scripting News and Articles

Even small changes in a web page can improve the browsing experience. Your preferred web browser provides all the tools you need to inject JavaScript to adapt the page. You just need a browser with its debugging tools, some knowledge of scripting, and the browser extension Tampermonkey.

The pre-commit framework lets you automatically manage and maintain your Git hook scripts to deliver better Git commits.

The Minuimus Perl script helps you save disk space by reducing the file size of PDF files with just a few commands.

In the right circumstances, apt-clone can be a simple option for cloning your Debian system.

The complexity of modern distributions offers many potential attack vectors for malware. Lynis lets you find these vulnerabilities before an attacker does.

With one line of Bash code, Pete scrapes the web and builds a desktop notification app to get the daily snow report.

Broken links can wreak havoc in directory structures. This article shows you how to use scripts to avoid having your links lead to a dead end.

Shell scripts are often written for simplicity rather than efficiency. A closer look at the processes can lead to easy optimization.

At a party with 23 guests, having two guests with the same birthday in more than 50 percent of cases may sound fairly unlikely to amateur mathematicians. Armed with statistical methods, party animal Mike Schilli sets out to prove this claim.