Most people use AI coding agents backwards. They hand the agent a problem and ask it to solve the whole thing. The agent reads, reasons, generates, and hopes for the best. There’s a better way. One that’s cheaper, more predictable, and already well understood. It’s the Unix philosophy, applied to...

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Homebrew is a the missing package manager for Mac OS. Brew cask extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to Mac OS applications and large binaries alike. If you’re using these tools and would like to upgrade all of the applications you have, run the following command. brew...

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PowerShell is one of Windows’ most underused tools in my opinion. In many cases it rivals if not betters support that bash scripts provide. If you want to remove the extension of a file (say removing ‘!ut’ from file names), it’s a simple one line command. dir *.!ut | rename-item...

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Has anyone ever shared with you hundreds of Google Drive files instead of sharing the directory? It happened to me today and I noticed Gmail clips the HTML part of the message at 102 KB. Usually Gmail provides a way to download all attachments (Google Drive or otherwise) or the ability...

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Once you get used to the JetBrains suite of IDEs pressing Cmd/Ctrl+W for expanding selection becomes second nature. This leads to closing tabs on most applications such as text editors which is of little consequence since you can train yourself to use a different short cut. My favourite text editor (Sublime Text) does...

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I recently found Desktoppr, a service which has an insane number of curated wallpapers. What’s even better is that they come with an easy to consume API. To fulfil my insatiable need for good high resolution wallpapers, I wrote a script to go through the thousands of pages of images...

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I noticed that my old file list generator page didn’t have a valid link any more. Since I’d go through and upload it again, I guess it would be worth it to add some minor documentation and make the path variable optional as well :) Here are some sample scripts...

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This is something one might need to do regularly. I need to because wget often creates multiple index.html@* files despite being set up not to (my GUI for wget might forget configs.. who knows?) I’m left with a couple of hundred folders with 6 html files each which to me...

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A problem I’ve faced quite a few times is having a folder full of files with a padded extension that needs to be removed before I can use the files. This can happen with .tmp, .bak, or other temporary extensions added by various applications. It’s easy to rename all files...

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On a lazy Sunday afternoon when you’ve got nothing better to do, you either write rather useless scripts or update them. I chose to do the latter. The file list generation script I wrote some time back was mainly to generate a list of movies I have. When I generated...

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I have a whole load of movies that I’d like to generate a list of. I considered writing a batch script but it didn’t really do something I needed. I ended up writing my first regular use (non test) PowerScript and here’s how. My first requirement was to list all...

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The Windows key might have started as something a tad bit redundant (considering Ctrl+Esc does the same thing) but the Windows Key is so much more. I have already spoken about the Win+(1-9) to activate programs in Vista’s Quick Launch Toolbar and its transition to taskbar applications in Windows 7....

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Custom Search Engine Right click the address bar and click Edit search engine. Click add, fill in a name and a keyword followed by the search query. For adding the Messenger Plus Forum Search engine I used the name as “Messenger Plus! Forum Search” (doesn’t really matter what you use...

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Ever wanted to send a quick email but then though, “nah.. cba to open my inbox right now”? Now you can send emails via command line! It doesn’t have to be installed though you could do so if you please. I give you Blat! Here is a simple example from...

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There is a Plus! scripting competition going on that the entire community knows about. With t-shirts for all participants, there have been over 70 entries in 3 weeks. There are only 4 days to go so despite my exams, here is my shot at the competition. I don’t want to...

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