When you set up a dual-boot system, one of the most common hurdles is managing the boot process — specifically, selecting which operating system to boot into. This is where GRUB (Grand Unified Bootloader) steps in. If you’ve ever faced the hassle of relying on third-party tools like EasyBCD to …

Do you remember the meme, which goes, “I’m connecting to my WiFi using terminal, my friends…HACKER”? I have never seen anyone doing that in real life. But nowadays I have a strong reason to do that in the presence or absence of my friends. For some strange reason, my desktop …

I recently started seeing a lot of posts related to illegal web scarping by AI companies, all thanks to frequency illusion. In this blog, we’ll discuss the basics of web scraping and let’s learn how to scrape things from the web. Legality Before jumping straight into the weeds, …

Plot A few days ago, I was trying to set up an angular project. The goal was simple, that was to install angular-cli with npm or yarn. Easy-peasy. But, the bad omen struck. Angular is a careful, robust, feature-rich framework. When I say careful, it’s very specific in many ways. The command …

Have you ever encountered the above error? It’s pretty annoying, innit? Generally, it’s either called initramfs or busybox error. It typically indicates an issue during the boot process of a Linux system. Initramfs (initial RAM file system) is a temporary file system that is loaded into …

GitHub Pages or gh-pages is one of the easiest ways to deploy static sites. But, did you know that you can also easily deploy a simple React app on GitHub Pages? Without any further ado, let’s get started. First, install gh-pages on the React app by typing: npm install gh-pages --save-dev …

Mastodon is a Twitter-like micro-blogging platform. There are a lot of tweaks that you can make on Masto, as it’s free and open-source software. It provides you with a way to verify your websites on the platform in an indie web-style way. What Does It Mean? Imagine you have a personal blog or …

A few days ago, I was working on a side project and wanted to hide a few files from Git. In the process, .gitignore caught my eye, and I started digging deeper into it. .gitignore ignores files or directories but doesn’t hide them, but how? Let’s investigate! A .gitignore file is used to specify …

scp is a secure way of transferring files from one computer to another. It uses ssh to transfer files, safely and securely. In order to transfer files from one computer to another, type the following command: scp /location/of/the/file username@ip_address_of_remote_computer:/location For example: scp …

In this tutorial, let’s learn some basics of tmux, to get started right away. What Is Tmux Tmux is a window multiplexer, which allows you to have multiple terminal sessions within a single terminal window or to detach and reattach sessions. To install tmux, just type the following command: …