News Delivered Straight to Your Terminal with RSSTail

If you need a quick dose of news without any options to “just” click a link to “read more”, this one is for you.

rsstail -n 3 -u http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/index.rss -1

… shows the last 3 Items of an RSS Feed. As a shortcut, simply add it to your .bash_aliases

alias news='rsstail -n 3 -u http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/index.rss -1'

Check rsstail -h for all options. Install RSSTail using brew install rsstail. RSSTail

screen - Multitasking on the Command Line

Hey, this becomes fun. Here is another visual cheat sheet for screen - a badly named (for search) but vastly powerful tool bringing multiple window multi-tasking to the command line.

⌃ + a + | Vertical split window

⌃ + a + S Horizontal split window

⌃ + a + X Remove window

⌃ + a + C Create new screen

⌃ + a + n Cycle screens

Note: Capitalization matters

vim - Navigation Basics

w Word forward

b Word backward

0 Start of current Line

$ End of current Line

⌃ + d Half a screen down

⌃ + u Half a screen up

I have to look these vim shortcuts all the time. So I made this visual cheat sheet to make this process at least as quick as possible.

IP Update Check - A ruby script for monitoring IP address changes

I wrote a little ruby script that shows a system notification when the IP address of your website changes. This is useful when you migrate from one server to another and wait for a DNS update of your domain to take effect. It uses the Mac OS X built in notification center to show the notification.

Usage

./ipupdatecheck.rb yourwebsite.com

The script is in an extremely early state, very unpolished, not very efficient and reports false alarms when a ping accidently fails - so please take it easy - BUT … it basically works. So if you are in the situation of waiting for a DNS update, you might still find this useful. And while you’re waiting anyhow … why not fork it and take it to the next level :)

• Download the script on Github

Dependencies

• Ruby 1.9.2 (because it uses Resolv.rb for the IP lookup)
• Terminal-Notifier for the Mac OS X System Notifications

iPad and iPhone “Plus” Apps, Illustrator Icons

Here’s a simple black and white vector icon for iOS plus apps.

• Download Illustrator File

Move All Files and Folders One Up in the Folder Hierarchy

Bash

mv * .[^.]* ..

(Source: superuser.com)

Local web server + virtual hosts setup on Mac OS X 10.8

With Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion the “Web Sharing” option has been removed from the System Settings, here’s how to get the Apache back running and pointing it to directories of your choice as root for your custom virtual localhosts.

Edit File /etc/apache2/httpd.conf → Go to line 477(in vim type :477) uncomment:

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Create new file /etc/apache2/users/yourusername.conf with the following content

Options Indexes MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

Edit /etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

DocumentRoot "/path/to/your/local/project/folder/"
ServerName web.local

Launch Apache first time

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist 

Start Apache

sudo apachectl start

Restart Apache, whenever you change one of the config files

sudo apachectl restart

Edit sudo vim /etc/hosts Add line:

127.0.0.1       web.local

Note: If you run into issues seeing your website in a browser check the /var/log/apache2/error_log