I use a Mac, but the instructions provided should also be applicable to the Zsh terminal on Linux. Terminal Emulator The default terminal application on Mac OS is good, but there are more feature-rich terminals out there. Personally, I use WezTerm as I found it more performant in certain multiplexer scenarios. You can choose from…
The graphical interface is often more intuitive and easier to get started with but the Command Line interface has its own advantages that make it essential for power users and software developers. The text-based nature of Command Line lends itself well to the following: To top it up, the Linux command line system is incredibly…
Bun has made a big splash on reaching version 1.0. It is so much faster than Nodejs and provides enough compatibility with Nodejs to get most people interested. One of the key design decisions that helped Bun achieve this outstanding performance is to bundle all the tooling required for a typical JavaScript project into a…
On the Linux platform, the drag-and-drop plugin enables nnn to work with other GUI applications like Email, Slack, Finder etc. but no such option is available for MacOS. This limits the usability of nnn on MacOS. I have implemented two plugins to support file copy and paste from a MacOS clipboard. This will help share…
The finder plugin integrates the find command with nnn Terminal File Manager but out-of-the-box it doesn’t work on MacOS, throwing a bunch of errors. Upgrade Bash The first problem is the mapfile command not found on MacOS. This is because of an older version of bash installed on MacOS by default. Typically, bash version 3…
It is mainly a maintenance release with a few enhancements. Here is the change log for version 0.8: This release can be downloaded from here.
nnn (n3) is a text-based file manager for the terminal. It is a significant improvement over ls and cd for moving around the file system. Execute the following command to install nnn. If you don’t have brew, install it first. It is highly recommended for Package Management on MacOS. For other ways of installing nnn,…
RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) is an AI technique for Large Language Models (LLM) to extract answers from an external source. It helps mitigate the problem of hallucinations and provides more accurate and up-to-date responses. Recently, the committee of Ballarat held a session, “Leveraging the AI Opportunity”, as part of their Insights forum. I delivered a…
It is a minor release including few bug fixes and minor enhancements. We have to ability to upload images now, earlier images could only be added using a URL. Another enhancement is the ability to use collaboration in nested editors like image caption. Here is a demo: Change Log:
svelte-lexical version 0.3.0 is out with a lot of new features and bug fixes. Now, we can insert code blocks. They support keyword and syntax highlighting in 14 different languages. Also, there is support for code formatting using Prettier for HTML, JavaScript, CSS and markdown. Another focus area for enhancements in this release is hyperlinks.…