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Use bit.ly from the command line (and browser!) with no frills
Yeah, so I loathe the bit.ly redesign. I want a simple url shortener, that at least has an option without flash, or bundles, or doozits. So here’s to do it, crossplatform (mostly) with a tiny bit of...
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Sending and Recieving GVoice texts from the Command Line (uses node.js)
As many of you might know (or have guessed), I’ve taught myself most of what I know programming-wise. Which means that if it’s an API or system I’m not familiar with, I’m usually ending up cobbling...
View ArticleTraffic Control With Wondershaper While Still Letting Your LAN Speeds Stay...
Wondershaper is pretty nice and easy traffic shaping tool for linux. It’s been around for a while (and has its critics), but I find it to be a great tool. It’s so useful for a pretty straightforward...
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searchraw – a surfraw launcher for openbox
searchraw – a surfraw launcher for openbox I like surfraw. It’s a command line tool that helps you search the web quite well – but I often forget exactly how much power and utility is there. And since...
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Software: GCalCLI (and how to replace straight quotes with SED)
GoogleCL was a nice program to get quite a bit of your Google information in and out of the cloud via the commandline instead of a bloated interface. For example, I used it to pull down my agenda from...
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Playing with MPD – covers in the terminal and easy selection from the...
MPD (the Music Player Daemon) is an…interesting bit of software. Rather than being an all-in-one music player itself, it acts as a service that provides you music when you give it commands. That makes...
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Get top memory and CPU consuming commands in Linux
I was diagnosing a problem on my server the other day, and I realized that I didn’t know how much memory all the various apache processes were using up. I did some researching, and while there’s...
View ArticleA Cron Based Alarm Clock That Sucks Less
After upgrading my Debian system to Buster, I was more than a little annoyed to discover that the alarm clock applet I used no longer works. I looked around for other GUI based alarm clocks for linux...
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Automatically Shape Bandwidth On Linux
I’ve written about wondershaper before (though ignore the tweaks I mention there – wondershaper is updated and is available at GitHub) ; it’s a handy little tool that will keep any one application...
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Showdocs-Wombat: CLI Document-Focused Mailcap style utility
For something completely different, I wrote a document-centric “mailcap” style utility for the commandline, and it has a wombat in a sombrero as a mascot! Very simply, this is a document viewer type...
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