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Command Line Gems

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As a long time command line lover, I have gathered a lot of little tools that help me throughout the day (and night). This list represents an unordered and probably incomplete inventory of my command line swiss army knife.

The Lost Art of Reading Source Code

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In my old programming days reading source code of libraries that I used was often a hard task. Either the code was closed source or only in binary format.

Today we live in a world in which programmers like to share their code and have the tools to do so. We could not be more lucky. To solve a certain task we can choose from many different solutions that may vary in quality and functionality. If one does not fit the purpose we just use the next one.