There is no doubt that Telegram is the best alternative compared to other messaging apps like WhatsApp; it’s free, offers way more features, keeps your messages securely on servers, provides end-to-end encryption, and focuses on data privacy at its core. Let me tell you a
WhatsApp is a popular messaging app without any doubt, having been around since 2009 and gaining quite a name when it was acquired by Meta (formerly known as Facebook) in 2014. Since the beginning, it has always been more focused on smartphone users, and until
A friend of mine has a YouTube channel and recently asked me to find a tool for creating subtitles. His main language is English, but he wants to offer other languages like Spanish, Hindi, etc. as subtitles for a wider audience. After searching for a
Norka is a GUI text editor that I find to be the best alternative to Gedit or other GUI text editors on Linux. Wondering why? Then hear me out: it’s free and open-source (which it definitely should be), but it offers an auto-save feature that
Once you have completed your assignment on a big software project (with or without a team), have you ever thought about how much code in different programming languages has been used in the project? If the project is hosted on GitHub, you might catch a
Linux is popular for many reasons, one of which is its open-source nature and wide range of command availability. I’m very fond of its command-line usage instead of GUI, but sometimes, using different commands and remembering the options they have becomes quite troubling for me,
I assume you are aware of jq (a JSON processor to parse and manipulate JSON data right from your command line), and recently we have also written an article on jaq (a superset of jq with additional features and improved performance), but today we bring
I’ve used a variety of terminal multiplexers, such as Tmux for CLI and Terminator, Wrap, Wave, and Tilix for GUI. Each of them has a unique flavor to offer, but to be honest, none of them have fully satisfied me, not at least after knowing
The bat is a modern command-line program written in the Rust programming language, and I can confidently say it’s a great drop-in replacement for our beloved cat command. If you’re wondering why I’m hyping this so much and what it has to offer you that
If you’ve been using Linux for a decent amount of time, you might now realize that dotfiles on Linux are hidden files usually used for storing configuration for the system or software, e.g., “.bashrc“, “.zshrc”, “.vimrc“, “.git“, just to name a few. There has been
The “du” utility is quite useful for estimating and summarizing file and directory usage. However, a new user may find it overwhelming, in which case they can turn to a new tool named Dust. Dust (“du” + “rust” = “dust“) gives a fresh look to
Atuin is a steroid for your traditional shell history, using SQLite as a database to record each user-issued command along with additional context like exit status, hostname, session, cwd, etc. It also offers a free public server or the option to self-host to sync your
