Add some spice to your text by randomly coloring each word in a text file. head -n30 cat_haiku.txt | awk 'BEGIN{srand()} RS=" " {c=int(rand()*200)+32;printf "\033[38;5;" c "m" $0 "\033[0m "}'

That one time they let me make the agenda posters. #TBT #xkcd #linux #security

If you are a user of geeqie (a nice *nix photo viewer) and need to start a second session, but don't want it to interfere with the first, you can use the -n option: geeqie -n Check 'man geeqie' for a bunch of other useful options.

HP adding AI to their printers. "I'm sorry Dave, I can't print that." m.slashdot.org/story/433589

Happy 20,000th day of Unix epoch time: echo $(( $( date +%s ) / 86400 ))

Some of you might remember celebrating day 15,000 youtube.com/watch?v=iDat2p…

Countdown to 20,000 + surprise (bash version + requires cowsay): tt=$((20000*86400));until [[ $(date +%s) -ge $tt ]];do cowsay $(($tt - $(date +%s) ));sleep 1;clear;done ; for i in {16..250};do printf "\x1b[48;5;${i}m%

Sorry, the command got cut off when I copy/pasted it. for i in {16..250};do printf "\x1b[48;5;${i}m%$(($COLUMNS*$LINES))s" "";sleep 0.1;done

If you've been looking to get the new CLImagic stickers at a reduced price, I have a coupon SUSOOCT20OFF running til the end of the month for 20% off. ebay.com/itm/2263459464… ebay.com/itm/2263448154…

What kind of loser attacks the Internet Archive. Seriously not cool.

Here's your regular reminder that you can toggle options within less(1) without having to re-start it. Type minus followed by the option-letter. So -i for case-(in)sensitivity -R for ANSI handling -S for wrapping long lines -N for line-numbers -g for search-match highlighting

Now would be a great time to learn Morse Code.

I can talk to plants and they say they want water.

If you like Command Line Magic then I just found an underrated youtube channel that you might be interrested in. I've watched a couple of his videos and they're all about the beauty of command line and bash scripting. Check out this video on FZF for example : youtube.com/watch?v=hwMGTq…

Please vote. (And yes, these are VT100 keycaps)

Every Unix is sacred, every Unix is best, every Unix is different, when you run ps.

Wondering where the content is? I've been on Mastodon for years (Command Line Magic) and now Bluesky (climagic.bsky.social) as well. I tend to post more to those networks lately and will reduce the amount here (whatever you want to call this place anymore).