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If you work with any kind of text files, a version control program is your best friend. And Git is probably the best. The easiest way to learn git is tutorial. All other git commands you will learn by googling for them when in need. If you want to share your code in an open source way, Github is nowadays the top choice. They also helped with the tutorial above. [Read More]

PDFs are a fine thing. But sometimes we want to edit them. Mostly for printing. Pdfjam This command-line tool named pdfjam uses latex to edit PDFs. It should be available in the repositories of most Linux distros. There are also useful examples. You can offset pages of a (twosided) document in order to make room for a binding, etc.: pdfjam --twoside myfile.pdf --offset '1cm 0cm' --suffix 'offset' This doesn’t scale, it just shifts the content. [Read More]