Command Line – Nick M Cummins

Command Line, Cross platform, Linux, macOS September 14, 2017 | Leave a Comment

Compressing PNG images with pngout, optipng, and advpng

Screenshot tools for Linux and macOS generally produce image files in the .png file format. PNG is a lossless compression format, meaning that it can be compressed without losing quality, which is unlike another commonly used image format, JPG. There are 3 command-line tools which can be used to compress PNG files, pngout, optipng, andContinue reading Compressing PNG images with pngout, optipng, and advpng

Command Line, Software, Technology April 13, 2016 | Leave a Comment

vim and spaces/tabs

vim is my favorite cli text editor. It doesn’t require much configuration, but if you edit code and use spaces in place of tabs, you probably want to add a line to your ~/.vimrc: set tabstop=2 softtabstop=2 expandtab shiftwidth=2 smarttab Of course, choose the number of spaces that suits your needs. 🙂