Discovering Plain Text Accounting I’ve always found finance management and budgeting difficult. I don’t enjoy spreadsheets, I’ve never used Excel properly, and most budget tools felt either too simplistic or too complicated. When I started building my house, this weakness became a real problem. I had to keep track of large expenses, plan ahead, and make sure I didn’t overspend. So I started looking for a tool that could help me do that. Read more

TIL about nb which is a command line and local web note-taking, bookmarking, archiving, knowledge base application. It is written in bash and even has a Go implementation.

Awesome blog post explaining how the syntax of Unix command line has varied over the years, and in different subcultures.

Commands for moving Ctrl + a: move to the beginning of line Ctrl + e: move to end of line Ctrl + f: Move forward a character Ctrl + b: Move back a character Alt + f: Move forward to the end of the next word Alt + b: Move back to the start of the current of previsous word Commands for Manipulating the History Ctrl + n: Fetch the next command form the history list (same as Down arrow) Ctrl + p: Fetch the previous command form the history list (same as Up arrow) Alt + <: Move to the first line in the history ALt + >: Move to the end of the input history ( the line currently bein entered) Ctrl + r: begins a backward search through command history Alt + p: Search backward through the history using a non-incremental search for a string supplied by the usser Alt + n: Search forward through the history using a non-incremental search for a string supplied by the usser Alt + . Read more

In the Beginning.. Was the Command Line. - Neal Stephenson. A dark screen with a blinking cursor. With a few keystrokes, you can hack the world. On the command line, you must know what you are doing. With a GUI, you can guess. You can guess a lot, actually, and just poke around all you want because most GUIs come with an undo feature. There is no “undo” on the command line. Read more