Shinji_Ikari [he/him]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • Yeah I actually just prefer the command line, I’ve never had to force myself to use it. I even tried using VSC for a bit recently but i couldn’t get myself to like it. I just use nvim with some plugins in a tmux session now and its productive as hell.

    Of course I don’t browse the web with the command line. For merging branches, I always merge main into the working branch first, check conflict files, and go through the file finding the diffs and resolving them. I’ve used merge tools before that were sorta nice but I had my own issues with them.

    Maybe it’s the type of programming I do. I don’t do any web stuff, so file count is down. For larger code bases I keep a non editor terminal up and will grep -re for word/phrase searching, find to look for specific files, etc. I’ll occasionally use an IDE, typically eclipse based because embedded, but I don’t find myself missing the features they add.




  • I really never understood why one would need a GUI for git except for visualizing branches.

    I feel like I’m crazy seeing so many people using clicky buttons for tracking files. I need like 4 commands for 95% of what I do and the rest you look up.

    You’re already programming! Just learn the tool!

    And now there’s a github CLI tool? I hate to beat a dead horse but Microsoft pushing their extended version of an open source tool/protocol is literally the second step of their mantra.





  • I had an old arch install about 7 years ago that stopped booting, so I booted into ubuntu, mounted the ssd, used a chroot to fix it, forgot to unmount the ssd, proceeded to rm the mount dir as it was “temporary”. It took me mere seconds to realize what I did and by then it was a lost cause. I was able to use a file recovery tool to grab my precious memes, but thankfully there wasn’t much else valuable on the drive.

    Worlds most roundabout rm -rf /


  • Its not dead simple but its also not extremely complex.

    I’m currently working with some interns and there’s just concepts they were never exposed to. Without decent mentoring, git can be difficult because a lot of the workflow does come with experience.

    That being said everyone needs to stop acting like its an impossible task to properly do source control. There is some truth that if you don’t care enough to do your source control, you don’t care enough to write decent code. Its not a moral failing, just take some pride in your craft.

    Show the newbies how to care and they’ll care enough to want to do it right. Measure twice, cut once and all that.



  • I bought a super cheap classic and did a flash mod, battery upgrade, and bluetooth mod.

    The bt mod only came after I went back to wired headphones and experienced the rage of having earbuds ripped out when the wire hooks onto things. I was a bt earbud hater for a bit but the freedom is somethin else.

    It does suck a lot to load music onto it, I’ve tried foobar2000 and a linux option. the former is better but windows, if you switch around you need to re-sync the entire ipod, which over slow USB2 is a many hour endeavor.

    The simplicity of not being distracted by a notification when you go to change a song is undefeated.