Taming the Terminal

Taming the Terminal

Bart Busschots & Allison Sheridan

Episodes 47
Avg. Duration 1h 6m
Activity Dormant
Apple Rating 5.0 (21)
Since Oct 2015
Latest Episode Dec 2025

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Schedule
Hourly
Format
Episodic
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podfeet.com

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About This Podcast

Taming the Terminal is a podcast based on the tutorial created by Bart Busschots and explained to Allison Sheridan.

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Recent Episodes

TTT 41 of n — Protecting Your Secrets

Dec 18, 2025 1h 1m

We're back after a (planned) lengthy hiatus! In this instalment, Bart teaches us how to protect our secrets while working in the Terminal. Secrets can include passwords, API keys, and any other…

TTT 40 of n – Automating TMUX

Aug 16, 2020 1h 13m

In this episode of Taming the Terminal, Bart winds up our series within a series all about the Terminal command TMUX. In this final piece he teaches us first how to string commands together to…

TTT 39 of n – Advanced TMUX

Jul 26, 2020

This week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond was another installment of Taming the Terminal. Two weeks ago Bart taught us the basics of a technology called `tmux`, or terminal multiplexer that…

TTT 38 of n – TMUX (a Screen Alternative)

Jul 12, 2020 1h 6m

When Bart first started the Taming the Terminal series in October of 2015, he purposely declared every installment to be "of n" where n was not defined. It's been 3 years since there was an episode…

TTT 37A of n – SSH Agents

May 27, 2017 31m

In 2017 on Taming the Terminal installment 37 of n, Bart taught us about SSH agents and the advantages of using a passphrase to further protect your SSH keys. In the intervening four years, things…

TTT 37 of n – SSH Agents

May 27, 2017

As promised, Taming the Terminal isn't over yet! Bart Busschots joins us to talk about SSH Agents. We'll talk about how Apple changed things in El Capitan so that you'll have to log into your…

TTT 36 of n - screen and cron

Nov 19, 2016 1h 3m

It’s been a long time since we did a Taming the Terminal episode but we’re back with episode 36 of n, screen and cron. You’ll hear me say this is episode 35, but with all these numbers flying around…

TTT 35 of n - HTTP Commands

Oct 23, 2015

In this installment we look at three terminal commands for interacting with the world wide web from the terminal. We'll look at a command-line based browser, and commands for downloading files and…

TTT 33 of n - SSH Bookmarks

Oct 23, 2015

In this installment we learn how to use SSH config files to automate some aspects of SSH, creating what amount to bookmarks to servers we connect to often. We'll also look at some GUIs for storing…

TTT 34 of n - Introducing HTTP

Oct 23, 2015

In this installment we look at how the HTTP protocol works, this is the protocol that powers the world-wide-web. As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at ttt.bartificer.net/...

TTT 32 of n - SSH Tunneling

Oct 23, 2015

In this installment we'll look at how SSH tunnels can be used to secure all kinds of network traffic, not just remote commands and file transfers. Most people won't need the power of SSH tunnels very…

TTT 31 of n - SSH File Transfers

Oct 23, 2015

SSH can do a lot more than just run commands, and in this installment we'll discover how to use SSH to securely transfer files from one computer to another. As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous…

TTT 30 of n - SSHing More Securely

Oct 23, 2015

By default SSH uses usernames and passwords to authenticate users, but in this installment we'll discover how to use SSH keys to make SSH both more secure and more convenient. As always, you can get…

TTT 29 of n - Intro to SSH

Oct 23, 2015

In this installment we introduce the Secure Shell, or SSH. SSH can do many things, but first and foremost it lets us run command, or entire command shells on remote computers securely. As always,…

TTT 28 of n - Network Troubleshooting

Oct 23, 2015

In this installment we put everything we have learned so far about networking together, and describe a workflow for diagnosing home networking problems. As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous…

TTT 27b of n - DNS

Oct 23, 2015

This is the second part of a two-part installment looking at the Domain Name System, or DNS. DNS is a critical cog in the internet's wheel because it translates between human-friendly domain names,…

TTT 27a of n - DNS

Oct 23, 2015

This is the first part of a two-part installment looking at the Domain Name System, or DNS. DNS is a critical cog in the internet's wheel because it translates between human-friendly domain names,…

TTT 26 of n - DHCP

Oct 23, 2015

In this installment we learn about the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, or DHCP. This is the protocol that allows our computers to automatically discover their network settings, and without it…

TTT 25b of n - IP Subnets

Oct 23, 2015

This is the second part of a two-part installment exploring the second layer in the TCP/IP stack, the Internet Layer, and most importantly, the IP protocol. In particular we focus on the vitally…

TTT 25a of n - IP Subnets

Oct 23, 2015

This is the first part of a two-part installment exploring the second layer in the TCP/IP stack, the Internet Layer, and most importantly, the IP protocol. In particular we focus on the vitally…

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