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Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
81 comments
1,035,383 views
March 18, 2010
My Job Interview at Google
235 comments
802,929 views
November 24, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 1 and 2: Analysis of Algorithms
86 comments
767,767 views
August 19, 2008
Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Calculations
36 comments
609,098 views
September 27, 2008
The Definitive Guide to Bash Command Line History
52 comments
590,428 views
February 18, 2008
Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Text Conversion and Substitution
61 comments
501,002 views
October 08, 2008
Working Productively in Bash's Vi Command Line Editing Mode (with Cheat Sheet)
64 comments
472,086 views
January 08, 2008
Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know
69 comments
420,665 views
June 30, 2009
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part I: surround.vim
37 comments
403,009 views
December 08, 2008
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part VI: nerd_tree.vim
20 comments
398,974 views
January 18, 2010
Learning JavaScript Programming Language through Video Lectures
56 comments
348,872 views
August 05, 2007
How to Extract Audio Tracks from YouTube Videos
60 comments
344,135 views
October 21, 2007
Must-Have Windows Software (or Windows Programs that I use)
138 comments
339,863 views
February 12, 2010
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer
75 comments
318,464 views
February 02, 2009
Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa
64 comments
316,680 views
January 13, 2010
I pushed 20 more of my projects to GitHub
7 comments
316,158 views
September 20, 2010
A HTTP Proxy Server in 20 Lines of node.js Code
57 comments
306,150 views
April 28, 2010
Turn any Linux computer into SOCKS5 proxy in one command
55 comments
264,759 views
May 06, 2010
Reflections on Node.js Knockout Competition
17 comments
259,062 views
August 30, 2010
Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part III: Selective Printing and Deleting of Certain Lines
38 comments
255,110 views
January 05, 2009
10 Awk Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls
40 comments
246,174 views
October 23, 2008
Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys
36 comments
245,389 views
March 09, 2012
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 11: Augmenting Data Structures
4 comments
223,778 views
September 29, 2008
Code Reuse in Google Chrome Browser
56 comments
217,033 views
September 05, 2008
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing
31 comments
215,539 views
February 25, 2009
Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures
16 comments
209,584 views
November 11, 2009
Set Operations in the Unix Shell
37 comments
207,295 views
October 13, 2008
Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part II: Text Conversion and Substitution
26 comments
206,012 views
December 13, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 3: Divide and Conquer
15 comments
203,329 views
August 21, 2008
Learning Python Programming Language Through Video Lectures
24 comments
199,425 views
March 06, 2008
Announcement: I am doing a startup - StackVM!
80 comments
197,298 views
July 21, 2010
Python Library for Google Search
167 comments
196,545 views
March 12, 2009
Screen VT100/ANSI Terminal Emulator Cheat Sheet
19 comments
193,764 views
September 21, 2007
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part III: matchit.vim
13 comments
188,738 views
February 05, 2009
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part IV: snipmate.vim
35 comments
186,879 views
August 04, 2009
ldd arbitrary code execution
55 comments
183,762 views
October 26, 2009
Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part III: Selective Deletion of Certain Lines and Special Applications
8 comments
183,032 views
January 14, 2009
Sed - UNIX Stream Editor - Cheat Sheet
14 comments
180,225 views
July 21, 2007
Awk, Nawk and GNU Awk Cheat Sheet
10 comments
176,474 views
July 13, 2007
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat
41 comments
172,962 views
February 17, 2009
The Next Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
20 comments
171,185 views
March 24, 2010
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 22 and 23: Cache Oblivious Algorithms
10 comments
171,022 views
July 13, 2009
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof
19 comments
169,627 views
December 23, 2009
Bash Emacs Editing Mode Cheat Sheet
23 comments
167,414 views
October 30, 2007
Downloading YouTube Videos with a Perl One-Liner
67 comments
161,136 views
July 15, 2007
Another Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
46 comments
147,636 views
April 20, 2010
The Four Polymorphisms in C++
26 comments
143,533 views
June 18, 2010
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 17, 18 and 19: Shortest Path Algorithms
15 comments
140,245 views
January 27, 2009
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part VII: ragtag.vim (formerly allml.vim)
12 comments
137,103 views
March 03, 2010
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part IV: String and Array Creation
21 comments
132,236 views
January 07, 2010
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part II: Line Numbering
12 comments
131,832 views
July 31, 2009
Secret Perl Operators
32 comments
131,088 views
November 30, 2009
We open-sourced 90 node.js modules at Browserling!
16 comments
125,689 views
September 05, 2011
My favorite regex of all time
68 comments
120,347 views
November 12, 2012
JavaScript: The Good Parts
6 comments
118,116 views
February 28, 2009
Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part II: Selective Printing of Certain Lines
7 comments
114,732 views
December 21, 2008
How to Upload YouTube Videos Programmatically
76 comments
111,109 views
July 31, 2007
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part V: Text conversion and substitution
29 comments
109,224 views
February 03, 2010
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 7 and 8: Hashing
2 comments
108,563 views
September 03, 2008
Perl Special Variable Cheat Sheet
2 comments
108,464 views
July 17, 2007
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 6: Order Statistics
8 comments
104,390 views
August 27, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 20 and 21: Parallel Algorithms
12 comments
103,458 views
March 07, 2009
On Functors
28 comments
101,538 views
May 17, 2010
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 15: Dynamic Programming
33 comments
100,980 views
November 27, 2008
The Busy Beaver Problem
22 comments
99,258 views
October 29, 2009
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 16: Greedy Algorithms
7 comments
97,832 views
December 04, 2008
Announcing my first e-book "Awk One-Liners Explained"
69 comments
97,397 views
June 20, 2011
Recursive Regular Expressions
20 comments
90,523 views
December 14, 2009
Update on Famous Awk One-Liners Explained: String and Array Creation
6 comments
87,847 views
February 09, 2009
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 4 and 5: Sorting
7 comments
84,232 views
August 25, 2008
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 5: Vector Spaces and Subspaces
10 comments
83,534 views
January 21, 2010
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 12: Skip Lists
17 comments
80,131 views
October 16, 2008
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 4: A=LU Factorization
6 comments
78,690 views
January 04, 2010
Ed - Unix Text Editor - Cheat Sheet
8 comments
77,994 views
August 02, 2007
Converting YouTube FLVs (Flash Videos) to a Better Format with ffmpeg
14 comments
77,108 views
July 19, 2007
I pushed 30 of my projects to GitHub
14 comments
75,773 views
December 08, 2009
Three Beautiful Quicksorts
12 comments
75,766 views
July 10, 2008
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part II: repeat.vim
13 comments
75,581 views
December 15, 2008
Yet Another Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
25 comments
75,004 views
June 02, 2010
How to delete cookies, cache and history in all major browsers
33 comments
74,523 views
December 01, 2010
Announcing Browserling!
39 comments
68,825 views
November 24, 2010
Designing Digg Picture Website in a Matter of Hours
42 comments
67,321 views
September 02, 2007
Downloading YouTube Videos with GNU Awk
52 comments
66,418 views
July 09, 2007
Deriving the Y-Combinator
17 comments
65,975 views
February 19, 2010
Working with git? These aliases will save you hours!
20 comments
65,587 views
May 20, 2011
Hacking Videos from Shmoocon
5 comments
65,145 views
June 24, 2008
Solving Google Treasure Hunt Puzzle 4: Prime Numbers
36 comments
64,913 views
June 06, 2008
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 6: Column Space and Null Space
13 comments
63,611 views
February 24, 2010
World's best introduction to sed
9 comments
62,456 views
October 07, 2011
On the Linear Time Algorithm For Finding Fibonacci Numbers
39 comments
61,904 views
July 07, 2009
Performance Tuning Best Practices for MySQL
8 comments
61,532 views
July 24, 2008
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part V: a.vim
10 comments
60,858 views
November 05, 2009
Bjarne Stroustrup's Video Lecture on C++0x Standard
8 comments
60,343 views
August 24, 2007
Perl's pack/unpack and printf Cheat Sheet
3 comments
60,316 views
August 08, 2007
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part III: Calculations
15 comments
59,807 views
November 03, 2009
Learning Python Design Patterns Through Video Lectures
4 comments
58,658 views
April 23, 2008
Traffic Accounting with Linux IPTables
15 comments
58,608 views
August 05, 2008
How to Save Time by Watching Videos at Higher Playback Speeds
43 comments
58,241 views
January 07, 2009
Designing RedditRiver.com Website
14 comments
57,406 views
March 25, 2008
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part I: Working with files
29 comments
57,072 views
June 01, 2012
Videos from Defcon 15 Hacker Conference
6 comments
56,765 views
May 01, 2008
Donald Knuth never told Steve Jobs that he was full of crap
12 comments
56,458 views
June 08, 2011
Announcing my second e-book "Sed One-Liners Explained"
19 comments
55,809 views
September 14, 2011
What Would John McCarthy Say if He Saw You Programming?
4 comments
55,535 views
December 03, 2008
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part V: Navigating around
14 comments
55,220 views
November 27, 2012
How Cybercriminals Steal Money
12 comments
55,126 views
July 17, 2008
Python Library for Google Translate
32 comments
54,808 views
September 28, 2009
Edsger Dijkstra - Discipline in Thought
20 comments
54,449 views
November 05, 2008
Announcing my third e-book "Perl One-Liners Explained"
20 comments
53,978 views
February 01, 2012
Picurls.com launches - Making of the Buzziest Picture Website Part II
10 comments
53,717 views
October 14, 2007
Writing a YouTube Video Downloader in VBScript
35 comments
52,406 views
August 04, 2007
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 13 and 14: Amortized Analysis and Self-Organizing Lists
2 comments
52,329 views
November 20, 2008
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 1: The Geometry of Linear Equations
7 comments
51,223 views
November 24, 2009
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 9 and 10: Search Trees
7 comments
50,566 views
September 23, 2008
Set Operations in the Unix Shell Simplified
9 comments
50,544 views
December 02, 2008
Genetic Algorithms 101
20 comments
50,392 views
November 23, 2007
Theorizing from Data by Peter Norvig (Video Lecture)
1 comment
49,454 views
May 13, 2008
Golfing the Extraction of IP Addresses from ifconfig
45 comments
48,918 views
August 31, 2008
GNU Coreutils Cheat Sheet
6 comments
48,837 views
September 04, 2012
A Perl Regular Expression That Matches Prime Numbers
12 comments
48,310 views
December 25, 2011
bithacks.h - bit hacks header file
13 comments
47,283 views
September 03, 2009
Analyzing Keyword Activity on Coding Horror
11 comments
45,990 views
April 08, 2008
Donald Knuth's First Computer
6 comments
44,790 views
February 26, 2010
Designing The Reddit Media Website
11 comments
44,689 views
August 20, 2007
Difference Between Edsger Dijkstra and Larry Wall
7 comments
44,428 views
November 07, 2008
Resolving DNS Asynchronously
22 comments
44,352 views
September 17, 2009
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part III: All about redirections
30 comments
43,613 views
August 23, 2012
How to write a simple TCP Server in Haskell
13 comments
43,420 views
January 27, 2011
Follow Hacker News from the Console
15 comments
43,118 views
July 07, 2008
About this blog
35 comments
42,907 views
July 09, 2007
Bash Redirections Cheat Sheet
9 comments
42,676 views
September 10, 2012
Restricting what programs a user can run on Windows via Group Policy Objects
17 comments
42,505 views
December 12, 2010
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 3: Matrix Multiplication and Inverse Matrices
7 comments
42,232 views
December 16, 2009
Plain Text Versions of Sed, ed and AWK Cheat Sheets
3 comments
41,689 views
August 22, 2007
TCP Traceroute
14 comments
41,674 views
February 24, 2013
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part VI: Selective printing and deleting of lines
19 comments
41,556 views
April 27, 2011
A Year of Blogging
12 comments
41,112 views
July 21, 2008
Visual Math Friday
19 comments
40,603 views
March 05, 2010
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 2: Elimination with Matrices
5 comments
39,759 views
December 03, 2009
50 ideas for the new catonmat.net website
29 comments
39,543 views
December 10, 2009
How to setup Stripe payments with node.js
13 comments
39,349 views
December 29, 2011
Util-Linux Cheat Sheet
8 comments
39,297 views
September 07, 2012
Christmas Tree in the Shell
8 comments
38,824 views
December 25, 2008
TCP Port Scanner in Bash
21 comments
38,672 views
August 28, 2012
Node.js modules you should know about: request
16 comments
38,633 views
December 06, 2011
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part II: Working with strings
13 comments
37,137 views
July 02, 2012
Video Lecture: From Nand to Tetris in 12 Steps
5 comments
36,967 views
May 20, 2008
StackVM Demo Video #2
12 comments
36,830 views
August 10, 2010
A proof that Unix utility "sed" is Turing complete
5 comments
36,796 views
April 17, 2012
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part VII: Handy Regular Expressions
23 comments
36,653 views
November 10, 2011
How to Steal a Botnet (Video Lecture Summary)
6 comments
36,585 views
January 23, 2010
Follow Reddit from the Console
12 comments
36,091 views
July 14, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #4: Model-View-Controller MVC Song
4 comments
33,861 views
April 18, 2008
Feedburner Graphs Suck, or How to Generate Nice Graphs for Feedburner
6 comments
33,654 views
November 17, 2009
Node.js modules you should know about: dnode
3 comments
32,768 views
December 01, 2011
Growing a Language by Guy Steele
4 comments
31,344 views
April 01, 2008
The Making of picurls.com, the Popurls for Pictures, Part I
10 comments
31,171 views
September 15, 2007
How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for my Browserling startup
38 comments
31,089 views
July 26, 2011
Introduction to Perl one-liners
4 comments
30,998 views
May 07, 2012
Announcing Testling - Automated Cross-Browser JavaScript Testing
2 comments
30,806 views
October 24, 2011
Musical Geek Friday #5: God Wrote in Lisp (The Eternal Flame)
6 comments
30,508 views
April 25, 2008
Announcing perl1line.txt - Collection of Handy Perl Scripts
3 comments
30,211 views
November 14, 2011
Python Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
2 comments
30,054 views
July 26, 2008
How Reddit Top and Hacker Top Programs Were Made
9 comments
29,562 views
July 23, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #1: Crypto
14 comments
29,303 views
March 28, 2008
Introducing node-lazy - lazy lists for node.js
5 comments
28,680 views
October 14, 2010
Reflections on Node.js Knockout Competition 2011
5 comments
28,222 views
August 29, 2011
A TCP Proxy in Perl
11 comments
27,715 views
March 31, 2011
Musical Geek Friday #3: Code Monkey
8 comments
27,015 views
April 11, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #15: Kill -9
1 comment
26,823 views
November 21, 2008
Video Lecture On My Favorite DBMS - SQLite
5 comments
25,897 views
April 15, 2008
Creating a Video Downloader Application using OpenSource Tools (Part I)
3 comments
25,833 views
July 30, 2007
Two Years of Blogging
30 comments
25,392 views
July 27, 2009
Graduated with a B.Sc. Degree in Physics
25 comments
25,301 views
July 02, 2008
The `sudo chroot /chroot su - user -c "cmd args"` trick
27 comments
24,950 views
December 24, 2012
Node.js modules you should know about: everyauth
8 comments
24,842 views
January 03, 2012
A Real Turing Machine Running The Busy Beaver
4 comments
24,501 views
March 29, 2010
Python Library for Google Sets
5 comments
24,493 views
August 13, 2009
Node.js modules you should know about: redis
0 comment
24,407 views
December 13, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: semver
2 comments
24,190 views
December 15, 2011
Python Library for Searching Adwords
9 comments
23,607 views
April 15, 2009
How to Read Reddit the Fanatic Programmer Way
9 comments
23,548 views
July 22, 2008
Node.js modules you should know about: socket.io
0 comment
23,525 views
December 12, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: optimist
2 comments
23,441 views
December 02, 2011
Musical Geek Friday #14: Alice and Bob
3 comments
23,359 views
August 22, 2008
Node.js modules you should know about: lazy
4 comments
23,226 views
December 05, 2011
Announcing Testling-CI
1 comment
23,180 views
January 16, 2013
Creating a Video Downloader Application using OpenSource Tools (Part II)
11 comments
22,626 views
August 03, 2007
Video Lecture on Best Practices in JavaScript Library Design
1 comment
22,274 views
August 28, 2007
The curious case of the DES algorithm
13 comments
22,049 views
April 19, 2012
My First Interview (by Muhammad Saleem)
0 comment
21,448 views
September 07, 2007
Revisiting GNU Awk YouTube Video Downloader
9 comments
21,388 views
August 29, 2008
ASCII bit trick to convert lowercase to uppercase and back
10 comments
21,150 views
October 22, 2012
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part IV: Working with history
15 comments
21,143 views
October 12, 2012
Node.js modules you should know about: ntwitter
6 comments
20,999 views
December 09, 2011
Musical Geek Friday #6: The Day the Routers Died
3 comments
20,808 views
May 09, 2008
Node.js modules you should know about: read
11 comments
20,229 views
December 08, 2011
Musical Geek Friday #12: Every OS Sucks
13 comments
19,504 views
July 25, 2008
Announcing Tunnels for Browserling
4 comments
19,270 views
August 17, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: express
5 comments
18,971 views
December 14, 2011
Announcing real IEs for Browserling
16 comments
18,642 views
May 22, 2012
Why chmod text modes are more powerful than octal
14 comments
18,025 views
February 28, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: hashish
4 comments
18,014 views
December 07, 2011
A few words about Digpicz.com
8 comments
17,896 views
September 04, 2007
Musical Geek Friday #17: Hax That Fsck
12 comments
17,858 views
February 06, 2009
Three Years of Blogging
24 comments
17,841 views
July 06, 2010
Node.js modules you should know about: jsonstream
1 comment
17,644 views
December 22, 2011
Announcing dedicated servers for Browserling
0 comment
17,386 views
March 01, 2012
Announcing Headless Testling
3 comments
17,383 views
November 07, 2011
Musical Geek Friday #8: The Bill Gates Song
2 comments
17,216 views
June 06, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #16: Don't Copy That Floppy
2 comments
17,172 views
November 28, 2008
How to keep track of who's talking about you
4 comments
17,166 views
January 27, 2010
Musical Geek Friday #13: Song For Hackers and Crackers
3 comments
16,683 views
August 15, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #2: Leech Axss is Coming at You!
1 comment
16,641 views
April 04, 2008
Browserling reaches 100 paying customers!
9 comments
16,269 views
May 31, 2012
Browserling reaches 200 paying customers!
6 comments
16,158 views
October 16, 2012
Musical Geek Friday #10: TECO and DDT
6 comments
16,020 views
July 11, 2008
Revealing Reddit Score for Just Posted Links with FireFox and GreaseMonkey
4 comments
15,928 views
August 26, 2007
How to write Testling-CI tests
2 comments
15,446 views
January 18, 2013
Musical Geek Friday #7: Just One More Hack
5 comments
15,237 views
May 30, 2008
Searching and Mining Open Source Code from the Web
2 comments
15,159 views
July 16, 2008
Visualization of Regular Expression Character Classes
4 comments
15,130 views
February 25, 2013
Four Years of Blogging
15 comments
14,497 views
August 03, 2011
Musical Geek Friday #9: The Free Software Song
3 comments
14,125 views
June 27, 2008
Monthly Catonmat Geek T-Shirt #2: a.pipe(b).pipe(a)
3 comments
14,123 views
November 01, 2012
Idea for later - a 1:1 teaching meetup network
12 comments
14,091 views
January 21, 2013
Musical Geek Friday #11: The BitTorrent Song
3 comments
13,793 views
July 18, 2008
Five Years of Blogging
22 comments
12,730 views
July 14, 2012
Node.js modules you should know about: procstreams
1 comment
12,689 views
January 24, 2012
Browserling now has Internet Explorer 10!
6 comments
12,619 views
January 22, 2013
Node.js modules you should know about: cradle
4 comments
12,052 views
December 16, 2011
I published another 10 of my projects to GitHub
3 comments
10,774 views
April 11, 2013
Announcing Monthly Catonmat Geek T-Shirts
1 comment
10,504 views
October 01, 2012
A Simple LD_PRELOAD Tutorial
2 comments
10,476 views
March 31, 2013
A quine in node.js
6 comments
9,922 views
May 01, 2012
How Browserling Works [art]
4 comments
9,596 views
January 29, 2012
Browserling has a new design!
7 comments
9,196 views
January 16, 2012
A poem about division from Hacker's Delight
1 comment
8,881 views
April 21, 2012
A Simple LD_PRELOAD Tutorial, Part 2
10 comments
4,922 views
May 31, 2013
Review of Clickatell's SMS Service
3 comments
2,579 views
April 05, 2012
Interview with me and James Halliday (by David Weekly)
1 comment
923 views
March 20, 2011
Interview with Peteris Krumins (by Michael Matuzak)
0 comment
848 views
October 10, 2010

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