I’ve been using GNU screen for years now as a way to deal with all the terminals I need to use at once (terminal multiplexing is what I talk to my wife about when I know she doesn’t want to hear about work). I started out using it, as many do, because I needed to [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write this post forever, but once I started doing what I suggest here it seemed so obvious that I have trouble remembering what life was like before I did it. Once you’ve been working in a terminal for long enough, you realize how much more productive you can be with your [...]

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Keeping track of passwords has been a pain – until I found Passpack.  Passpack is a free, online password manager that I’ve been using for over a year now to keep track of most of my passwords. Security Storing passwords online might set of some security warning bells in your head since you’ll have all [...]

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I’ve been working on more and more computers lately, and I was getting tired of my favorite bash and editor shortcuts not being available between the different machines. I finally took some good advice I heard a while back and put my config files under source control, and it’s been one of the best tips [...]

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