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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 …

Manage Python Projects Using uv

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Installation

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | env UV_INSTALL_DIR="/usr/local/bin" sh

Usage

  1. Migrate from other Python projects to …

Tips on Bash Completion

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Installation

Ubuntu / Debian

wajig install bash-completion

macOS

brew install bash-completion

Develop Bash Completion

Auto Generate Bash Completion Scripts

  1. The cobra library in GoLang supports auto …

The ripgrep Command Is a Better Alternative to the find Command

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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.