Sometimes you need to deal with base64 strings, here are a couple commands that make it easy to encode/decode those strings using the terminal. I deal with various types of authentication strings a lot, which are often base64 encoded, and often need to quickly test and verify the base64 values …

Sometimes we need to find a file or folder in a directory, but struggle to remember the exact name that we’re trying to find. Tab auto-completion is great but it also assumes that we know the first few letters of the thing we need to find. Here is a simple terminal command that will do a …

If you’ve seen an ‘Authentication failed for https://____.git error, here’s a quick command to update your credentials through the command line. For Mac: git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain For Windows: git config --global credential.helper wincred You should then see …