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Archive for October 5th, 2026

Going to try: DaisyDisk | Home – Find out what’s taking up your disk space and recover it in the most efficient and easy way.

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/05

On my list of things to try on MacOS: [Wayback/Archive] DaisyDisk | Home

Find out what’s taking up your disk space and recover it in the most efficient and easy way.

At USD ~10 for use on 5 Apple MacOS machines, it is dead cheap especially since it can also scan cloud storage for some vendors.

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] anna on X: “Cool, I’ve just freed up 21.4 GB on my disk. Thanks to @DaisyDisk …”

--jeroen

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Man Pages | ManKier (converted to HTML5 from troff or mdoc); TLDR pages for many command-line examples

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/05

This archive seems to have very recent HTML5 renderings of many man pages from their troff or mdoc sources: [Wayback/Archive] Man Pages | ManKier.

I bumped into it via [Archive/Archive] ipmitool: utility for controlling IPMI-enabled devices | ipmitool Commands | Man Pages | ManKier when writing Some links on Dell R730xd fan noise.

The site is not only very up-to-date on rendered man pages, but the rendering has great features too. Read more on those at [Wayback/Archive] About | ManKier.

A nice history on how ManKier came to be is at [Wayback/Archive] Blog – ManKier. It’s less than a dozen posts, and recommended reading.

Oh, I almost forget: I have added the man search shortcut to my browsers; these two examples should get you going by adding www.mankier.com/?q=%s as a search template:

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Conference Topics, Conferences, Event, man/manual pages, mankier, Power User | Leave a Comment »