Compact WSL disk storage to reclaim space

If you use WSL a lot, you might have noticed something annoying where the disk space never seems to come back. You clean up a bunch of Docker images, delete a huge node_modules folder or drop some big datasets… and yet your drive is still just as full as before....

Disable URL escaping (ZSH & iTerm)

When using ZSH with oh-my-zsh and iTerm, I noticed some URLs or strings I pasted in were escaped with a \ on special characters. I wasn’t sure if it was an iTerm or a feature tied to oh-my-zsh but adding: DISABLE_MAGIC_FUNCTIONS=true to my .zshrc and then source the file again...

Make a command line shortcut for Sublime Text on macOS

I know it’s handy to open Sublime Text using Alfred but sometimes I really want to open Sublime via my favorite terminal using a simple command line. Here is how to do it: find / -name "subl" 2> /dev/null It’s usually located in /Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl sudo ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl...

WSL / Ubuntu / ZSH and Hyper Terminal

I’ve been using Windows Subsystem for Linux for quite a long now. What is Windows Subsystem for Linux? It’s basically to run a Linux environment in Windows OS Even if it wasn’t really stable at the beginning, a lot of improvements have been made. At work I have quite a...

Fonts I'm using for coding

Here is a modest list of the fonts I have been using along my 15 years of coding/programming. If you read those lines, I assume you are looking for a good font which is pleasant to code with, easy to read with distinct characters (ex: O / 0 or l...

Numeric Keypad not recognized in PuTTY

In case you logged into an SSH session and your numeric keypad is not working, follow these steps to fix the problem: 1) Go to Change Settings… -> Terminal -> Features 2) Check the option Disable application keypad mode 3) Apply Test your numeric keypad and it should work. Sometimes...

Sublime Text 3 & plugins I'm using

I discovered ST few years ago long before Atom, Brackets and Microsoft Visual Code. I was looking for a “more graphical” alternative to VIM and ST seemed to be the best match for me at this time. If you have used VIM quite a bit you should know about the...

Install ZSH Agnoster theme on Ubuntu 14.04