 points by pforret 6y ago|1 comments
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by pforret 6y ago
I created a benchmark based on ffmpeg/primitive (CPU-bound) to compare my Mac Mini M1 to my MacBook Pro-2013 and Dell XPS15-2017 (both i7 - 16GB). The M1 is up to 5 times faster than my MBP and up to 2 times faster than the Dell. The G
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Running a CPU Benchmark on Apple Silicon M1(blog.forret.com)
2 points by pforret 6y ago|1 comments
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Show HN: Install Homebrew (native) on Apple M1 (bash 1-liner)(github.com)
1 points by pforret 6y ago|1 comments
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by pforret 6y ago
I just got my Mac Mini M1 and wanted to run Homebrew in native mode to be able to do CLI benchmark comparison. I put everything I learned about that process in an easy bash script that can be run in a 'curl | bash' line. It takes
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by pforret 6y ago
Bash allows you to [TAB] into a folder because the program/script you want to execute might be there, just 1 or more [TAB]s further. It's not bash's fault that you try to do something that doesn't make any sense. De[TAB]
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by pforret 6y ago
I had a similar idea recently after hearing a CIO say that there was only 1 (one) corporate credit card in his 1000+ employees company, and it was the CEO's. For him, SaaS on a credit card was a no-go, it needed to be a monthly invoice
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by pforret 6y ago
TL;DR version: splashmark [lots of options] search dolphin.jpg dolphin will get a dolphin picture from Unsplash, resize and crop it, add EXIF tags, apply some filters, print attribution and title on the image and save it as 'dolphin.jp
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Show HN: Splashmark – easy Unsplash image markup on the command line(github.com)
2 points by pforret 6y ago|1 comments
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by pforret 6y ago
Most blog software have RSS built in, so that's not where you would see the death of RSS. These sites don't have RSS (anymore): News publications: Bloomberg, Economist, Forbes, TechRadar ... Communities: Indiehackers, dev.to They
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by pforret 6y ago
a list of console-targeted web services, for location, weather, qrcode, bandwidth, file publish, exchange rates -- for use in the terminal or in a bash script
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Web Services in the Console(blog.forret.com)
1 points by pforret 6y ago|1 comments
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by pforret 7y ago
" So I will educate any Chinese visitors on this domestic humanitarian issue, probably soon get banned by the Great Chinese Firewall, and as such also improve my website’s security, since I will be banned for Chinese hackers too. &quot
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Educating the Chinese for Security(blog.forret.com)
2 points by pforret 7y ago|1 comments
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by pforret 8y ago
for people who often write bash scripts (Linux/MacOS): a quick boilerplate generator to get started swiftly, with option parsing and plenty of built-in helper functions
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Show HN: Make your customised bash boilerplate code(toolstud.io)
3 points by pforret 8y ago|1 comments
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DIY project: my 1.5TB bamboo USB SSD disk bay(blog.forret.com)
2 points by pforret 10y ago|0 comments