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Mike Little

@mikelittle@mastodon.online
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06
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Humanism, Stoicism, 🏳️‍🌈, he/they.
Developer Advocate at altis-dxp.com and humanmade.com. Owner at zed1.com. Co-founder of WordPress. @mikelittlezed1@twitter.com
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1181 Followers
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Joined December 24, 2020
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Mike Little @mikelittle@mastodon.online
· 23mo ago

I'm really pleased to get my advance copy of 'What I Believe' edited by Andrew Copson. Seeing my words amongst those of such great people is quite humbling. My part is on my thoughts about an open-source world and how it benefits mankind.
⁦⁦#Humanists_UK #Humanists ⁩#WhatIBelieve

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Mike Little @mikelittle@mastodon.online
· 23mo ago

All you #homelab, #linux, etc bloggers and Youtubers out there: When using nano, CTRL+s will save the file.
You don't have to exit without saving and then answer Y to the prompt `save modified buffer`, then `enter` to keep the same filename.
Be intentional: save file, exit editor. CTRL+s, CTRL+x

That is all. 🙂

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Mike Little @mikelittle@mastodon.online
· 47mo ago
Replying to
@nzlemming@mastodon.nz @nixCraft@mastodon.social Years ago, I used a DOS program that did its own backups to floppies (this was around 1988). When it came time to restore, I discovered it had an overflow bug once you got past 32k records! Spent 2 days writing code (in Turbo Pascal) to fix bits in the backup files so I could restore! Also, it was EBCDIC encoded!!!
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Mike Little @mikelittle@mastodon.online
· 23mo ago
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@docteer no difference that I know of. Apart from saving a single keystroke. But it is more about being intentional, as I said. We often learn things that "work by coincidence". Most of the time it is benign. Occasionally, it's not. I have done the same many, many times over the years. But when I learn the correct way to do something, I try to switch to that.
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Mike Little @mikelittle@mastodon.online
· 23mo ago
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@Auli @docteer Nano help says: Ctrl+S: "Save File without prompting" & Ctrl+O: "Write the current buffer to disk". Whereas CTRL+x is "Close the current buffer / Exit from Nano". I specifically addressed those Youtubers, etc who say "CTRL+X, Y, Enter to save"
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