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Hi, I am Lazarus Lazaridis and this is my personal blog with posts mostly related to programming. And cats.
I just released stup, a tool for easily keeping organized daily notes in the terminal. You can find it on GitHub here.
Apr 20, 2020
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stup - Daily notes in the terminal
Introducing a shell tool for saving, organizing and searching daily notes from the command line
Tags: linux - opensource - bash - scripts - productivity - tools
Feb 6, 2020
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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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Goodbye Irida
A goodbye to my beloved cat
Tags: cat - cats - Irida
Dec 20, 2019
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Vim
A poem for vim
Tags: humor - devhumor - poem - linux
Dec 12, 2019
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Descriptive variable names
Help help help
Tags: humor - devhumor
Dec 6, 2019
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Movie night
Watching horror movies with a cat in the house
Tags: photo - cat - cats - movie
Dec 4, 2019
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Pizza commit
When the pizza arrives while you are committing the code
Tags: humor - devhumor
Dec 4, 2019
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What do you get after you lose your data from an SSD?
What?
Tags: humor - devhumor
Dec 3, 2019
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I am talking to my code
Are you talking to me?
Tags: humor - devhumor
Nov 22, 2019
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i
A poem for var i
Tags: humor - devhumor - poem
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stup - Daily notes in the terminal
Introducing a shell tool for saving, organizing and searching daily notes from the command line

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