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I've many times wondered how I could build a Makefile that would accept arguments to pass to the command invoked by the build target. It turns out to be relatively easy.
There is a make variable called MAKECMDGOALS that contains the list of possible build targets. We can filter-out any of those from the arguments passed to make (as referenced by $@) to get a list of command arguments to pass on to our program....

I had an odd situation today when building and pushing a container image to a registry.
I have a private registry in my homelab. I have an internal DNS server that can resolve it when in my home network, and my machines in my home network all use that internal DNS server. Great, fantastic, just works....

Somehow, I got a file in my tree that started with a null byte. I only discovered it because git status was noting it wasn't added to my branch, and wanted to know if I wanted to add it.
No, no, I did not. I wanted to delete it.
But, of course, you cannot reference such a file by name, so I had to learn a few tricks....

I'm a longtime zsh user. A colleague introduced me to it in 2009, and I was an instant convert, if nothing else than for directory aliases and simpler $PATH management. Within a couple of years, I discovered oh-my-zsh, which put my shell on steroids...