Use Slack in the Terminal using finch (or irc)

Corporations often use the chat client by Atlassian called Slack. If you are a Slack user, there’s a chance that you might work in software development, or work on the…

Whatsapp and Telegram in a text mode user interface

If, like me, you spend a lot of time in the command line, you might find that using your social media / chat apps via the terminal might be beneficial…

How to make an SSH key for AWS Lightsail / EC2 server

The documented solution on AWS’s pages are not easy to follow, so here’s a step by step guide! NB it is assumed you have already created the user fred on…

The Top 10 Lesser Known Linux Power Commands That You Won’t Be Able to Live Without

Intro As Linux system administrators, we continuously delve into the boundless ocean of Linux commands to manage and control systems with precision. Some commands are pretty standard and widely known.…

rclone: Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, box, DropBox and much more from the CLI

I used to use insync to access my Google Drive account from the command line because it was reliable, however insync ceased support for their CLI client, so I had…

Microsoft’s Linux Distro: CBL-Mariner

Microsoft is not the company that it used to be. Steve Ballmer, the then CEO, said in June of 2001 that “Linux is a cancer” [1]. Microsoft tried for years…

Using Reddit from the console in 2020

Most of the times with reddit, I pretty much just want the text. In fact, like many of you, I work at the command line for many hours of the day, so having a reddit client that would work on the command-line, and could also format the text in a completely readable way sounds pretty slick. Fortunately there’s three (almost identical) reddit

Windows subsystem 2 available for general release in Win 10 2004

Microsoft announced that Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) will be generally available in Windows 10, version 2004. WSL2 was released into the Insider Program last year. With the move…

How to install Kanboard in Ubuntu

A kanban board is a way to visually depict work at various stages of a process using cards to represent work items and columns to represent each stage of the…

How to Run Commands on Multiple Linux Hosts Using PSSH

I’m sure you’ve heard that all the cool kids are playing with orchestration automation these days. But what about using something quick and dirty to get the job done? Pssh…