Telling a Computer to Do Things
- For the first few years of my career, I didn’t know how to tell my computer to do things.
- I could kick off a few commands from the terminal – run those tests, install that dependency, start that container, ssh to that machine – but I was limited to running simple commands one at a time.
- My terminal was the world’s worst GUI, and I thought that the shell was the way to start programs that didn’t have application wrappers.
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- For the first few years of my career, I didn’t know how to tell my computer to do things.
- I could kick off a few commands from the terminal – run those tests, install that dependency, start that container, ssh to that machine – but I was limited to running simple commands one at a time.
- My terminal was the world’s worst GUI, and I thought that the shell was the way to start programs that didn’t have application wrappers.
Sources: Will-keleher