ls alternatives
ls alternatives
· โ˜• 3 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
ls is one of most used command, it is very plain though. Lets make it interesting.

Data Processing with sed
· โ˜• 3 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
GNU Core utils are powerful and fast. Let’s see an example.

Consistent Prompt With Starship
Consistent Prompt With Starship
· โ˜• 2 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
Shell prompt customization is tideous and non-portable. starship to the rescue!

F-Droid, alternate app store for android
F-Droid, alternate app store for android
· โ˜• 3 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
F-Droid makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

Save time with pre-commit
Save time with pre-commit
· โ˜• 2 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. Let’s use it

reading gmail mails with emacs
reading gmail mails with emacs
· โ˜• 3 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
mu is a tool for dealing with e-mail messages stored in the Maildir-format, on Unix-like systems. mu includes an emacs-based e-mail client (mu4e)

Own Your Router Part-2
Own Your Router Part-2
· โ˜• 2 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
Here is the promised part 2 for the post, own your router. Let’s upgrade OpenWrt firmware.

blocking ads With Pi-hole
blocking ads With Pi-hole
· โ˜• 4 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
The Pi-holeยฎ is a DNS sinkhole that protects your devices from unwanted content, without installing any client-side software

Own Your Router
Own Your Router
· โ˜• 4 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
I was always curious what OS does my router have. I knew it runs on some stripped down version of Linux, but can I change it? tinker with it? the answer is yes.

keeping track of projects that matter
keeping track of projects that matter
· โ˜• 2 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
NewReleases is a simple service to get notifications about new version releases from many programming platforms, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Python PyPI, Node.js NPM and Yarn, Java Maven, Ruby Gems, PHP Packagist, .NET NuGet, Rust Cargo, Docker Hub, SourceForge, Debian GitLab, Freedesktop GitLab, Gnome Gitlab and KDE GitLab.

Postman to Insomnia
Postman to Insomnia
· โ˜• 3 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
I was a happy postman user for over 3 years. Even before it was a standalone app, worked fine for me. For those who don’t know what is postman, it is rest client. Few months back I discovered its syncing feature. I was very excited and jumped on the band wagon, This is where the problem(s) start.

GCP VM SSH problem and solution
· โ˜• 4 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
It was just another day at work. I was working on just another task in my everyday routine. I was required to login to a VM buts things don’t go as per the plan

Eliminating Duplicate Lines
· โ˜• 2 min read · โœ๏ธ Syed Dawood
One of the common problems when working with plain text is duplicate lines. They are bad and in most of the cases we would like to get rid of them. Here I present to you the simple solution(s) to address this problem