iridakos

Hi, I am Lazarus Lazaridis and this is my personal blog with posts mostly related to programming.
And cats.

Feb 6, 2020
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programming
Find palindrome dates in the Linux command line - explained
Explaining how to find palindrome dates using a shell command in Linux
Tags: how-to - linux - opensource - bash - scripts - awk - climagic
Jan 23, 2020
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cats
Goodbye Irida
A goodbye to my beloved cat
Tags: cat - cats - Irida
Dec 20, 2019
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programming
Vim
A poem for vim
Tags: humor - devhumor - poem - linux
Dec 12, 2019
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programming
Descriptive variable names
Help help help
Tags: humor - devhumor
Dec 6, 2019
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cats
Movie night
Watching horror movies with a cat in the house
Tags: photo - cat - cats - movie
Dec 4, 2019
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programming
Pizza commit
When the pizza arrives while you are committing the code
Tags: humor - devhumor
Dec 4, 2019
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programming
What do you get after you lose your data from an SSD?
What?
Tags: humor - devhumor
Dec 3, 2019
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programming
I am talking to my code
Are you talking to me?
Tags: humor - devhumor
Nov 22, 2019
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programming
i
A poem for var i
Tags: humor - devhumor - poem
Nov 22, 2019
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programming
Mongoid - Inheritance: change embedded document's type via nested attributes
How to change the type of an embedded document via nested attributes.
Tags: ruby - rails - how-to - mongoid - mongodb - tutorial - opensource
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My latest post

Find palindrome dates in the Linux command line - explained
Explaining how to find palindrome dates using a shell command in Linux

featured posts

Creating a bash completion script
A tutorial for adding tab completion to your scripts using the Bash Programmable Completion functionality.
Creating a Linux Desktop application with Ruby
A tutorial for creating a simple GTK ToDo application with Ruby
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How to write better emails
Tips for composing effective emails avoiding misunderstandings with examples from the software development world.
How to remove duplicate lines from files preserving their order
How to remove duplicate lines of a file in Linux without sorting or changing their order (awk one-liner explained).
DuckRails - Open source development tool for mocking API endpoints
An introduction and a guide for installing and using DuckRails, a development tool for mocking API endpoints easily and dynamically. Docker image available.
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code

goto: a tool for navigating to aliased directories in the shell with auto complete
elman: a script for full text searching Linux man pages with Elasticsearch
DuckRails version 2.1.5 is out (docker image available)

news

I published a post for my beloved cat, Irida...
I published a post for building a chat application with Rails and WebSockets (ActionCable) and another one for dockerizing it and running it in Docker.
Cat photos section is here.