Thoughts on Programming
This blog post is the first in a series of articles on the topic of artificial intelligence.— Contrary to the views of various “experts” from the past, AI has not disappeared; instead, it is gaining more significance in everyday life, particularly through AI chatbots. ChatGPT is perhaps the most widely used example. Most users might … Read more
The first edition of the book macOS Shell for Beginners was published in spring 2017. At that time, Bash was still defined as the default login shell. Accordingly, the first edition, as well as the following editions 2 and 3, focused on Bash. With the switch to Z shell (zsh) as the default login shell, … Read more
What good are all the files in the file system if you can’t find them again? Exactly—none. That’s why this blog post is all about searching for files (and folders) using the shell. There are several commands available for this, but I’ll focus on find. Open the Terminal and create a new subfolder named “shell” … Read more
Introduction Rust is a relatively young language in the field of systems programming. Its first stable release came out in 2015, though it was announced back in 2010. Rust blends several programming paradigms — functional, object-oriented, and concurrent — making it easy for programmers from different backgrounds to find familiar concepts. However, those unfamiliar with … Read more
uv is a package manager written in Rust that is an alternative to pip. It allows you to isolate a project, meaning packages installed with uv are only available to the respective Python project. This makes it possible to install different package versions for different projects. When a package is installed with uv, the package … Read more