The ls command is one of the most fundamental commands that you’ll use when using the Linux terminal. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a command that you’re going to use all the time when you want to see the contents of a directory, whether that be subdirectories or…

This one trick can save you hundreds of hours throughout the course of your programming. Sure, that sounds like the text on an invasive advertisement on your favorite website, but honestly, at least in my case, it’s shaping up to be true. Limiting the usage of your mouse while you’re…

Buildkite is a wonderful platform for you to “run fast, secure, and scalable continuous integration pipelines on your own infrastructure,” according to its own website and also according to me, who has been using it in production for over a year. In addition to the above advantages, one of the…

If you’re reading this, then you probably know what kubectl is, and you probably know what kubectl get does. …But if you don’t, kubectl is a Kubernetes command-line tool that allows you to run various commands against Kubernetes clusters. One of those commands is kubectl get, which allows you to…

Uh oh. You did a git add on a file or directory before you committed and pushed to a branch. It shows up as green (most likely, but I know some of you have some whacky terminal themes), and the simple fact of the matter is that you just don’t…

It’s a somewhat common thing to check what version of Python that your system is using. You may want to know, for example, if you’re using Python 2 or 3. There’s a pretty fundamental difference there, so it’s important to know and be able to check. Even within that, you…

If you’ve used Golang or have at least heard of it, then you’ve very likely seen this little creature around: This mascot is virtually synonymous with the actual programming language, and it’s probably the best animal mascot for something in software engineering since the Linux penguin, Tux:

Curious how many commits your branch has? One way of doing this is to go into your UI, whether that be Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, or some other Git provider, and navigate to find out how many commits there are for your branch. If you want a different and arguable quicker…

If you’ve seen Bash scripts before, you might have come across set -e. It could look a little something like this: #!/bin/bash set -e city="Hawkins" state="Indiana" echo "I live in $city, $state." What does that even mean? Well, first of all, let’s go over set. set is a command that…