• Linux | How To Easily Compress a Video With ffmpeg

    Linux | How To Easily Compress a Video With ffmpeg

    Every here and there, you may come across a use case where it’s necessary to reduce a video file by 50-80% without any noticeable loss of quality. Often times it’s for front-end performance reasons but can also come in handy if a server has an upload limit (50MB on a typical WordPress site for example)....

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  • 5 Useful Time-Saving Bash Aliases

    5 Useful Time-Saving Bash Aliases

    Defining bash aliases has always been a neat little trick for saving time on the command line. When learning about aliases, a few ideas may immediately jump out. There are also some you may not have thought about. I hope to uncover at least one of those. In this post, I’ll list 5 of my...

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  • Quick Tip: Use Bash Aliases To Save Time on The Command Line

    Quick Tip: Use Bash Aliases To Save Time on The Command Line

    As a developer, a fair portion of your time is spent on the command line. Certain command are used religiously, so why not save a keystroke or ten? Let’s take a common unix need: updating your packages. When you update, you use something like this: Wouldn’t it be nice to only have to type in...

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