Quick tips are notes or ideas I want to keep track of. The posts are generally short.
Open Source Software Concepts
There are plenty of material out in the web-o-sphere to determine what is using which network port. I thought I'd take a command I recently used and break it down in order to help newer Linux Admins/Users understand the command and structure. I used: sudo lsof -i -P -n
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This presentation from DevOpsDays Chicago 2016 presented by Angela Dugan explores "Imposter Syndrome". The feeling of being under-qualified for a task or set of responsibilities.
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I recently learned something while going through the puppet tutorial VM and I want to share it and document it to remind myself in the future. You may know that you create directories on the Linux Command Line (CLI) with: mkdir new-dir While I'm not yet sure how wide spread
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Solving an error with GitKraken after install from the PPA
Open Source Software
Bit masks are a computer science concept; in a nutshell, they represent options which can be combined in a variety of ways. A very basic example colors. Blue and Green combined create yellow. This can be represented in bit masks. The following example is sourced from the Bit field article
Open Source Software
In most established open source projects, you should find some sort of information regarding contributing to that given project. This could be called contribute.md or CONTRIBUTING.md or is simply a section in the repository's Readme file. If you intend to contribute to a specific open source project, ensure
Tools of Open Source
I found myself in a situation where I needed to list all of the global npm packages I had installed on a (windows) server. The command, it turned out, was quite simple: npm ls --global npm ls itself will list the packages installed locally which can be helpful unto itself.