htop is a common command line tool for seeing interactive output of your system resource utilization, running processes, etc. I've always been super confused about htop showing seemingly the same process several times though... The Fix... Just hit H ... read more →

pipx is a tool I've been using to solve a few problems of mine... pinning formatting tools like black, flake8, isort, etc. to the same version for all my projects keeping virtual environments clean of things like cookiecutter python utilities I wan ... read more →

fx is an interactaive JSON viewer for the terminal. It's a simple tool built with Charmcli's Bubble Tea. Installation The installation with go was broken for me - both via the link and direct from the repo. Now I'm not a gopher so I don't really kno ... read more →

Type hinting has helped me write code almost as much, if not more, than unit testing. One thing I love is that with complete type hinting you get a lot more out of your LSP. Typing dictionaries can be tricky and I recently learned about TypedDict to ... read more →

I run pi-hole at home for ad blocking and some internal DNS/DHCP handling. pi hole posts on the way One thing I've never put too much thought in is asking "how well am I doing at blocking?" There's lots of ways to measure that depending on ... read more →