Category: Post

• February 6, 2017

  Using pv to view the progress of dd

  If you use dd for any kind of copying you’ll know how it’s not exactly forthcoming with information and it’s hard to tell if it’s doing anything. Some versions of dd have a status=progress parameter that will output progress information. Sadly this doesn’t exist on the native MacOS version. An alternative way of showing progress information…
• January 8, 2017

  Yarn

  There’s another new toy from Facebook, this time called Yarn. Here’s how it went for me: Installed yarn with brew install yarn Typed yarn in my project directory Waited a while Committed changes to git All very easy. I’ve not yet experienced any of the benefits of yarn, but that’s probably just a question of…
• January 1, 2017

  A Blog’s Weight

  As a blog gets older it seems to become harder to publish anything new. This may be a perception issue. In all likelihood it may just be my issue. As you collect followers and likes you are more aware of your audience. You find yourself filtering ideas to appeal to this audience. What was once an…