I am no shell scripting expert, but I have written a lot of bash code in my day. Most of my shell scripting know-how has come from trial-and-error and desperate googling. This has (slowly) taught me a few nifty tricks and some of the more interesting details of how bash actually “works” (for lack of […]

I have become the de-facto neighborhood tech support geek. Huh, you ask? Well, combine a pretty face with a bit of computer hackery know-how, and what do you expect? During the course of regular Windows tech support adventures, I have accidentally observed an interesting trend ever since our friends in Redmond gave us Windows Vista. […]

I have the best bash prompt ever. It took a lot of hacking and googling, but here she is: Notice that the smiley face and text colors change depending on the exit code of the last run command (red = failed, green = happy). This is handy, for example, after a big long build that […]