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2023

Git hooks: a painless way to use them

Git hooks are a very handy feature in development. However, because of their local nature, configuring them from a centralized repository perspective can be challenging. In this note, I aim to find a convenient solution to this problem.

Server's first aid kit: a quick way to determine if your server is alive and well

There are a lot of posts in the internet regarding which program or tool does what in Linux systems. Usually it's a brief overview of the program's functionality, a few examples, and that's it. All from the objective point of view: what we want to achieve. But there aren't so many posts discussing the algorithms in which these programs can be used. So I decided to write a quick guide you can follow to determine whether there's a problem with a server and where it is.

Bash aliases and why I love them

I love bash. A tool as trivial as command line interface (CLI, or just console) holds so many secrets, that even after 9 years of experience I still sometime find something wonderful. But today I want to talk a bit about one of my favourite tricks — aliases.

Landing and blog: how-to and why at all

A short story about why I decided to create a personal website and blog and how I set them up and got them running. (Which turned into a manual on how to create a static website with S3 + HTTPS + custom domain name and blog for it using GitHub Pages).

Automatic git commit

How often you find yourself in the situation, when you're too bored to write a commit message? Personally, quite often. For this specific reason I finally managed to create a quick way to write commit messages.