@b0rk maybe mention that with set -o vi you get from weird emacs to weird vi keys

@b0rk I did not know about rlwrap. (I did know about readline, this image is great, and "readline but worse" is totally reasonable commentary)

@ed1conf `rlwrap ed` is basically quick'n'dirty en/ex enhancements for `ed(1)`. I'm probably still going to just use vanilla ed(1), but having the arrow keys work was interesting.

@b0rk My personal taxonomy puts prompt_toolkit (the custom lib used by ipython) at the same level as readline and libedit.

It's a reusable component, and it definitely aims to be the Python version of readline. I've used it to add line editing to a personal project and I quite like it.

@b0rk it is a bit annoying that there's nothing you can sensibly do before printing a shell prompt that resets _everything_.

The 'reset' program sends ESC c, which resets the terminal completely to its power-on state, including clearing the screen. But you don't want to clear the screen before every shell prompt. You'd like a sequence that does all of ESC c _except_ that!

So instead the shell has to think of every individual setting that might need to be reset, and likely forget one :-(

@b0rk i still remember the day I first met "reset". If there were an oscar nomination for cli utilities, I'd certainly name it.

@b0rk This may be a silly question, but how do some of these key combinations work with different keyboard layouts? For example, on a Swedish (mac) layout, the @-symbol is alt-gr-2; Do you type ctrl-alt-gr-2 to get the null character?

@b0rk You are doing god's work. Thank you.

@b0rk Also when in an ssh or telnet session, `~.` will disconnect it

@b0rk When in doubt...yank it out. 👍🏾

@b0rk TIL about the C→3→SIGINT mapping!

@b0rk I recently implemented a db struct based on the sqlite article you referenced, and this is how it came out: https://gist.github.com/llimllib/2d03a8da46bbd3d247d2492849e3dc4e

I'd love to see how other people have implemented it!

@b0rk thanks, I'm using mux routing but my handlers can be a bit complex so this will help simplify them

@b0rk Hi Julia, I was curious to know how you built the categories thing in your blog page. Is the website open sourced, I'd like to have a peak and implement it in my own as well :p

@b0rk git-diff can be used with the files outside of the repository and you probably already know about its --color-words option.

Otherwise there's https://github.com/ymattw/ydiff and is multiple forks called cdiff.

@b0rk `git diff --no-index before after` can be nice too, if you have configured a nice diff pager like delta!

@b0rk https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy

@b0rk
Watching from afar, I admire you for trying it, and admire you more for the success you are finding. Well done!

someone asked me recently how long it took me to get used to the rhythm of working for myself and I said “uh, maybe 3 years?”. I thought working for myself would be hard to adjust to and it was, but I'm happy I did it anyway

@b0rk Keep up the great work! 😄

@b0rk I was sitting next to another programmer who, after much trying, threw his hands up and exclaimed, "Well, it won't work," then a half-hour later had it working. A puree of 2 and 4.

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Cool, but where's the rubber duck?

@b0rk Love this and purchased! Literally just went through a problematic debug yesterday and thought of this.

@b0rk I also came to the Emacs strokes late, as a Vim user. one great thing about learning them is that they work in a lot of macOS UIs too. In particular ctrl-p/ctrl-n

@b0rk thanks for the post. I learned new things from it. I love your approach to learning.

I did a similar investigation some time ago. In the end I made a game in the terminal to make it more interesting. :)

https://youtu.be/WvSOSyi5lWY

@b0rk CTL-[ is still how I type ESCAPE, due to too many years of odd keyboard layouts.

@b0rk The color scheme might clash with the rest of the room, but I love the idea.

@b0rk I was wondering if this was Risograph, or something similar, because it feels so perfect for that. Awesome.

@b0rk For me personally, this is missing step 0: Take a shower, take a walk, have a cup of tea, take a nap.
Can be combined in any subset or order, as long as it gets you away from the machine for ten minutes.

@b0rk Thank you so much!

@b0rk !!!!!

anyway i've been trying to summarize my relationship with git (which I love) in a single panel and this is where I landed today

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@b0rk Oh that is awesome. I've definitely checked things in to the wrong branch. I just pulled up the Git Bash terminal (I'm limited with what I can access, on $work machine) and it includes the (branch) thing!

@b0rk that's very good advice

@b0rk I voted command line + GUI, with the latter being for my Magit usage (and I guess Github blame view). I use the command line for pull, rebase, log, diff, and many blame operations. I use Magit for committing things, especially selective commits, and thus for checking diffs before I commit and so on. (And some use of git-timemachine in Emacs to move back and forth through the history of a file to track things.)

But my git use is odd since I track and monitor a lot of upstream repos.

@b0rk I have used @fork_dev for the last 5 years or so and I can't be any happier

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I work in IntelliJ, and it’s Git UI is so good (or I spent enough time to get used to it’s rough edges, too), that I feel much less productive on the CLI.

I wonder why IntelliJ users still use the git CLI, esp. for staging, writing commit messages, diffs and git blame.

But also branch operations and git log are good enough or even really good, depending on the use case. I totally recommend the interactive rebase UI!

@b0rk FWIW I like reading your posts. At the moment, I really need reading about tech stuff from the perspectives of people who *aren't* total assholes.

For myself I gave up on writing anything substantial online for many reasons, one of which is that I don't have the psychological constitution for potential large audiences (and hence, maintaining a "real" social media presence). I wish it wasn't like this, and I hope doing what you do doesn't burn you out.

@b0rk I feel you. Try to ignore this stuff if you can. You're doing important work here 🙏

@b0rk This has been my experience as well. And I’m a middle-aged white dude. I imagine it’s even worse for people in other demographics

@b0rk Thank you! This is so much clearer than any of the many other explanations I've tried to read before now.

And I hadn't even heard of squash: I was just trying to understand the difference between merge and rebase... (Yes, I put off learning git about ten years longer than I should've.)

@b0rk There's a fourth option though: The "student has their first merge conflict, panics and tries to sort it out themself instead of asking for help"-option.

- Checked in conflict-markers: ☑️​
- Checked in backup and temporary checked-out files for git merge-tool: ☑️
- Merge commit that only contained the changes of only one branch ("ours"-strategy wasn't intended): ☑️
- Merge commit that contained the content of a unrelated third branch, but non of the changes of the two merged branches: ☑️

@b0rk Perfect. What an elegant way to represent commit graphs. And thank you for articulating my dread of merge graphs

A squash + rebase looks almost ideal to me. I'm going to do that more often.

The negatives of squash + rebase look minor to me though. Is a 3000-line PR any better with the other options?

@b0rk so every time you touch a file, there is a whole new copy in a blob? 😨😱

@b0rk this is making me want to finally sit down and work through https://shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/ where you build a simplified working git clone

@b0rk great content! (As always). I recently found https://pre-commit.com/ as a really useful tool for distributing coding standards inside a git repo. A bit different than what your current content, but one of worst sort of merge conflicts on teams is formatters gone rogue, IMO.

@b0rk Thanks, I liked that! This post woke something in me re the discussion on rebase vs merge the other day. I think I prefer rebase/linear history because it maps very well to a sequence of patch files that could be copied around and applied independent of git itself. Not sure why that feels so "pure" to me, but it does.

@b0rk I think of them as patches

@b0rk
Really nice blog, and yeah, confirmed, there's a stark difference between the mental model (I'm one of the "all of the above" folks) and the actual technical model.

Speaking of this, before git, I worked a lot with monotone, which has quite a lot of similarities to git... however, storage wasn't one of them. Monotone stored commits as diffs, so there were situations where they had to be replayed en masse. That could be quite a performance hit...

a bunch of folks have mentioned that they use rerere to avoid solving the same merge conflict a million times during a rebase. If you use it, do you find it works well? are there any downsides to using it?

@b0rk If rebase is going badly I sometimes do `git reset main` instead and craft the commits I need. A lot of the times it’s a single commit anyway!

@b0rk I literally told my 2 juniors today to stop force-pushing rebased versions of their PRs to GitHub if there are already comments on some of the old commits, and to instead merge over them... turns out a lot of nice GitHub stuff breaks when you rewrite history