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  1. 💻 Happy Nat'l IBM PC Day! — August 12, 2026

    IBM PC Day, observed every August 12, commemorates the launch of the original IBM Personal Computer in 1981. IBM5150.net

    #IBMPCDay #NatlToday #IBM #PC #1981 #8080 #8088 #8Bit #16Bit #MicroComputer #16kBRAM #RAM #ROM #Floppy #I/O #ISA #eISA #Serial #DotMatrix #BIOS #DOS #Prompt #CommandLine #OS #Intel #DialUp #BBS #ShareWare #RetroComputing #ComputerHistory

  2. I was showing some photos to a relative and he asked me "How many photos do you have, anyway?" That sent me down a long (but fun) rabbit hole answering that question, and a couple of followup questions, using the .

    shallowsky.com/blog/linux/cmdl

  3. I was showing some photos to a relative and he asked me "How many photos do you have, anyway?" That sent me down a long (but fun) rabbit hole answering that question, and a couple of followup questions, using the #Linux #commandline.

    shallowsky.com/blog/linux/cmdl

  4. 📄 Pandoc celebrează 20 de ani ca convertorul universal de documente în ecosistemul open-source!

    Instrumentul esențial creat de John MacFarlane împlinește 20 de ani de la primul commit, marcând două decenii în care a rămas soluția de referință din linia de comandă pentru transformarea textului structurat dintr-un format în altul.

    ✨ De ce rămâne Pandoc un instrument de neînlocuit:

    🔄 Sute de combinații de conversie:
    • Traduce impecabil între zeci de formate populare: Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, EPUB, Docx (Word), ODT, PDF, reStructuredText, Org-mode și multe altele.

    🧠 Arhitectură bazată sursă-AST:
    • Utilizează un arbore sintactic abstract (Abstract Syntax Tree) intern, permițând analizarea precisă a structurii documentului fără a pierde formatarea, notele de subsol sau tabelele în timpul conversiei.

    🛠️ Automatizare și scriptare avansată:
    • Integrează filtre în Lua sau Python pentru manipularea conținutului în timpul procesării, fiind o piesă de bază în fluxurile de lucru de tip Publishing-as-Code și Static Site Generators.

    🎓 Apreciat în mediul academic și tehnic:
    • Este unealta preferată de cercetători, scriitori și dezvoltatori pentru generarea de cărți, articole științifice și documentații tehnice direct din fișiere text simple.

    💻 Multiplatformă și ultra-performant:
    • Scris în Haskell, rulează rapid pe Linux, macOS și Windows, consumând resurse minime indiferent de dimensiunea proiectului.

    La mulți ani unui proiect FOSS legendar care continuă să simplifice viața tuturor celor care lucrează cu fișiere text! 🚀

    #Pandoc #OpenSource #Linux #Markdown #LaTeX #Haskell #TechNews #FOSS #Publishing #CommandLine

  5. 📄 Pandoc celebrează 20 de ani ca convertorul universal de documente în ecosistemul open-source!

    Instrumentul esențial creat de John MacFarlane împlinește 20 de ani de la primul commit, marcând două decenii în care a rămas soluția de referință din linia de comandă pentru transformarea textului structurat dintr-un format în altul.

    ✨ De ce rămâne Pandoc un instrument de neînlocuit:

    🔄 Sute de combinații de conversie:
    • Traduce impecabil între zeci de formate populare: Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, EPUB, Docx (Word), ODT, PDF, reStructuredText, Org-mode și multe altele.

    🧠 Arhitectură bazată sursă-AST:
    • Utilizează un arbore sintactic abstract (Abstract Syntax Tree) intern, permițând analizarea precisă a structurii documentului fără a pierde formatarea, notele de subsol sau tabelele în timpul conversiei.

    🛠️ Automatizare și scriptare avansată:
    • Integrează filtre în Lua sau Python pentru manipularea conținutului în timpul procesării, fiind o piesă de bază în fluxurile de lucru de tip Publishing-as-Code și Static Site Generators.

    🎓 Apreciat în mediul academic și tehnic:
    • Este unealta preferată de cercetători, scriitori și dezvoltatori pentru generarea de cărți, articole științifice și documentații tehnice direct din fișiere text simple.

    💻 Multiplatformă și ultra-performant:
    • Scris în Haskell, rulează rapid pe Linux, macOS și Windows, consumând resurse minime indiferent de dimensiunea proiectului.

    La mulți ani unui proiect FOSS legendar care continuă să simplifice viața tuturor celor care lucrează cu fișiere text! 🚀

    #Pandoc #OpenSource #Linux #Markdown #LaTeX #Haskell #TechNews #FOSS #Publishing #CommandLine

  6. New release of Mosscap, a tiny automation tool: version 0.0.18 adds include file support and fixes some minor issues.

    #automation #cli #commandline #linux #opensource #golang

    codeberg.org/scip/mosscap

  7. Cette librairie semble très intéressante pour créer du texte avec une belle mise en forme pour un terminal. github.com/kusoroadeolu/Clique #java #commandline #style #library #opensource

  8. Cette librairie semble très intéressante pour créer du texte avec une belle mise en forme pour un terminal. github.com/kusoroadeolu/Clique #java #commandline #style #library #opensource

  9. Ce système semble permettre de communiquer en déposant votre site web sur une clé USB. C'est vraiment intriguant ... sneakerweb.org/ #web #matériel #réseau #bizarre #commandline

  10. Ce système semble permettre de communiquer en déposant votre site web sur une clé USB. C'est vraiment intriguant ... sneakerweb.org/ #web #matériel #réseau #bizarre #commandline

  11. 🚀🎉 Break out the champagne and the open-source confetti! #Linux has finally climbed to a whopping 10% #market #share in North America. Surely, this news will make everyone rush to their nearest command line, because who doesn't love a good old terminal party? 😂💻
    old.reddit.com/r/linux/comment #OpenSource #Celebration #TerminalParty #CommandLine #HackerNews #ngated

  12. 🚀🎉 Break out the champagne and the open-source confetti! #Linux has finally climbed to a whopping 10% #market #share in North America. Surely, this news will make everyone rush to their nearest command line, because who doesn't love a good old terminal party? 😂💻
    old.reddit.com/r/linux/comment #OpenSource #Celebration #TerminalParty #CommandLine #HackerNews #ngated

  13. Convert Excel Spreadsheet File Format (XLS, XLSX) to CSV

    Learn about the Free and Open Source Software options available to convert Excel spreadsheet file format (XLS/XLSX) to Comma Separated Values (CSV).

    adamsdesk.com/posts/convert-ex

  14. Convert Excel Spreadsheet File Format (XLS, XLSX) to CSV

    Learn about the Free and Open Source Software options available to convert Excel spreadsheet file format (XLS/XLSX) to Comma Separated Values (CSV).

    adamsdesk.com/posts/convert-ex

    #blog #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #commandline #linux #unix #windows

  15. Updated: Get Your Public IP Address with Ident.me

    - Update Post Clarity
    - Update Post Image

    Explore the potential of getting your public IP address using a service that is simple, fast, reliable, and without advertisements, and distractions.

    adamsdesk.com/posts/get-public

  16. Updated: Get Your Public IP Address with Ident.me

    - Update Post Clarity
    - Update Post Image

    Explore the potential of getting your public IP address using a service that is simple, fast, reliable, and without advertisements, and distractions.

    adamsdesk.com/posts/get-public

    #commandline #bash #OpenSource #FOSS #FreeSoftware #100DaysToOffload

  17. Other than org-mode – is there another interactivity and productivity focused plain-text markup language that allows me to magically enrich my marked-up notes with interactive elements, automation and such for the CLI/TUI?

    Like, most simple markup languages for text (e. g. Markdown) concern themselves with structuring and styling, which is great. Headlines, bold, italics, lists, all that.

    And then of course there are myriads of more complex markup languages (e. g. HTML) that are meant to be parsed by a program to provide functionality to the elements you marked up in the text.

    The latter is pretty much what I'm looking for; but HTML specifically isn't it, because it's focused on online hypertext documents, and has surprisingly little interactive elements without scripting, much less in the command line/TUI.

    I am basically looking for a markup language that is suitable for all kinds of text files I might write on my computer – to-do lists, idea collections, quick notes, structured articles, fiction stories etc. – that comes with a parser/reader/interpreter of sorts that not only adds visible style and structure, but actually makes my marked up elements as interactive, semantic and 'smart' as possible.

    Like selectable datetimes, automatic time zone conversion, parsing URLs, interactive checkboxes, to-do entries that can be ticked off and/or archived, proper tables, metadata like title and author, and so on.

    I want a semantic-as-fuck markup language.

    I feel like org-mode is nearly alone in that niche. It would be almost perfect but I don't use emacs, I don't like how it controls, and outside of the emacs community, there is therefore little support for org-mode, interpreter application-wise.

    [Not looking for advice on how to use org-mode or why I should totally give it a chance with tool neofoobar or whatnot, I'm only looking for alternatives. :P]

    #MarkupLanguages #Markup #Linux #AskFedi #OrgMode #CommandLine #Tui #Cli

  18. Other than org-mode – is there another interactivity and productivity focused plain-text markup language that allows me to magically enrich my marked-up notes with interactive elements, automation and such for the CLI/TUI?

    Like, most simple markup languages for text (e. g. Markdown) concern themselves with structuring and styling, which is great. Headlines, bold, italics, lists, all that.

    And then of course there are myriads of more complex markup languages (e. g. HTML) that are meant to be parsed by a program to provide functionality to the elements you marked up in the text.

    The latter is pretty much what I'm looking for; but HTML specifically isn't it, because it's focused on online hypertext documents, and has surprisingly little interactive elements without scripting, much less in the command line/TUI.

    I am basically looking for a markup language that is suitable for all kinds of text files I might write on my computer – to-do lists, idea collections, quick notes, structured articles, fiction stories etc. – that comes with a parser/reader/interpreter of sorts that not only adds visible style and structure, but actually makes my marked up elements as interactive, semantic and 'smart' as possible.

    Like selectable datetimes, automatic time zone conversion, parsing URLs, interactive checkboxes, to-do entries that can be ticked off and/or archived, proper tables, metadata like title and author, and so on.

    I want a semantic-as-fuck markup language.

    I feel like org-mode is nearly alone in that niche. It would be almost perfect but I don't use emacs, I don't like how it controls, and outside of the emacs community, there is therefore little support for org-mode, interpreter application-wise.

    [Not looking for advice on how to use org-mode or why I should totally give it a chance with tool neofoobar or whatnot, I'm only looking for alternatives. :P]

    #MarkupLanguages #Markup #Linux #AskFedi #OrgMode #CommandLine #Tui #Cli

  19. i do understand why people prefer HJKL navigation over arrow keys. it's conveniently on the touch typing home row, and it doesn't get in the way of special keybinds like alt + arrow to switch virtual terminals.

    but i dont understand why HJKL goes "left, down, up, right".

    like, i'm not even talking about how the horizontal directions are split or how it's not in the order of a compass, that's another debate entirely.

    but, uh, don't we generally read directions as "left and right" and "up and down"? don't we read from left to right and from up to down in the west, too? who says "left and right" and "down and up"?

    shouldn't HJKL be "left, up, down, right"?

    even when you consider the text navigation it doesn't make sense. left goes backward by character, down goes forward by line.

    #linux #commandline #shell #vi #vim

  20. i do understand why people prefer HJKL navigation over arrow keys. it's conveniently on the touch typing home row, and it doesn't get in the way of special keybinds like alt + arrow to switch virtual terminals.

    but i dont understand why HJKL goes "left, down, up, right".

    like, i'm not even talking about how the horizontal directions are split or how it's not in the order of a compass, that's another debate entirely.

    but, uh, don't we generally read directions as "left and right" and "up and down"? don't we read from left to right and from up to down in the west, too? who says "left and right" and "down and up"?

    shouldn't HJKL be "left, up, down, right"?

    even when you consider the text navigation it doesn't make sense. left goes backward by character, down goes forward by line.

    #linux #commandline #shell #vi #vim

  21. i love writing a shell script and then finding out the way i wrote it is so awful that there is a mock award website for people making that exact mistake

    a website which was made in 1995

    #linux #shell #zsh #commandline #bash

  22. i love writing a shell script and then finding out the way i wrote it is so awful that there is a mock award website for people making that exact mistake

    a website which was made in 1995

    #linux #shell #zsh #commandline #bash

  23. "Linux Command Library" is a website that includes plenty of examples for Linux commands, tips and cheat-sheets. It's specially useful when you want to check something more succint:

    linuxcommandlibrary.com/

    #Technology #Linux #CommandLine #TipsAndTricks

  24. "Linux Command Library" is a website that includes plenty of examples for Linux commands, tips and cheat-sheets. It's specially useful when you want to check something more succint:

    linuxcommandlibrary.com/

    #Technology #Linux #CommandLine #TipsAndTricks

  25. #Linux #Commandline #Shellscripts

    Anyone dealing with #Linux, #MacOS, #Android or setting up #LLMs or anything on a #network these days, runs tons of shell-scripts *blindly*.

    #AsRoot

    Being able to somewhat "read" and understand such "code" is definitely something to be taught again (#schools 🧑‍🎓 - it's actually not only more fun, but also really "more secure" to be that "code-literate". ;)

    #curlDownloadScriptAsRoot? 💣️

    Opinions?

  26. #Linux #Commandline #Shellscripts

    Anyone dealing with #Linux, #MacOS, #Android or setting up #LLMs or anything on a #network these days, runs tons of shell-scripts *blindly*.

    #AsRoot

    Being able to somewhat "read" and understand such "code" is definitely something to be taught again (#schools 🧑‍🎓 - it's actually not only more fun, but also really "more secure" to be that "code-literate". ;)

    #curlDownloadScriptAsRoot? 💣️

    Opinions?

  27. italics in the console. what do we think

    (font is UW ttyp0), which is very well-documented and easy to customize to one's liking)

    #CommandLine #linux #terminal

  28. hey hey #Linux people, I might need advice to make a decision.

    I would like to try out a console-only workflow, i. e. using only CLI and TUI programs, and avoiding the mouse as much as possible in favour of keyboard shortcuts.

    Should I go for a tiling window manager/compositor and just 'live' in a terminal emulator?
    Or is it feasible to omit X11/Wayland entirely and use a terminal multiplexer such as tmux or Zellij in the default Linux framebuffer console?

    As far as I can tell, a proper window manager (or compositor) such as ratpoison or stumpwm has the advantage of, say, a system tray and better support for Unicode, scaling, multi-monitor setups, input handling and so on.

    But since I only want to use CLI and TUI applications, I feel like a WM/compositor might be a bit overkill after all. I mean, running a whole display server just to end up with a number of terminal emulators seems very silly when you could just use your actual VTTY. And modern terminal multiplexers such as Zelij allow you to have a status bar too, as far as I can see.

    I'm worried this might end up locking me in with a setup that doesn't work in some ways though, e. g. when it comes to font support or colours or inputs or freezing sessions or whatever.

    Any advice?

    #commandLine #TUI #CLI #terminal

  29. hey hey #Linux people, I might need advice to make a decision.

    I would like to try out a console-only workflow, i. e. using only CLI and TUI programs, and avoiding the mouse as much as possible in favour of keyboard shortcuts.

    Should I go for a tiling window manager/compositor and just 'live' in a terminal emulator?
    Or is it feasible to omit X11/Wayland entirely and use a terminal multiplexer such as tmux or Zellij in the default Linux framebuffer console?

    As far as I can tell, a proper window manager (or compositor) such as ratpoison or stumpwm has the advantage of, say, a system tray and better support for Unicode, scaling, multi-monitor setups, input handling and so on.

    But since I only want to use CLI and TUI applications, I feel like a WM/compositor might be a bit overkill after all. I mean, running a whole display server just to end up with a number of terminal emulators seems very silly when you could just use your actual VTTY. And modern terminal multiplexers such as Zelij allow you to have a status bar too, as far as I can see.

    I'm worried this might end up locking me in with a setup that doesn't work in some ways though, e. g. when it comes to font support or colours or inputs or freezing sessions or whatever.

    Any advice?

    #commandLine #TUI #CLI #terminal

  30. I have just uploaded a maintenance release of The Linux Command Line, Seventh Internet Edition. It fixes a few typos and a couple of bugs.

    #Linux #CLI #coreutils #LinuxBooks #shell #CommandLine

    linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

  31. "Linux 101 Hacks" is an interesting website where there's plenty of Linux commands that I suppose every sysadmin would love, worth checking out:

    linux.101hacks.com/toc/

    #Technology #Linux #CommandLine #TipsAndTricks