Behind the Terminal
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Why I made my portfolio feel like a terminal, and how it works
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A global DNS propagation checker on your CLI
Here's a handy CLI tool to check if your domain resolves to the expected IP address worldwide.
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A bash function to run tests for both PHPUnit and Pest
I've used this little bash alias for many years to quickly run the tests inside of a project.
alias p="vendor/bin/phpunit"
With this alias in place, I can run the tests by typing "p" on the CLI. Nice!
For a long time, everything was great! But then, Pest appeared on the scene. It's an alternative test runner for PHP with a high focus on developer experience.
How to clean up your local git branches
What happens to all of those local branches after the pull request has been merged and deleted on Github?
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Some Relatively Obscure Bash Tips
Here are some Bash tips that are relatively obscure, or rarely seen, but still worth knowing about.
Read more [zwischenzugs.com]
Run and stop multiple long-running commands from Bash with a trap
Liam Hammett explains how you can use the trap command to stop multiple bash process in one go.
Sometimes when working on a project, I’ll always want to run a handful of commands at the same time, some of which may return when they’re done, others might be long-running, like watchers or services actively exposing ports. This is something that might seem simple to do with a basic Bash script at first, but what if your script has multiple processes running side-by-side and you want to be able to stop them all at once too?
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Bash/Shell Autocompletion for Composer
Bram Van Damme explains how you can get autocompletion for most composer commands.
Read more [www.bram.us]
Get the exit code in a series of pipes in Bash
TIL: $PIPESTATUS lets you access the exit code of a command used in a series of pipes in Bash pic.twitter.com/eRVrPQwnve
— Mattias Geniar (@mattiasgeniar) January 2, 2019
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OCR in your terminal
?shell tip?
— Travis Northcutt (@tnorthcutt) September 6, 2018
brew install tesseract
alias ocr='screencapture -i ~/tmp/screenshot.png && tesseract ~/tmp/screenshot.png stdout | pbcopy && rm -f ~/tmp/screenshot.png'
Then, run `ocr` in your terminal, select text in an image, and...
✨it's copied to your clipboard ✨ pic.twitter.com/KEsiDasu8l
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Replacing standard CLI tools with better ones
Remy Sharp, a well known JavaScript developer, published a cool list of standard CLI tools replacements.
I'm not sure many web developers can get away without visiting the command line. As for me, I've been using the command line since 1997, first at university when I felt both super cool l33t-hacker and simultaneously utterly out of my depth. Over the years my command line habits have improved and I often search for smarter tools for the jobs I commonly do. With that said, here's my current list of improved CLI tools.
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Spot, a little grep-like user friendly search utility
Last week I stumbled upon this little search utility called Spot, by Guillermo Rauch of Zeit.
- Short & written in Bash: you can edit it easily to suit your liking.
- Fast. Just find + grep + awk.
- Searches most things by default instead of some known predefined extensions.
- Ignores .git, .hg, .svn, devices and binary files.
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A modern text-based web browser in your terminal
Browsh is a small browser that you can run inside your terminal. If you don't want to install it locally, you can test is out by ssh'ing to it.
ssh brow.sh
Here's a screenshot of the https://www.brow.sh/ running in Browsh.
How cool is that! I don't see myself using this as my main browser soon, but it sure is a pretty cool project. It goes without saying that you should not type any sensitive data while using it via ssh.
iTerm2 leaks everything you hover in your terminal via DNS requests
iTerm2, a populair terminal app, contained a very bad security issue. Everything you hover over was being checked if it was a clickable url. To determine if it's a valid url, the hovered over string was being checked against DNS server. So if you hover over a password, or a secret key or whatever it sent out to the internet. Obviously this is a big problem. It's fixed in the latest version. So if you use iTerm2 and haven't updated it recently, be sure to do it now! The problem is fixed in version 3.1.1.
iTerm2's leak issue was first discovered ten months ago. iTerm2's creator initially reacted by adding an option to iTerm 3.0.13 that allowed users to disable DNS lookups. The feature remained turned on by default for new and existing installations.Dutch developer Peter van Dijk, software engineer for PowerDNS, a supplier of open-source DNS software and DNS management service, re-reported this feature and this time around, he pointed out some of the severe privacy leaks not included in the first bug report.
"iTerm sent various things (including passwords) in plain text to my ISP's DNS server," van Dijk wrote flabbergasted in a bug report he filed earlier today.
This time around, George Nachman, iTerm2's maintainer, understood the severity of the issue right away and released iTerm2 3.1.1 to fix the problem within hours. He also apologized for enabling this feature by default without analyzing possible consequences in more depth.
How to hide the "Last Login" line on the terminal
One of the first things I do after a fresh setup. That annoyed me for the /longest/ time. pic.twitter.com/j9LvzbMQQd
— Jaggy ? (@jaggygauran) August 31, 2017
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gtop: a system monitoring dashboard for terminal
To view some real time statistics of your server you use top or htop. But there's a new new kid on the block: gtop. It looks pretty nice.
Make git work better with GitHub
A few months ago I installed a command line utility called hub. I'm really fond of it. It's aim is to make it easier to interact with GitHub from the commandline. It's a wrapper around the standard git command. Once it's installed you can do stuff like this (take from the manual page) # clone your…
Quickly open a GitHub page from your terminal
At Spatie we use GitHub for both our client projects as our open source code. So in our day to day work we often have to open the browser to view issues of a repo or review pull requests.
Paul Irish, a well known developer and part of the Google Chrome team at Google, made a nice bash script to quickly open up a GitHub page from your terminal. If you're on a path inside a git repo and type "git open" that'll open up the corresponding page on GitHub.
The command also supports, amongst others, repos hosted on GitLab.com and Bitbucket.
Upgrading to PHP 7.1 is easy
PHP 7.1 was released last week. It has many nice new features. If you're anything like me, you want to use the latest version right way. Upgrading to PHP 7.1 is not that difficult. Personally I use homebrew. The steps required to upgrade from 7.0 are laughably simple. Just issue this command in your…
Get the weather report in your terminal
Here's something fun, you can get a weather report right in your terminal. For my hometown Antwerp I excecute this command curl http://wttr.in/antwerp to see this:
A better dd() for your TDD
On the Tighten blog Keith Damiani wrote an article how you can mold the dd helper to your liking.
An important part of every Laravel developer's debugging arsenal is the humble dd() helper function—"dump and die"—to output the contents of a variable and terminate execution of your code. In the browser, dd() results in a structured, easy-to-read tree, complete with little arrow buttons that can be clicked to expand or hide children of nested structures. In the terminal, however, it's a different story. ... Fortunately, it's simple to build your very own customized version of dd() to help tame your unwieldly terminal output.