My choice is screen
on the CLI. It’s an old one, but I just learned about it this year and it’s been amazing helpful doing complex, long-running tasks via SSH.
I’m just this guy, you know. Except on Lemmy.
My choice is screen
on the CLI. It’s an old one, but I just learned about it this year and it’s been amazing helpful doing complex, long-running tasks via SSH.
That laugh is so warm I bet he never needed central heating
The guy who wrote this is gone
I’ve gotten about 1,000 alert emails in the last 8 hours because of this
It’s not pride, it’s just that I know how to use it really well and that makes it easy for me to use.
But it’s really only for viewing files on another system over SSH. For local work I use Sublime Text
I have Whoogle running in a docker container
This is why I use a search proxy. Still get Google results but with all the crap stripped away. Plus I can write custom search options so if I go ! imdb rise of the planet of the apes
it will do the search and just take me to the first result
And Woz wasn’t the only genius who worked at Apple at the time. Pretty much everyone who worked on the original Macintosh was brilliant.
The first job I had out of college was doing development on the production server with this method of version control. I still have nightmares.
The problem with “It’s self-documenting” is that there are inevitably questions about what it says, and there’s no additional resources to pull from.
Totally agree. And I’d argue that we don’t even need technical writers. Even if all people do is correct grammar and spelling mistakes it would be helpful, let alone actually writing docs. It’s one of the easiest ways non-technical folks can get involved with open source projects.
If you know your weakness is writing documentation, please hire a technical writer.
I’m really thankful that I had a great English teacher in high school, and that my degree required a technical writing class. Being able to write a coherent email got me further in my career than the technical stuff I learned in college.
It’s also why the humanities are important. Stemlords who brag about not doing literature classes write terrible documentation.
You have to assume some level of end user knowledge, otherwise every piece of documentation would start with “What a computer does” and “How to turn your computer on.”
I’ve found the best practice is to list your assumptions at the top of the article with links to more detailed instructions.
I’m more upset about her being mad about burning flags. Not so upset that I wouldn’t vote for her, but I’ve got a right to burn a flag because I don’t like what it represents and as a prosecutor she should know that.
Absolutely correct. However, I’ve lived in apartments where I couldn’t control the water heater temperature and other people might be in the same situation who might benefit.
If you have a toilet that, when flushed, turns your shower into lava, adjust the toilet filler valve so it’s barely open and you’ll have much less of a problem.
If pi is truly infinite, then it contains all the works of Shakespeare, every version of Windows, and this comment I’m typing right now.
Yep! You can have multiple named screens, log them all individually, and they’ll keep processes running even if you disconnect. Never used
tmux
butscreen
is usually installed on the systems I’m working on.