Perhaps you’re inspired by this blog to go traveling for a while, or you’re just curious what it would take, or maybe you’re already planning a trip, or you suffer from severe insomnia. In any case, I thought some people might be interested in what we did to prepare for our trip. First off, we [...]

There are a million pages on the web that describe how to make your bash prompt nice and colorful. Most just hard-code the color sequences, which can break if you use a weird terminal. Until today I used some clever code I stole from somewhere that used tput to get the color codes from the [...]