Java Terminal Graphics (A.K.A. image.sh)
So after all these years, I say you still can’t beat a modern UNIX-like (i.e., Linux) shell environment (i.e., bash) for doing development. But that’s a topic for a different rant. Today I want to focus on introducing a tool that we’ve developed which adds one feature to the shell that it’s been lacking for all these years: The ability to view image files. This particular tool came about as the fortunate merger of two otherwise unrelated projects that I was working on at the same time a few years back: ANSI escape...
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If you’ve spent a lot of time working in a UNIX-like shell environment, you’ve no doubt quickly become an expert at the cd command. It’s pretty much the first thing you learn to do in the shell. Then one day you learn the cd - option, to switch back to $OLDPWD (ie, the last place that you’d cd’ed to in that session), and at that point you were a cd master, showing off to all your friends and co-workers. From there on, you’re basically resolved to spend the next 30 years or so just cd’ing around...
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better is better than best wow – what? i’ll say it again. better is better than best We have all heard it before. a bird in the hand is better than two in the bush there comes a time in every project when you’ve got to shoot the engineer and goto production 20% of 100% is 80% – and 80% is damn good The point is, that we all too often get caught up on “more”. We get caught up on the perfection; on the grand idea. We can spend years getting it “just right” and in the end never do anything...
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