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Plugins for tmux

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200

I’m a big fan of tmux since I started using it back in 2010. I can’t conceive working on a terminal window without it, and I also use it in remote systems I access via SSH.

Share Your Terminal Live on the Web With ttyd

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100

If you’re in the business of giving demos or talking at conferences, webinars, or other gatherings, sooner or later you’ll have to show your terminal for a demo; in this case, this week’s article will surely interest you: ttyd.

Cute Battery on your tmux

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Just like last week, let’s add some more information to our tmux status bar: this time, the current battery level.

How to Create and Read QR Codes on the Terminal

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Hisham recently said something very true: remember when we all silently told ourselves “stop trying to make QR Codes happen, it will never catch on”?

Split and Join Arbitrary Text

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Last week I enumerated some strategies to split and join large files on the terminal; let’s see how to do more split and join, but this time for any text on the standard input, just like the creators of Unix wanted us to operate on data.

Split and Join Large Files

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200

This post explains some useful combinations of commands that you can use on Linux (or sometimes also in other operating systems) to split large files into smaller pieces, and then how to rebuild the original file from those pieces.

Adopting WezTerm

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100

I’ve recently discovered WezTerm, also known as “Wez’s Terminal Emulator” by Wez Furlong, and I’ve adopted it completely, becoming my default terminal application.

How to Use Demo Magic

Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

My colleague Tobru recently pointed me to demo-magic, and I now seriously wonder how could I ever do a live demo without this. The description of the project says it all:

Various Flatpak Tips and Tricks

Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0200

I use Flatpak a lot, on my work and personal laptops. I had to find a few tips and tricks to make it work the way I wanted, using all the apps I prefer.

Git for Non Technical Readers

Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0200

If you are in the business of software, sooner or later you will hear people talking about Git, GitHub, or GitLab. What are they? To explain that, we must learn what Git is first.