Building a random text generator
Generate your own random placeholder text by writing a few lines in Bash.
Making FORTRAN 77 easier to read
If you’re getting started with FORTRAN, add this pretty printer to your programming toolkit.
3 ways to write bugs with FORTRAN 77
Explore old-style FORTRAN programming with Arithmetic IF, Computed GOTO, and Assigned GOTO.
Do I have enough space for that?
A little scripting goes a long way to make sure you won’t run out of space with an automated process.
I need a list of URLs
I used the command line to do in seconds what would have needed more than ten minutes to do by hand.
How to remove a stuck kernel from GRUB
Here’s how to fix the GRUB menu configuration from the command line.
How to selectively apply updates
Here’s how I selectively apply updates, excluding any kernel packages.
Straight quotes from pandoc
Change pandoc’s curly quotes into straight quotes with this script.
Viewing PDF documents in console mode
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 that’s sat unused for the last few years. I used to run the Raspberry Pi as a personal “home...
Loving the command line with the Raspberry Pi
I’m going to show my age when I share that my first Unix system was a Sun 3/50 workstation in our campus computer lab, when...
Writing with open source tools
Aside from my other work, I also teach a few university courses about technical writing. One class I like to teach is about writing with...