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

• #hardware #servers #troubleshooting

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.

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Bash aliases and why I love them

• #bash

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.

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Automatic git commit

• #bash #git

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.

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