Finding Disk Usage on Linux

One of the most common challenges any web designer faces is ensuring that their work appears as intended. Print designers have the advantage of creating the physical designs themselves, but web designers depend upon user environments (read, browsers) to render their designs correctly.

In the past, browsers could only render the fonts already installed on a user’s computer, which meant that users without a good library of fonts would miss out on designs that made use of uncommon fonts. CSS 3 introduces a new fix called @font-fact that could be the future of web design typography. 

Sometimes I leave processes running which take up ports on my local machine (e.g., Redis server). I won’t be able to use the port until it’s freed up, but it’s sometimes a chore to figure out how to kill the process by port.

I found the following snippet super useful to kill a process by port in Mac OS:

lsof -t -i tcp:[port] | xargs kill

Just replace the [port] above with the actual numbered port (e.g., 6379).