Firewalld configuration and usage

If you are a Linux old-timer, who is used to iptables (or even ipchains, or even … anyway), you might find “Firewalld configuration and usage” guide very handy.  It covers firewalld concepts and provides a number of examples for zones, ports, services, interfaces and other bits and pieces that you might be scratching your head about, when configuring the modern Linux firewall.

The coolest tech CV ever

This TravisCI blog post welcomes AJ to the team.  In it, there is a bit that caught my attention (except, of course, the one about bra burning):

If you’re so inclined, you can follow her on Twitter or run curl cv.soulshake.net.

Wait a second … A what? curl for the CV?  I had to try it out.  Here’s an even better way, for reading all the slides:

p=1; while [ $p -lt 9 ]; do curl -N cv.soulshake.net/$((p++)); read; done

Oh. My. God. Lo and behold, this is the coolest tech CV I’ve ever seen. Ever. Period.  TravisCI is so lucky to have her!

P.S.: If you are interested in how this was done, here a couple of blog posts – one and two.

UI Museum: Norton Commander 5.0

Norton Commander

Ilya Birman has a massive blog post “UI Museum: Norton Commander 5.0” with almost 60 screenshots (!!!) and user interface feature descriptions of Norton Commander – an icon tool that was used by a whole generation of PC users in the DOS and early Windows era.

Norton Commander was so popular that is spawned a number of other projects that brought similar functionality to other operating systems (Midnight Commander for Linux), later versions of Windows (Far, Total Commander), and even other file management tools (FileZilla, CutFTP) and more.

Good old times…

Dephpugger – PHP debugger for the command line

DePHPugger is an easy to use debugger for PHP, which works from the command line and can also be integrated with any IDE or editor.  Here is a GIF screencast that demonstrates the functionality:

There are more demos in the project’s GitHub repository. You can also read this article and watch this video.