return to previous directory (quickly) in bash (or zsh)

2020-02-10

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~1 min read

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153 words

If I can quickly change directories () to anywhere in my computer’s file system, how can I go back if I mistakenly navigate away from…

know no

2020-02-09

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~2 min read

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234 words

There’s a lot I want to do. It feels like there’s always something I should or could be doing. When I feel like this, it’s helpful to…

make vs code your default editor for git commits and diffs

2020-02-08

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~2 min read

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313 words

In his talk “A Branch In Time” (which I wrote about recently in Write Better Commit Messages, Tekin Süleyman has an offhand comment that I…

what is an api?

2020-02-07

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~1 min read

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170 words

The term API is used in a huge number of situations. For people, like myself, who have not been coding for years, this can be confusing…

private fields and methods in javascript

2020-02-05

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~3 min read

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590 words

When I was first learning about Javascript (so, several months ago), I found this article from Douglas Crockford about private variables and…

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