Category: linux

  • Regex testing in test in zsh and launching a browser page

    I get so many casual mentions of ticket numbers in our discussions and I keep hacking old URLs for tickets to look them up, or clicking through JIRA boards and views to navigate to the proper ticket, only to have them pull up in a sidebar in JIRA requiring more clicks to get to a…

  • Running Linux on a Mid-2009 MacBook Pro

    [I’ve had decent luck with the iFixIt replacement batteries (Amazon affiliate link) for extending the lifespan of 3 different Macs, Linux or not] Apple and their aggressive EOL/EOS policies I have had an old mid-2009 MacBook Pro (2.26Mhz, Core 2 Duo P7550) that got left behind at macOS 10.11 (El Capitan). I’ve already gone through…

  • rush: the ruby shell

    rush. rush is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax. Grep through files, find and kill processes, copy files – everything you do in the shell, now in Ruby. Install rush If you’re running windows and have Ruby installed, go to Start->Ruby-{version}->RubyGems->RubyGems Package manager and type in “gem…