Frequently I need to execute a fairly long running task, such as unpacking a large tar file or running a long build.  I want to get feedback on the progress of the task, but I don’t necessarily want to fill my terminal window with lots of superfluous text by using the verbose output option.  Not [...]

This is the first post in what will be an intermittent, but ongoing series called “The Hall of Awesome.” I plan to use this space to honor people and things which I think are particularly excellent.
The first inductee is the Lua programing language. Lua is a lightweight, fast, powerful scripting language designed to [...]

It is mildly irritating that ctrl-w means “paste” in emacs, but it means “close window” in virtually any other application, or in Firefox, “close tab.”