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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.

Fast DC Charging in WA

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

Tips & Traps

  1. PlugShare helps you find plugs regardless of network and see user ratings/comments on those plugs to see if they are accessible or reliable. PlugShare for charging stations is …

Tips on Airbnb

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

Weather

  1. Make sure to check the weather of your planned stops (instead of your depart city). The weather (including temperature) can vary greatly even after 30 minutes driving!

Scrutinize the Listing …

Prompt Engineering for LLM Tools

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

Tips and Traps

  1. set temporature

  2. give some examples

  3. leverage built tools provided by LLM products. For example, Google AI Studio provides tools

    • grounding with google search, etc.

  4. A single comprehensive prompt …

Fix Shell Commands Using fc

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

fzf.history is a better alternative to fc's core functionality (edit and re-execute command).

Tips & Traps

  1. In Linux shells like Bash and Zsh, fc is a built-in command that stands …