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Stephen D. Butalla

Stephen D. Butalla

How to Make Your Data Visualizations Tell a Story

The Art and Science of Plot Creation in 15 Maxims

Jun 28

How to Make Your Data Visualizations Tell a Story

Jun 28

Stephen D. Butalla

Has your Mac been Hacked?

Open-source tools that can help spot malicious activity

Jun 4

Has your Mac been Hacked?

Jun 4

Stephen D. Butalla

The 6 Terminal Utilities That Save Me Serious Time and Simplify My Workflow

I’m always on the hunt for new terminal utilities that can make my life easier and improve my workflow. I’ve found out the hard way on more…

Jan 3

The 6 Terminal Utilities That Save Me Serious Time and Simplify My Workflow

Jan 3

Stephen D. Butalla

rsync: The most underrated command for copying files

A brief overview of its form and function, and a recipe list to get started

Dec 20, 2023

rsync: The most underrated command for copying files

Dec 20, 2023

Stephen D. Butalla

Getting the Most Out of Your Mac

The Definitive List of Open-Source Apps to Download in 2023

Aug 8, 2023

Getting the Most Out of Your Mac

Aug 8, 2023

Stephen D. Butalla

12 Terminal Shortcuts to Economize Your Workflow

The Definitive List of Shortcuts You’ll Use Daily

May 25, 2023

12 Terminal Shortcuts to Economize Your Workflow

May 25, 2023

Stephen D. Butalla

The Best Bash/Zshell Functions to Increase Your Productivity

The functions I use everyday to simplify tedious tasks and speed up my workflow

May 9, 2023

The Best Bash/Zshell Functions to Increase Your Productivity

May 9, 2023

Stephen D. Butalla

The Top 7 Linux/Unix Terminal-Based Games

If you’ve been too productive after reading my article The Top 7 Must-Have Command Line Tools to Boost Productivity then you need to take a…

Mar 17, 2023

The Top 7 Linux/Unix Terminal-Based Games

Mar 17, 2023

Stephen D. Butalla

The Most Useful Bash/Zshell Aliases I use Daily

I never truly realized the power of aliases until I was forced to work from a terminal exclusively (i.e., working on a remote server via…

Jan 20, 2023

The Most Useful Bash/Zshell Aliases I use Daily

Jan 20, 2023

Stephen D. Butalla

What really IS the difference between the source and dot commands in Bash/ZShell?

tl;dr: source, on most systems, is just a more readable alias for the dot command (.). Since the IEEE POSIX standards outline that the…

Jan 17, 2023

What really IS the difference between the source and dot commands in Bash/ZShell?

Jan 17, 2023

Stephen D. Butalla

Stephen D. Butalla

Ph.D. candidate in Physics, data scientist at heart. Currently working on GEM detector R&D for the CMS experiment at CERN and hunting for dark matter.

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