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Tutorial - Write a Shell in C
16 January 2015
It’s easy to view yourself as “not a real programmer.” There are programs out there that everyone uses, and it’s easy to put their developers on a pedestal. Although developing large software projects isn’t easy, many times the basic idea of that software is quite simple. Implementing it yourself is a fun way to show that you have what it takes to be a real programmer. So, this is a walkthrough on how I wrote my own simplistic Unix shell in C, in the hopes that it makes other people feel that way too.
Read moreWhy I Switched to KDE
12 December 2014
… and why I don’t think I’ll switch back.
Read moreInteracting With X Clipboard in Bash
03 August 2014
I ran across this neat trick a couple days ago. I was looking for a way to copy
command output from my terminal, rather than using the clumsy selection
capabilities in my terminal emulator du jour. I hit
this Stack
Overflow article, which introduced me to xclip, a program that lets you
interface with X ‘selections’.
These selections are basically text buffers in the X window system. The
clipboard is one of them (the CLIPBOARD selection), and so is any text you
highlight (the PRIMARY selection). The xclip program lets you use those
buffers as the source or destination of a pipeline!
Hello, World!
02 August 2014
Hello, everyone! This is the inaugural post on the blog for my new personal website. This blog isn’t intended to be a frequently updated chronicle of my life, or filled with memes and cat pictures. You can expect it to contain my occasional thoughts on computer topics, posts about my personal programming projects, and also any neat tips and tricks I feel worthy of sharing with the world. I hope everyone enjoys it. Please let me know what you think in the comments!
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