I’m a firm believer that we only have so many keys strokes in our lifetime, I save as many as I can with bash aliases. A simple bash alias can improve your efficiency at the keyboard many times over. Using variables in your bash aliases helps to pass a value into your alias at specified …

I recently needed to do some troubleshooting of a Docker container that was using an Alpine base Docker image. The error I ran into, “Can’t run script file in Docker, no such file or directory”. Alpine images are great because of their small footprint that removes all of the …

I recently needed to create a Markdown document that contained the same couple of values throughout the document. The developer in me hates to copy/paste anything more than a couple of times if it has the potential to ever change. So I looked for a way to assign a variable in Markdown. The idea is …