Development Tools
A carpenter is only as good as his hammer, and a chef as good as his knife. So it is for the programmer – the sharper his tools, the finer his code! Our collection of tools and tricks are exposed to show everyone a different, a better, way to get it done
The right tools can transform a programmer’s task from torturous to trivial, from frustrating to fun, and from daunting to done. Over the years, kingsrook has developed a broad array of tools that help make development the pure joy that it was when we were kids, writing our first Hello Worlds and graphic hacks.
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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