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Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by gen220 »

Its table of contents doesn't do it justice. this is a great deck! super dense and straightforward.

my tiny tip to contribute:

for those who could never be bothered to remember the ctrl-commands for traversing words, but are familiar with `vi`-style movements: you can go one step above the suggestion in this deck with `set -o vi`.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by scep12 »

This is an awesome deck. I'll be bookmarking this as a great resource to pass along.

Tangent: although the portability and consistency of PDFs is nice, I'd love a browser extension that gave me a nicer view of slides that were exported as a PDF. I find there's something more satisfying about discrete pagination vs continuous scroll for these types of things.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by maxioatic »

kayali wrote: post #2

Thanks, these look great. Is there a recorded talk for these slides?

It doesn't look like it. Here's the talk info from the conference: https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa19/presentation/mahesh... Other talks have links to their recordings.

It also doesn't seem to be in the full video playlist from the conference: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbRoZ5Rrl5ldJR-XU4xQx...

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by abhgh »

earthscienceman wrote: post #3

Wow. Well, I wish I would have known abut GNU parallel before I wrote that massive bash script a few years ago. Thanks for posting this.

Its a very handy utility. Sometimes when I am lazy to write proper multiprocessing support in my codes, I get some work started anyway by (1) quickly providing a basic CLI version of my code (2) throwing in a bunch of code-invocation commands in a file and calling GNU parallel on it.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by Brakenshire »

scep12 wrote: post #5

This is an awesome deck. I'll be bookmarking this as a great resource to pass along. Tangent: although the portability and consistency of PDFs is nice, I'd love a browser extension that gave me a nicer view of slides that were exported as a PDF. I find there's something more satisfying about discrete pagination vs continuous scroll for these types of things.

Are there any good parsers to convert pdf to html/epub? It would rely on the pdf being well structured.

Re: Linux Productivity Tools (2019) [pdf]

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Post by chrisseaton »

Brakenshire wrote: post #8
scep12 wrote: post #5

This is an awesome deck. I'll be bookmarking this as a great resource to pass along. Tangent: although the portability and consistency of PDFs is nice, I'd love a browser extension that gave me a nicer view of slides that were exported as a PDF. I find there's something more satisfying about discrete pagination vs continuous scroll for these types of things.

Are there any good parsers to convert pdf to html/epub? It would rely on the pdf being well structured.

Acrobat does very well in my experience.
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