How to display brightness level in i3status bar

I’ve been using Linux for a long time, but I was never entirely happy with the desktop environment options available. Until last year, Xfce was the closest to what I consider a good compromise between features and performance. Then I found i3, an amazing piece of software that changed … Read more

What is DevOps?

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1. Definition from Wikipedia:

DevOps (a clipped compound of “development” and “operations”) is a set of software development practices[failed verification] that combines software development (Dev) with information technology operations (Ops) to shorten the systems development life cycle while delivering features, fixes, and updates frequently in close alignment with business objectives.… Read more

How to auto login in MySQL from a shell?

When you run MySQL commands MySQL, mysqlcheck, mysqdump and psql, psqldump, etc; they will pick username & password from this file if you do not provide them as argument (-u and -p). It can save you time.

Of course, if you specify username and password explicitly as part of the … Read more