I'm using Ubuntu as my daily driver these days, and while I love it, I really miss some of the built-in features of Windows such as recently used files. For example, what Git repos have I pulled or worked in recently? A little Linux-Fu solves this problem quite easily! Here's

One of the more frustrating experiences that happens to me (and maybe you too!) while working on my computer is trying to find a specific file, or a file containing a phrase or programming function, and it can be hard to figure out how to move forward. Fortunately, there's a

Once in awhile (like today!) I have to zip up a git project to send to someone. When this happens, obviously don't want to include the .git files, I just want the contents of the repo. To do this, I use this command: zip -r my-zippedup-stuff.zip ./directory-of-my-project/ -x '*