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content/blog/git-diff-by-words.md

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+---
+title: "Git Diff by Words"
+date: 2022-02-04T21:23:30-05:00
+draft: false
+tags: ["Git"]
+math: false
+---
+
+When working in LaTex it is often more useful to see the changes by words as opposed to lines. Luckily, it's pretty easy to view this in the terminal.
+
+```bash
+git diff --color-words
+```
+

content/blog/snap-flatpak-aliases.md

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+---
+title: "Aliases for Snaps and Flatpaks"
+date: 2022-02-04T20:29:04-05:00
+draft: false
+tags: []
+math: false
+---
+
+Sometimes snap packages and flatpaks come with unmemorable names to run their commands. Luckily for snap packages, you can easily alias them. For example, to rename the .NET executable to `dotnet` run.
+
+```bash
+sudo snap alias dotnet-sdk.dotnet dotnet
+```
+
+Sadly the same cannot be said for Flatpaks. There is a [Github issue](https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/1565) open at the moment. I'll update this post when they successfully close the issue. In the meantime, we can use a script made by Seth Kenlon over at [Red Hat's blog](https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/launch-flatpaks-terminal-fuzzpak). The script is at the bottom of the post for posterity. You can save it to `~/.local/bin`, `chmod +x ~/.local/bin`, and then run `fuzzpak [appname]` where `appname` is the last part of the flatpak name. For example, the package`io.typora.Typora` can be called with `fuzzpak typora`.
+
+```bash
+# parse opts
+while [ True ]; do
+if [ "$1" = "--help" -o "$1" = "-h" ]; then
+    echo " "
+    echo "$0 [OPTIONS]"
+    echo "--directory, -d   Location of flatpaks (default: $HOME/.var/app"
+    echo " "
+    exit
+elif [ "$1" = "--directory" -o "$1" = "-d" ]; then
+    DIR=$DIR
+    shift 2
+else
+    break
+fi
+done
+
+# main
+launch_app "${1}"
+```
+