Tmux is a terminal multiplexer, which is a fancy way of saying it give you the ability to run multi terminals. Google Cloud Cloudshell uses the default Tmux configuration which makes me not want to use it.

However help is at hand. You can update the settings and this post covers how to make those changes. Cloudshell …

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Cloud Shell is super useful and features a lot of tools. However out of the box the general setup doesnt match my local machine. If you want to use tmux or vim in your environment, this blog post is for you.
The following is a quick summary of changes made to update Cloud Shell to be a bit more like my own machine. …

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Fish is described as a smart and user-friendly command shell. As you would expect it works on Linux and is super useful to get that optimized experience. The blog post covers installation on GCP Cloud Shell I would expect the installation process to be similar on any Linux based machine.

If you want to use oh-my-bash, …

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If you work at the command line with Git this ones for you! Most of my time is spent at the Linux command line. My tool of choice is always "oh-my-bash" as it just works across all my machines. However if you are using a Cloud Provider environment, you probably dont want to spend time setting up another …

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Recently a colleague created a spreadsheet but was unaware of the power lurking underneath. Google Sheets include a very comprehensive toolset that can be used to extend functionality.

Overview

In this blog post learn how to access a Google Sheets document to extend functionality. To get started there are a couple of …

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