I run Apache as my main web server. There’s rarely a need to modify anything but when there is, it’s usually quite simple. That’s mainly why I never bothered to switch to nginx. Over the course of last month I had to change two things, here’s a short summary.

Sometimes you can find yourself in a situation where you need to compare two sets of data in your shell script. Until now I was unaware that rms is a co-author of the program does just that. The utility is called comm and you can probably find it in your distro’s core packages.

Sometimes we have to use Matlab at work. Whenever that’s required, it brings pain for various reasons. My team managed to solve one of them for ourselves and other coworkers. Let’s start by describing where the issue comes from.

I use Bash as my main shell and that’s probably not going to change in the forseeable future. It’s stable and widely used. And all people running their favorite shells still have Bash installed for uncompatible stuff. One of the ‘meh’ features of Bash is its built-in reverse search.

I started my first job a month ago. Until now I didn’t care about managing my configs because I had a single workstation. This has now changed and I wanted to reliably keep track of my preferences for various programs. I thought of keeping them in a git repo for easy version tracking and backup purposes. The only missing point was a mechanism to use them in a managable way since now they were kept in a separate place.