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4 Jul 2026 · kai.dev

Learn Core GNU Utilities

I believe that there are some things you just have to learn and memorize through repetition, and no shortcuts will help. One of those things is GNU Coreutils , a collection of standard shell commands that we all use every day. Do any of these commands look familiar to you? I'd bet most do: cat , chmod , cp , echo , ls , mv , pwd , rm , sort , touch , and many more. The coreutils collection/branding is 20+ years old, but the individual utitilies are 40+ years old. They have withstood the test of …

23 Jun 2026 · kai.dev

Follow the PATH, Part 3: Python Virtual Environments

If you've been writing Python code for any amount of time, you've probably used or heard that you should use virtual environments , also commonly referred to as a venv on the command line. A virtual environment is a set of scripts that enable you to toggle the virtual environment on and off in your current shell. There's only two scripts that you need to know about: activate -- activates the virtual environment by temporarily modifying your current shell's PATH , so that the virtual environment'…