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  @b0rk I dont find it too bad, but I do find it inconsistent; e.g. git tag and git branch both have -d for delete, but for git remote you have to do 'git remote remove' Similarly git branch -m to rename vs git remote rename. git push onto non-default branches also confuses the hell out of me. what helps people get comfortable on the command line? https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/08/what-helps-people-get-comfortable-on-the-command-line-/ Would love more stories of things that helped you in the last ~5 years! (as usual, no need to reply if you don’t remember, or if you’ve been using the command line comfortably for 15 years — this question isn’t for you :) )
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@b0rk i had a unit on unix system administration where each week we got a slightly broken VM, one per student, we had to fix. every week was slightly harder culminating with a totally broken PAM so you couldn't easily log in we couldn't break anything, it was already broken! and if we broke it too much prof would just re-image the VM. so no fear! @b0rk most starters like things like #tmux - #bash-insulter (its fun) and #cmatrix and the obvious finally got around to putting my twitter archive on the internet at https://tweets.jvns.ca/ only has tweets up to october 2022 because that's when I exported an archive here's the source: https://github.com/jvns/tweets-archive/. it’s a mash up of @darius's https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/ tool to get the data and https://nitter.net for the CSS  also, if you *used* to use Linux on your personal computer but don't anymore, what made you switch away from it? for me: I'm on a break from Linux right now because I was having some extremely annoying power management issues I couldn't figure out (it kept running out of battery while asleep), and there was some Mac/Windows-only software I wanted to use I cannot be the only person who finds linux on the desktop annoying and hard to use sometimes, I love linux but it can really be the worst i'm working on open sourcing a small project I wrote a couple of years ago and the README is mostly just an extended apology for the development experience 
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 used magic wormhole for the first time to transfer files between 2 computers in my house and it's great computer 1: computer 2: $ wormhole receive 7-crossover-clockwork
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 @b0rk yeah very handy tool. We enroll it to everyone during our onboarding in our company.
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 We built a new playground called Memory Spy where you can spy on a program's memory! It's at https://memory-spy.wizardzines.com. I made this with @omarieclaire, and there's a blog post about how and why we built it here https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/05/25/new-playground--memory-spy/. Here's a gif: this whole website is an extremely thin wrapper around lldb, you can think of it as an advertisement for how cool gdb/lldb are :) getting closer to finalizing the table of contents for this zine on how integers and floating point numbers work this is awesome: See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS https://subtls.pages.dev/ I've been (very very slowly) working on a guide to writing your own TLS implementation from scratch and this is motivating me to make some progress on it https://float.exposed/ is really indispensable for explaining floating point -- it's SO fun to open it up and change the bits to show people how floating point works
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@b0rk Nice. @b0rk bartoz ciechanowski has such a talent for building extremely useful little interactive pedagogical things like this . its AWESOME  the print version of "The Pocket Guide to Debugging" has arrived!! 1500 copies arrived at the warehouse yesterday and are ready to ship 🚢 get yours today! https://wizardzines.com/zines/debugging-guide/ (preorders have already started shipping! :)) here's the table of contents for "The Pocket Guide to Debugging" again, since a few people have asked what it's about. it's a list of dozens of specific debugging strategies that you can use in any programming language to investigate your hardest bugs :) re my last boost -- I was thinking about how all of the comics I posted on Twitter aren't on Mastodon anywhere, so I made a little reruns bot (@b0rk_reruns) that tweets old comics of mine every couple of days. Right now it's tweeting things from 2018
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 @b0rk Excellent! Any chance to add some hashtags? Otherwise it's difficult to look up specific comics to boost. :)  made another tiny mastodon helper site for myself today This one is https://mastodon-thread-view.jvns.ca, which I made because I start a lot of threads which get tons of replies and I get overwhelmed. So I made a minimal Reddit-like interface where I can read everyone's replies to me more easily in context. It's a static site where all the data stays in your browser. Here's a blurred out screenshot (because it felt weird to share people's posts in a screenshot) every time I make a website I feel amazed by how people make nice websites with smooth UX -- you need all these little details! Like loading spinners! I'm always too lazy to figure out why the site doesn't feel right and then I just put it on the internet anyway 12
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@b0rk Janitor. I always enjoyed having someone who likes to do boring repository / code maintenance to relax. Makes everything neater, and makes it easier for us ADHD devs who would burn out on it.
@b0rk I'm a blend of Loud Noob, Documentarian, and Read The Entire Internet.
Don't let me near code, tho 🤣
@b0rk how about the Test Writer?
The one that writer clear tests that illustrate how things are supposed to work (as opposed to how they are working)