https://sairam.dev/categories/productivity/ Recent content in Productivity on Sai Ram's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us © 2020. All rights reserved. Sat, 08 Apr 2017 23:06:02 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/read-later-tools-are-productivity-killers/ Sat, 08 Apr 2017 23:06:02 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/read-later-tools-are-productivity-killers/ First, lets take a count of your open tabs as well as ‘Pocket’ like tools which are marked ‘Read Later’. Post the creation of Insta Paper, everyone wanted to read their information in a clean way, those who cannot tried to push it to their Kindles or Evernote. These people read a lot and wanted to read a lot. When you push to other devices, you may lose count on what you need to read. https://sairam.dev/post/cli-productivity-fzf-yank/ Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/cli-productivity-fzf-yank/ fzf Came across an powerful CLI fzf utility. There are plugins for vim, tmux and bash too. If you are a command line junkie like I am, you should definitely not miss this. yank do check out yank and on mac with brew install yank source: http://brewformulas.org/yank Now fzf | yank ps -ef | fzf | yank copy the selected output from fzf and copy it into clipboard. https://sairam.dev/post/bypassing-the-paste-restriction-on-browsers/ Sat, 18 Mar 2017 12:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/bypassing-the-paste-restriction-on-browsers/ Banking sites and Mac OS Keychain makes you intentionally type in your credentials. These can be usually bypassed with help of browser specific extensions using Password Managers like 1Password or LastPass. Its also important to note that have their own downsides aka bugs. Being a developer using a keyboard for hours every day since 10+ years, being productive will become a mandatory requirement for me personally. By unblocking websites and Mac from restricting me to use the bypassed paste, I feel invincible on the keyboard. https://sairam.dev/post/making-cheatsheets/ Wed, 01 Mar 2017 23:42:04 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/making-cheatsheets/ I used to be a Google / Stack Overflow junkie for syntax issues or finding configuration/compatability issues in the vast amount of dimensions software gives us. An approach I used to solve this problem was to document snippets once I have solved the problem (don’t forget to upvote the answer on SO). This is especially useful when you start learning a language. When you start learning a language, there are https://sairam.dev/post/screen-capture-on-mac/ Sun, 18 Sep 2016 18:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/screen-capture-on-mac/ (This article was intended to be written on 18th Sep 2016, but actually written on 8th April 2017) In order to take a screenshot on Mac, the standard way is to the Grab application. Keyboard users often get used to these. ⌘ + ⇧ + 3 - full screen which generated a file on Desktop ⌘ + ⇧ + 4 - capture custom dimensions using the mouse. I recently discovered that screencapture command is part of the OS X. https://sairam.dev/post/bash-history-cli-shortcuts/ Sat, 30 Apr 2016 15:54:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/bash-history-cli-shortcuts/ ## Previous Command's All Arguments mkdir long_path_here/new_dir cd !* ## Previous Command's Last Argument mkdir long_path_here/new_dir cd !$ or even use $_ instead of !$ ## Previous Command's First Argument mkdir long_path_here/new_dir cd !^ ## History mkdir long_path_here/new_dir cd `Esc` `.` cd `Alt`+`.` Pressing Esc followed by . will give previous arguments ## "More Options" !^ first argument !$ last argument !* all arguments !:2 second argument !:2-3 second to third arguments ! https://sairam.dev/post/bye-bye-delicious-yo-pinboard/ Sun, 03 Apr 2016 21:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/bye-bye-delicious-yo-pinboard/ Delicious has been one of my favourite and a tool that I have held since 200[78]. The entity has been through several transitions. People have feared and moved out and became in-active. del.icio.us the most famous domain hack around 2008. Yahoo bought it, later sold it and I don’t know what happened later on. Then, starting around Dec 2015, Delicious started popping up Advertisements. They were like the ads from 2000s where you see amazing animations which sucked. https://sairam.dev/post/shared-and-faster-ssh/ Sun, 10 Jan 2016 17:21:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/shared-and-faster-ssh/ Host * ControlMaster auto ControlPath /tmp/ssh_mux_%h_%p_%r ControlPersist 8h StrictHostKeyChecking no UserKnownHostsFile /dev/null LogLevel ERROR ForwardAgent yes # also forward the current ssh keys Source Link https://sairam.dev/post/csshx-with-lincastor-on-mac/ Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:20:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/csshx-with-lincastor-on-mac/ Problem Statement: I want to SSH into a list of hosts from the browser(from a host monitoring UI). Note: At this point of time, we did not have Service Discovery present. To identify this, in our team, we maintained a single service which has this list. The service is responsible for bunch of things including displaying host metrics, checking health statuses, disk space, querying the LB status for the service/port. https://sairam.dev/post/moving-to-a-smarter-life/ Sat, 15 Mar 2014 10:00:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/moving-to-a-smarter-life/ After losing my iPhone 3 years ago, I lost hope of ever buying an iPhone again. I lived on with Nokia phones without access to internet, relying on my laptop for source of real time information. I adored smartphones, but despised Android because of lack of quality, security and consitency of buttons, features, app store. After buying my first Mac 4 years ago, my world has changed. I was into iPhone, Apple news, develpers who have their working environment on Mac. https://sairam.dev/post/configuring-ssh-server/ Sat, 20 Jul 2013 12:22:00 +0530 https://sairam.dev/post/configuring-ssh-server/ Basic README # $OpenBSD: sshd_config,v 1.80 2008/07/02 02:24:18 djm Exp $ # This is the sshd server system-wide configuration file. See # sshd_config(5) for more information. # This sshd was compiled with PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin # The strategy used for options in the default sshd_config shipped with # OpenSSH is to specify options with their default value where # possible, but leave them commented. Uncommented options change a # default value. Default system level configuration Change the default port from 22. https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-09-howto-grep-text-between-two-words-in-unix-linux/ Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://sairam.dev/post/2013-05-09-howto-grep-text-between-two-words-in-unix-linux/ HowTo: grep Text Between Two Words in Unix / Linuxby nixCraft