// all writing · 19 entries

Everything written so far.

Bash: Defensive Wizardry

Part 11 of the bash crash course: making scripts trustworthy — the four-letter ward set -euo pipefail, trap for cleanup magic, and bash -x for seeing what the spell actually casts.

Wizardry of Bash · 11

bashdebuggingrobustness

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: Forks in the Road

Part 07 of the bash crash course: conditionals — if/elif/else, the test brackets and their gotchas, file existence checks, and case, the most readable spell in the book.

Wizardry of Bash · 07

bashifcaseconditionals

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: Jobs & Signals

Part 12 of the bash crash course: process control — background jobs with &, the Ctrl-Z suspend dance, fg/bg/jobs, kill and the signal ladder, nice, and nohup for spells that outlive their summoner.

Wizardry of Bash · 12

bashjobssignalskill

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: Labelled Boxes

Part 06 of the bash crash course: variables and quoting rules (the #1 source of beginner bugs), command substitution, environment variables, and how $PATH decides which spells you can cast.

Wizardry of Bash · 06

bashvariablesquoting

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: On Every Machine

Part 02 of the bash crash course: getting a real shell on Windows (Git Bash vs WSL), what macOS's zsh switch means, and the keyboard habits — Tab, Ctrl-R, history — that make you fast.

Wizardry of Bash · 02

bashwindowswslsetup

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: Pipes & Plumbing

Part 05 of the bash crash course: stdin, stdout, stderr — and how pipes and redirection turn twenty small commands into an infinite assembly line.

Wizardry of Bash · 05

bashpipesredirection

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: Text Alchemy

Part 10 of the bash crash course: the text-processing battery — sed find-and-replace, awk column surgery, cut, sort, uniq, tr — and the pipelines that glue them into one-liners of mass productivity.

Wizardry of Bash · 10

bashsedawktext-processing

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: The Custom Grimoire

Part 13 of the bash crash course: making everything permanent — the .bashrc file, aliases, functions you keep forever, and a two-line prompt upgrade that saves you ten questions a day.

Wizardry of Bash · 13

bashbashrcdotfiles

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: The Hunters

Part 04 of the bash crash course: a deep dive into grep and find — searching text inside files and files inside machines — plus xargs, the spell that chains the hunt to the kill.

Wizardry of Bash · 04

bashgrepfind

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: The Loop

Part 08 of the bash crash course: loops — for over globs and lists, while read over lines, C-style counting, break/continue, and the batch moves that turn an hour of clicking into one line.

Wizardry of Bash · 08

bashloopsforwhile

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: The Prompt

Part 01 of a 15-part bash crash course: what a shell actually is, how to read the prompt, your first commands, and how to summon the ancient tome (the man page) when you forget the words.

Wizardry of Bash · 01

bashshellbasics

Sep 29, 2026 · 5 min

Bash: The Quest Board

Part 15, the finale of the bash crash course: six complete capstone scripts — bulk renamer, rotating backup, site monitor, project scaffolder, disk hunter, and a terminal quiz game — each built from the previous fourteen parts.

Wizardry of Bash · 15

bashprojectsfinale

Sep 29, 2026 · 6 min

Bash: The Spell Factory

Part 09 of the bash crash course: packaging logic into functions, feeding them arguments, returning codes instead of values, and the src-the-file trick that turns your terminal into a workshop.

Wizardry of Bash · 09

bashfunctionsscripts

Sep 29, 2026 · 5 min

Bash: The Spellbook

Part 03 of the bash crash course: the everyday file commands — ls, cd, cp, mv, rm and friends — plus glob wildcards, the closest thing computing has to actual magic.

Wizardry of Bash · 03

bashcommandsfiles

Sep 29, 2026 · 4 min

Bash: The Wider Realm

Part 14 of the bash crash course: bash beyond your machine — SSH and keys, cron schedules, git hooks, and CI pipelines. The payoff chapter: why everything before this was worth it.

Wizardry of Bash · 14

bashsshcronci

Sep 29, 2026 · 5 min

Rusty's Type

Part 03 of the Rust crash course: every primitive type (integers, floats, bool, char, tuples, arrays), variables and shadowing, constants vs statics, and custom types with structs and enums — with code and output at every step.

Learning Rust · 03

rustbasicstypes

Sep 29, 2026 · 15 min

Hello, The Boring Edit

Welcome to The Boring Edit — a calm corner of the internet where I document what I'm learning, building, reading and thinking about. Here's what lives here and why it exists.

metawriting

Sep 28, 2026 · 4 min

Introduction to Rust: why it exists, who runs on it, and how to start today

Why Rust exists, the memory problems it eliminates, which big organisations and projects run on it, how to install it in minutes, and the communities that support it.

Learning Rust · 01

rustbasicsgetting-started

Sep 28, 2026 · 5 min

Rusty's Hello World!

A detailed tour of Rust's printing macros — print!, println!, eprint!, eprintln!, write! and format! — plus the formatting engine: positional and named args, padding, radix, and Display vs Debug with code-output examples.

Learning Rust · 02

rustbasicsmacros

Sep 28, 2026 · 7 min