Bits of string: computers

(§) Let’s say you have some music files on your computer and want to put them on your iPhone without using the app formerly known as iTunes: just get VLC on your phone. Works great! In these garbage days it is nice to see that the VLC people are still fighting the good fight.

(§) C is a purely functional language

(§) fd is a more chill way of doing find .. -exec. The following incantation will find all files with extension jpg and execute the convert utility to convert to (basename).png:

fd -e jpg -x convert {} {.}.png

(§) coreutils and moreutils both available in homebrew. OS X provides some coreutils but not all.

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