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Marcel is a shell. It is intended to be familiar to anyone who knows bash, but it emphasizes piping objects between commands, instead of strings. E.g., to explore the current directory recursively and find files changed…

Python's input() and readline module support single-line input. I.e., each time the dude typing on the keyboard presses Enter, that ends the line of input, which is then added to the history maintained by readline. It…

I have an MBP with a Linux VM. My monitor is a Thunderbolt display. I would like to change to the following environment: - Add a Linux laptop (looking seriously at a System 76 Galago Pro). - Keep the MBP for Mac…

I am 61, with an academic background in computer science, and many years in industry, mostly startups. I taught many years ago, and have resumed teaching, a database course: data modeling, relational algebra, SQL,…

I have many years of experience as a software engineer, and have worked extensively with databases, mostly Oracle and Postgres. I use what might charitably be called an informal design methodology for database schemas.…

I am an American, and dismayed (but not surprised) that the US Congress voted to allow ISPs to cash in on data derived from my usage of the internet. Supposedly VPNs solve this problem. What does this hide other than my…

I love Intellij products. I inquired about buying their All Product license, and discovered that this license permits the use of one product at a time. So if I am in Intellij, and want to use AppCode, I have to exit…

For nearly ten years, my entire computing environment has been a MBP with a Linux VM. OSX was an excellent end user (non dev) environment (music, photos, video), Linux is my preferred dev environment, and VMWare…

So I'm going to be traveling for a few days, and I want my snail mail held by the post office. I found that the USPS has an extremely convenient website for stopping mail: https://holdmail.usps.com/holdmail. I entered…