Ben Chuanlong Du's Blog

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Recommendation of Credit Card Usage

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. Avoid AMEX as it is nutorious for closing many customers' credit cards without valid reasons.

  2. Costco is a wholesale. It is not considered as a grocery or supermarket …

GCP Compute Engine VM Instances

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GCP

GCP c2 and c3 VMs are good choices according to performance per price. It's even cheaper than customized VM types with reduced memories! GCP c2 VMs are compute optimized and …

Tips on JavaScript

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The State of Frontend in 2022 has a good discussion about the state and trend of frontend technologies as of 2022.

JavaScript Runtimes

  1. Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment outside …

The ripgrep Command Is a Better Alternative to the find Command

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Installation on Debian/Ubuntu Based Linux Distributions

wajig install ripgrep

Installation on macOS

brew install ripgrep

List Files

There are 2 ways to list files using ripgrep. The first way is file name (globbing pattern) based and the second way is file content (regex pattern) based.