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Should You Add A Search Engine To Your Blog?

Whenever I see a blog that is meant to share general ideas or have an unpredictable list of content with a search bar, I ask myself "What is the end user expected to search for?". Take a tech blog that houses random thoughts of its writer and occasional tutorials, what is the reader meant ...

GIT: List Files With Merge Conflicts

Use the command below to list the path to all files with merge conflicts ...

Get The Metadata Header From A Markdown File Using PHP

In this short write-up I have put together PHP code that reads a markdown file, extracts its YAML-based meta header, allows you to modify it then updates the original markdown file with the changes. ...

GIT - Find The Number Of Files Changed

You can use the command below if you ever need to figure out how many files have changed before committing them. A good use case is when those changes are made using a script. ...

How To Start An HTTP Server In Python 2 & 3

Python provides a convenient way to start a simple HTTP server to serve up HTML files using the module in Python 2. In Python 3 this is done using the module. If you have both versions of Python install Python 3 might be available as `python3`` in which case us...