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2026

Jun 02 Use "genisoimage -J -o" to create ISOs for use in VMs
May 28 Handbrake profile for ripping DVDs that play on Roku without transcoding
May 13 Creating SMB shares writable from iOS devices using a magical incantation
May 05 Remotely configuring NixOS-based Proxmox containers
May 04 Use Ctrl+a, x to stop QEMU emulation
May 03 Nix can produce static binaries using "pkgsStatic"
Apr 16 Win32 C library can support UTF-8 file names using a manifest
Apr 06 Use Ctrl+V, Tab to insert a literal tab character
Mar 31 Emacs can order completions by column!
Mar 28 Use "git diff --word-diff" for inline diffs
Mar 21 Highlighting matches in grep piped to less
Mar 20 Linux Mint Cinnamon fractional scaling breaks Steam Overlay
Mar 10 Blinking EVGA logo on power supply implies short-circuit
Feb 13 Use "GO386=softfloat" to compile Go for Pentium
Jan 18 Use "desat" option to tweak HDR-to-SDR in Handbrake

2025

Dec 29 Use "sh -c" to supply multiple commands to "entr"
Dec 28 Use "background=dark" in Vim
Dec 06 Busybox includes a DHCP server ("udhcpd")
Dec 01 FFmpeg can be used for batch lossless video cutting
Nov 30 Use "find -exec" instead of "xargs"
Nov 29 Use Ctrl+p, Ctrl+q to detach from containers
Oct 29 Use "socat" for temporarily forwarding ports
Oct 01 OpenSuperClone can clone failing rotational hard disks
Sep 05 Use Shift+F10 to open a command prompt during Windows 11 setup
Aug 27 Use FTP's "passive" mode when behind NAT
Aug 22 retro-aim-server lets you use AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, etc.
Jul 14 FidoNet was a network of bulletin board systems
Jul 08 Use "color-mix()" for computing colors in CSS
Jul 06 Use "display: table" to render non-table HTML elements like tables
Jun 27 Use ImageMagick's "mogrify" tool for converting iPhone photos to JPEG
Jun 26 Use "--transform" to put files into subdirectory of a tarball
Jun 13 Use BackstopJS to graphically compare HTML files
Jun 12 Use ":read !" to insert the result of a shell command in Vim
Jun 11 Use "VPATH" and ".PATH" for compiling subdirectory source files in Make
Jun 08 Git commits have both an author and a committer
Jun 06 Kolmogorov Complexity
May 31 Get the path of commands using "realpath" and "which"
May 28 Use "exuberant-ctags" for "go to definition" in Vim
May 27 GDB has a built-in TUI mode with single key operation
May 25 Difference between Vim's tabstop, softtabstop, and shiftwidth
May 23 Early C only used the first few characters of function names
May 22 Safari default styles finally support dark mode
May 21 Kill unresponsive SSH sessions with "Enter, ~, ."
May 20 Use "ssh-keygen -lf" to view SSH server fingerprint before connecting
May 19 Use ":terminal" in Vim for a better integrated terminal
May 18 Use "!" to invert criteria in the "find" command
May 17 Automatically wrapping lines in Vim and Emacs
May 16 Use ":set paste" when pasting into Vim

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