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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...

I have a number of locations on my website where I've been faking a masonry layout (you know, like how Pinterest lays things out) using CSS grid columns. They work, but they're not what I'm looking for.
I've been waiting for the official masonry grid display to land, and discovered that it's now an experimental feature in Chrome-based browsers that you can enable (it's been available for Firefox for awhile)....

I've been using Linux on the desktop for more than 25 years now. While I don't put icons on my desktop any longer (and haven't for probably around 15 years), I do use the gnome-shell launcher to quickly open programs, and this utilizes desktop files...