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Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
72 comments
1,028,370 views
March 18, 2010
My Job Interview at Google
234 comments
793,845 views
November 24, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 1 and 2: Analysis of Algorithms
86 comments
762,895 views
August 19, 2008
Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Calculations
36 comments
604,779 views
September 27, 2008
The Definitive Guide to Bash Command Line History
52 comments
585,865 views
February 18, 2008
Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing, Numbering and Text Conversion and Substitution
61 comments
494,504 views
October 08, 2008
Working Productively in Bash's Vi Command Line Editing Mode (with Cheat Sheet)
64 comments
468,252 views
January 08, 2008
Low Level Bit Hacks You Absolutely Must Know
69 comments
416,542 views
June 30, 2009
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part I: surround.vim
37 comments
401,106 views
December 08, 2008
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part VI: nerd_tree.vim
20 comments
397,336 views
January 18, 2010
Learning JavaScript Programming Language through Video Lectures
56 comments
347,739 views
August 05, 2007
How to Extract Audio Tracks from YouTube Videos
60 comments
342,731 views
October 21, 2007
Must-Have Windows Software (or Windows Programs that I use)
138 comments
336,435 views
February 12, 2010
I pushed 20 more of my projects to GitHub
7 comments
315,776 views
September 20, 2010
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer
75 comments
315,765 views
February 02, 2009
Using Fibonacci Numbers to Convert from Miles to Kilometers and Vice Versa
64 comments
315,100 views
January 13, 2010
A HTTP Proxy Server in 20 Lines of node.js Code
56 comments
299,824 views
April 28, 2010
Turn any Linux computer into SOCKS5 proxy in one command
55 comments
259,319 views
May 06, 2010
Reflections on Node.js Knockout Competition
17 comments
258,719 views
August 30, 2010
Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part III: Selective Printing and Deleting of Certain Lines
35 comments
249,668 views
January 05, 2009
10 Awk Tips, Tricks and Pitfalls
40 comments
241,812 views
October 23, 2008
Here is why vim uses the hjkl keys as arrow keys
36 comments
240,612 views
March 09, 2012
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 11: Augmenting Data Structures
4 comments
223,374 views
September 29, 2008
Code Reuse in Google Chrome Browser
56 comments
216,154 views
September 05, 2008
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part I: File Spacing
31 comments
213,260 views
February 25, 2009
Set Operations in the Unix Shell
37 comments
205,922 views
October 13, 2008
Summary of all the MIT Introduction to Algorithms lectures
16 comments
205,765 views
November 11, 2009
Famous Awk One-Liners Explained, Part II: Text Conversion and Substitution
26 comments
203,466 views
December 13, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 3: Divide and Conquer
15 comments
202,612 views
August 21, 2008
Learning Python Programming Language Through Video Lectures
24 comments
198,334 views
March 06, 2008
Announcement: I am doing a startup - StackVM!
80 comments
196,940 views
July 21, 2010
Python Library for Google Search
167 comments
194,421 views
March 12, 2009
Screen VT100/ANSI Terminal Emulator Cheat Sheet
19 comments
192,531 views
September 21, 2007
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part III: matchit.vim
13 comments
187,810 views
February 05, 2009
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part IV: snipmate.vim
35 comments
185,902 views
August 04, 2009
ldd arbitrary code execution
55 comments
182,902 views
October 26, 2009
Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part III: Selective Deletion of Certain Lines and Special Applications
8 comments
181,600 views
January 14, 2009
Sed - UNIX Stream Editor - Cheat Sheet
14 comments
177,893 views
July 21, 2007
Awk, Nawk and GNU Awk Cheat Sheet
10 comments
175,193 views
July 13, 2007
The Next Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
20 comments
170,632 views
March 24, 2010
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 22 and 23: Cache Oblivious Algorithms
10 comments
170,359 views
July 13, 2009
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat
41 comments
169,600 views
February 17, 2009
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: lsof
19 comments
167,320 views
December 23, 2009
Bash Emacs Editing Mode Cheat Sheet
23 comments
165,646 views
October 30, 2007
Downloading YouTube Videos with a Perl One-Liner
67 comments
160,217 views
July 15, 2007
Another Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
46 comments
147,320 views
April 20, 2010
The Four Polymorphisms in C++
25 comments
140,450 views
June 18, 2010
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 17, 18 and 19: Shortest Path Algorithms
15 comments
139,152 views
January 27, 2009
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part VII: ragtag.vim (formerly allml.vim)
12 comments
136,406 views
March 03, 2010
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part IV: String and Array Creation
21 comments
131,115 views
January 07, 2010
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part II: Line Numbering
12 comments
130,837 views
July 31, 2009
Secret Perl Operators
32 comments
129,564 views
November 30, 2009
We open-sourced 90 node.js modules at Browserling!
16 comments
124,401 views
September 05, 2011
JavaScript: The Good Parts
6 comments
117,745 views
February 28, 2009
My favorite regex of all time
68 comments
114,655 views
November 12, 2012
Famous Sed One-Liners Explained, Part II: Selective Printing of Certain Lines
7 comments
112,436 views
December 21, 2008
How to Upload YouTube Videos Programmatically
76 comments
109,800 views
July 31, 2007
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 7 and 8: Hashing
2 comments
108,108 views
September 03, 2008
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part V: Text conversion and substitution
24 comments
107,557 views
February 03, 2010
Perl Special Variable Cheat Sheet
2 comments
107,308 views
July 17, 2007
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 6: Order Statistics
8 comments
103,967 views
August 27, 2008
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 20 and 21: Parallel Algorithms
12 comments
102,906 views
March 07, 2009
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 15: Dynamic Programming
33 comments
100,161 views
November 27, 2008
On Functors
28 comments
99,782 views
May 17, 2010
The Busy Beaver Problem
22 comments
98,316 views
October 29, 2009
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 16: Greedy Algorithms
7 comments
97,057 views
December 04, 2008
Announcing my first e-book "Awk One-Liners Explained"
69 comments
95,656 views
June 20, 2011
Recursive Regular Expressions
20 comments
89,166 views
December 14, 2009
Update on Famous Awk One-Liners Explained: String and Array Creation
6 comments
87,009 views
February 09, 2009
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 4 and 5: Sorting
7 comments
83,839 views
August 25, 2008
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 5: Vector Spaces and Subspaces
10 comments
82,294 views
January 21, 2010
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lecture 12: Skip Lists
17 comments
79,504 views
October 16, 2008
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 4: A=LU Factorization
6 comments
78,184 views
January 04, 2010
Ed - Unix Text Editor - Cheat Sheet
8 comments
77,054 views
August 02, 2007
Converting YouTube FLVs (Flash Videos) to a Better Format with ffmpeg
14 comments
76,757 views
July 19, 2007
I pushed 30 of my projects to GitHub
14 comments
75,190 views
December 08, 2009
Three Beautiful Quicksorts
12 comments
75,107 views
July 10, 2008
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part II: repeat.vim
13 comments
74,945 views
December 15, 2008
Yet Another Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained
25 comments
74,642 views
June 02, 2010
How to delete cookies, cache and history in all major browsers
33 comments
71,442 views
December 01, 2010
Announcing Browserling!
38 comments
67,549 views
November 24, 2010
Designing Digg Picture Website in a Matter of Hours
42 comments
67,064 views
September 02, 2007
Downloading YouTube Videos with GNU Awk
52 comments
65,443 views
July 09, 2007
Deriving the Y-Combinator
17 comments
65,346 views
February 19, 2010
Working with git? These aliases will save you hours!
20 comments
64,868 views
May 20, 2011
Solving Google Treasure Hunt Puzzle 4: Prime Numbers
35 comments
63,773 views
June 06, 2008
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 6: Column Space and Null Space
13 comments
63,108 views
February 24, 2010
Hacking Videos from Shmoocon
5 comments
62,735 views
June 24, 2008
On the Linear Time Algorithm For Finding Fibonacci Numbers
39 comments
61,390 views
July 07, 2009
Performance Tuning Best Practices for MySQL
8 comments
60,899 views
July 24, 2008
World's best introduction to sed
9 comments
60,887 views
October 07, 2011
Vim Plugins You Should Know About, Part V: a.vim
10 comments
60,208 views
November 05, 2009
Bjarne Stroustrup's Video Lecture on C++0x Standard
8 comments
60,063 views
August 24, 2007
Perl's pack/unpack and printf Cheat Sheet
3 comments
59,998 views
August 08, 2007
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part III: Calculations
15 comments
58,869 views
November 03, 2009
Learning Python Design Patterns Through Video Lectures
4 comments
57,997 views
April 23, 2008
Traffic Accounting with Linux IPTables
15 comments
57,387 views
August 05, 2008
How to Save Time by Watching Videos at Higher Playback Speeds
43 comments
57,179 views
January 07, 2009
Videos from Defcon 15 Hacker Conference
6 comments
56,405 views
May 01, 2008
Designing RedditRiver.com Website
14 comments
56,382 views
March 25, 2008
Donald Knuth never told Steve Jobs that he was full of crap
12 comments
55,604 views
June 08, 2011
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part I: Working with files
29 comments
55,436 views
June 01, 2012
What Would John McCarthy Say if He Saw You Programming?
4 comments
55,138 views
December 03, 2008
How Cybercriminals Steal Money
12 comments
54,802 views
July 17, 2008
Announcing my second e-book "Sed One-Liners Explained"
19 comments
54,721 views
September 14, 2011
Python Library for Google Translate
32 comments
53,995 views
September 28, 2009
Edsger Dijkstra - Discipline in Thought
20 comments
53,952 views
November 05, 2008
Picurls.com launches - Making of the Buzziest Picture Website Part II
10 comments
53,452 views
October 14, 2007
Announcing my third e-book "Perl One-Liners Explained"
19 comments
52,472 views
February 01, 2012
Writing a YouTube Video Downloader in VBScript
35 comments
51,958 views
August 04, 2007
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 13 and 14: Amortized Analysis and Self-Organizing Lists
2 comments
51,914 views
November 20, 2008
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part V: Navigating around
14 comments
51,132 views
November 27, 2012
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 1: The Geometry of Linear Equations
7 comments
50,455 views
November 24, 2009
MIT's Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 9 and 10: Search Trees
7 comments
50,065 views
September 23, 2008
Set Operations in the Unix Shell Simplified
9 comments
50,036 views
December 02, 2008
Genetic Algorithms 101
20 comments
49,818 views
November 23, 2007
Theorizing from Data by Peter Norvig (Video Lecture)
1 comment
49,215 views
May 13, 2008
Golfing the Extraction of IP Addresses from ifconfig
45 comments
48,203 views
August 31, 2008
GNU Coreutils Cheat Sheet
6 comments
48,087 views
September 04, 2012
A Perl Regular Expression That Matches Prime Numbers
12 comments
47,676 views
December 25, 2011
bithacks.h - bit hacks header file
13 comments
46,931 views
September 03, 2009
Analyzing Keyword Activity on Coding Horror
11 comments
44,929 views
April 08, 2008
Designing The Reddit Media Website
11 comments
44,317 views
August 20, 2007
Donald Knuth's First Computer
6 comments
44,209 views
February 26, 2010
Difference Between Edsger Dijkstra and Larry Wall
7 comments
44,007 views
November 07, 2008
Resolving DNS Asynchronously
22 comments
43,351 views
September 17, 2009
Follow Hacker News from the Console
15 comments
42,753 views
July 07, 2008
How to write a simple TCP Server in Haskell
13 comments
42,687 views
January 27, 2011
About this blog
35 comments
42,490 views
July 09, 2007
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 3: Matrix Multiplication and Inverse Matrices
7 comments
41,746 views
December 16, 2009
Bash Redirections Cheat Sheet
7 comments
41,686 views
September 10, 2012
Plain Text Versions of Sed, ed and AWK Cheat Sheets
3 comments
41,396 views
August 22, 2007
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part III: All about redirections
30 comments
41,324 views
August 23, 2012
A Year of Blogging
12 comments
40,976 views
July 21, 2008
Restricting what programs a user can run on Windows via Group Policy Objects
17 comments
40,609 views
December 12, 2010
Visual Math Friday
19 comments
40,205 views
March 05, 2010
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part VI: Selective printing and deleting of lines
19 comments
39,846 views
April 27, 2011
MIT Linear Algebra, Lecture 2: Elimination with Matrices
5 comments
39,239 views
December 03, 2009
50 ideas for the new catonmat.net website
29 comments
39,216 views
December 10, 2009
Util-Linux Cheat Sheet
8 comments
38,777 views
September 07, 2012
Christmas Tree in the Shell
8 comments
38,552 views
December 25, 2008
How to setup Stripe payments with node.js
13 comments
38,191 views
December 29, 2011
TCP Port Scanner in Bash
20 comments
37,837 views
August 28, 2012
Node.js modules you should know about: request
16 comments
37,447 views
December 06, 2011
StackVM Demo Video #2
12 comments
36,661 views
August 10, 2010
Video Lecture: From Nand to Tetris in 12 Steps
5 comments
36,581 views
May 20, 2008
TCP Traceroute
9 comments
36,539 views
February 24, 2013
A proof that Unix utility "sed" is Turing complete
5 comments
36,477 views
April 17, 2012
How to Steal a Botnet (Video Lecture Summary)
6 comments
36,255 views
January 23, 2010
Famous Perl One-Liners Explained, Part VII: Handy Regular Expressions
23 comments
35,807 views
November 10, 2011
Follow Reddit from the Console
12 comments
35,801 views
July 14, 2008
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part II: Working with strings
12 comments
35,085 views
July 02, 2012
Musical Geek Friday #4: Model-View-Controller MVC Song
4 comments
33,697 views
April 18, 2008
Feedburner Graphs Suck, or How to Generate Nice Graphs for Feedburner
6 comments
33,149 views
November 17, 2009
Node.js modules you should know about: dnode
3 comments
32,151 views
December 01, 2011
Growing a Language by Guy Steele
4 comments
31,124 views
April 01, 2008
The Making of picurls.com, the Popurls for Pictures, Part I
10 comments
30,954 views
September 15, 2007
How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for my Browserling startup
38 comments
30,669 views
July 26, 2011
Announcing Testling - Automated Cross-Browser JavaScript Testing
2 comments
30,423 views
October 24, 2011
Musical Geek Friday #5: God Wrote in Lisp (The Eternal Flame)
6 comments
30,255 views
April 25, 2008
Python Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
2 comments
29,832 views
July 26, 2008
Announcing perl1line.txt - Collection of Handy Perl Scripts
3 comments
29,612 views
November 14, 2011
Introduction to Perl one-liners
4 comments
29,377 views
May 07, 2012
How Reddit Top and Hacker Top Programs Were Made
9 comments
29,313 views
July 23, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #1: Crypto
14 comments
29,019 views
March 28, 2008
Introducing node-lazy - lazy lists for node.js
5 comments
28,420 views
October 14, 2010
Reflections on Node.js Knockout Competition 2011
5 comments
27,978 views
August 29, 2011
A TCP Proxy in Perl
11 comments
27,024 views
March 31, 2011
Musical Geek Friday #3: Code Monkey
8 comments
26,696 views
April 11, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #15: Kill -9
1 comment
26,660 views
November 21, 2008
Video Lecture On My Favorite DBMS - SQLite
5 comments
25,661 views
April 15, 2008
Creating a Video Downloader Application using OpenSource Tools (Part I)
3 comments
25,499 views
July 30, 2007
Two Years of Blogging
30 comments
25,186 views
July 27, 2009
Graduated with a B.Sc. Degree in Physics
25 comments
25,004 views
July 02, 2008
Python Library for Google Sets
5 comments
24,266 views
August 13, 2009
A Real Turing Machine Running The Busy Beaver
4 comments
24,258 views
March 29, 2010
Node.js modules you should know about: everyauth
8 comments
24,106 views
January 03, 2012
Node.js modules you should know about: redis
0 comment
23,770 views
December 13, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: semver
2 comments
23,723 views
December 15, 2011
Python Library for Searching Adwords
9 comments
23,383 views
April 15, 2009
How to Read Reddit the Fanatic Programmer Way
9 comments
23,173 views
July 22, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #14: Alice and Bob
3 comments
23,068 views
August 22, 2008
Node.js modules you should know about: socket.io
0 comment
22,978 views
December 12, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: optimist
2 comments
22,927 views
December 02, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: lazy
4 comments
22,719 views
December 05, 2011
Creating a Video Downloader Application using OpenSource Tools (Part II)
11 comments
22,383 views
August 03, 2007
Video Lecture on Best Practices in JavaScript Library Design
1 comment
22,096 views
August 28, 2007
The curious case of the DES algorithm
13 comments
21,822 views
April 19, 2012
Revisiting GNU Awk YouTube Video Downloader
9 comments
21,190 views
August 29, 2008
My First Interview (by Muhammad Saleem)
0 comment
20,973 views
September 07, 2007
The `sudo chroot /chroot su - user -c "cmd args"` trick
26 comments
20,706 views
December 24, 2012
Musical Geek Friday #6: The Day the Routers Died
3 comments
20,617 views
May 09, 2008
Bash One-Liners Explained, Part IV: Working with history
15 comments
20,409 views
October 12, 2012
Node.js modules you should know about: ntwitter
6 comments
20,355 views
December 09, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: read
11 comments
19,887 views
December 08, 2011
Announcing Testling-CI
1 comment
19,602 views
January 16, 2013
Musical Geek Friday #12: Every OS Sucks
13 comments
19,321 views
July 25, 2008
Announcing Tunnels for Browserling
4 comments
18,953 views
August 17, 2011
Announcing real IEs for Browserling
16 comments
18,509 views
May 22, 2012
Node.js modules you should know about: express
5 comments
18,253 views
December 14, 2011
Why chmod text modes are more powerful than octal
14 comments
17,800 views
February 28, 2011
A few words about Digpicz.com
8 comments
17,740 views
September 04, 2007
Musical Geek Friday #17: Hax That Fsck
12 comments
17,694 views
February 06, 2009
ASCII bit trick to convert lowercase to uppercase and back
9 comments
17,679 views
October 22, 2012
Three Years of Blogging
24 comments
17,643 views
July 06, 2010
Node.js modules you should know about: hashish
4 comments
17,567 views
December 07, 2011
Announcing dedicated servers for Browserling
0 comment
17,276 views
March 01, 2012
Announcing Headless Testling
3 comments
17,183 views
November 07, 2011
Node.js modules you should know about: jsonstream
1 comment
17,050 views
December 22, 2011
Musical Geek Friday #16: Don't Copy That Floppy
2 comments
17,039 views
November 28, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #8: The Bill Gates Song
2 comments
17,030 views
June 06, 2008
How to keep track of who's talking about you
4 comments
16,970 views
January 27, 2010
Musical Geek Friday #2: Leech Axss is Coming at You!
1 comment
16,449 views
April 04, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #13: Song For Hackers and Crackers
3 comments
16,418 views
August 15, 2008
Browserling reaches 100 paying customers!
9 comments
16,161 views
May 31, 2012
Musical Geek Friday #10: TECO and DDT
6 comments
15,785 views
July 11, 2008
Revealing Reddit Score for Just Posted Links with FireFox and GreaseMonkey
4 comments
15,746 views
August 26, 2007
Musical Geek Friday #7: Just One More Hack
5 comments
15,079 views
May 30, 2008
Searching and Mining Open Source Code from the Web
2 comments
14,979 views
July 16, 2008
Four Years of Blogging
15 comments
14,285 views
August 03, 2011
Musical Geek Friday #9: The Free Software Song
3 comments
13,962 views
June 27, 2008
Musical Geek Friday #11: The BitTorrent Song
3 comments
13,627 views
July 18, 2008
Browserling reaches 200 paying customers!
6 comments
12,872 views
October 16, 2012
Five Years of Blogging
22 comments
12,585 views
July 14, 2012
Node.js modules you should know about: procstreams
1 comment
12,506 views
January 24, 2012
How to write Testling-CI tests
2 comments
11,877 views
January 18, 2013
Node.js modules you should know about: cradle
4 comments
11,769 views
December 16, 2011
Visualization of Regular Expression Character Classes
3 comments
11,083 views
February 25, 2013
Monthly Catonmat Geek T-Shirt #2: a.pipe(b).pipe(a)
3 comments
10,851 views
November 01, 2012
Idea for later - a 1:1 teaching meetup network
11 comments
10,648 views
January 21, 2013
Announcing Monthly Catonmat Geek T-Shirts
1 comment
10,328 views
October 01, 2012
A quine in node.js
6 comments
9,726 views
May 01, 2012
How Browserling Works [art]
4 comments
9,475 views
January 29, 2012
Browserling has a new design!
7 comments
9,098 views
January 16, 2012
Browserling now has Internet Explorer 10!
6 comments
8,879 views
January 22, 2013
A poem about division from Hacker's Delight
1 comment
8,779 views
April 21, 2012
I published another 10 of my projects to GitHub
0 comment
6,924 views
April 11, 2013
A Simple LD_PRELOAD Tutorial
2 comments
5,375 views
March 31, 2013
Review of Clickatell's SMS Service
3 comments
2,514 views
April 05, 2012
Interview with me and James Halliday (by David Weekly)
0 comment
847 views
March 20, 2011
Interview with Peteris Krumins (by Michael Matuzak)
0 comment
775 views
October 10, 2010

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