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Léon Planken
It's a Unix system
Lewis Scott@oliphaunt @nixCraft a good my work was done before I arrived.
MJ+@nixCraft my favourite thing to do in Apple Store is to open the terminal and type uname -a
Redjoker ☭ | 天龙 | 👻
Charlie@nixCraft A designer helping an engineer:
"Just click on the icon that looks like a duck wearing a traffic cone"
-- "... the what? ok, what is that meant to represent?"
"No idea, we just memorize pretty pictures on icons. We can't fit labels anywhere because the text negatively impacts the visual feng shui."
Kilroy_Was_Here
Nodami
JdeBPOf course, Apple showed us how to have buttons and frames and menus (and even a mouse pointer) on a text display many years ago, and Unicode 13 has made that system possible once again.
webshinra@JdeBP @nixCraft I don't get it. semi-graphical user interface in terminal are omnipresent in today tty experience. TECO (the text editor where emacs comes from) was already doing it on PDP 6.
It's not a Apple thing, nor a past one.
Symbolic command are not replaced by TUI or GUI, they are complementary.
It's not a Apple thing, nor a past one.
Symbolic command are not replaced by TUI or GUI, they are complementary.
Yes it is. Go and read about #MouseText.
I wrote text display, not graphical.
Takiro 🎨@nixCraft
I don't know. All the Designers I know, know what a terminal is.
I don't know. All the Designers I know, know what a terminal is.
TisTree
a1@nixCraft yup... try the small black window.
Sonstwer@nixCraft please use image descriptions for the visually impaired
eons Luna (Eonity)@nixCraft now I wonder if there’s a Matrix theme for Windows Terminal so I can feel like I’m manipulating the Matrix when I work in there lol
Badscrew@nixCraft I have dropdown menus in VIM 😂
Opalium@nixCraft I still fondly remember, back in my help desk days, the genuine awe/confusion on users' face whenever I opened the terminal, like I'm some sort of a wizard.
No, that's just "ipconfig", but thank you for the compliment regardless.
Frozen_byte@nixCraft
As a Frontend Designer and Programmer I impersonate both characters here 😅🤣
As a Frontend Designer and Programmer I impersonate both characters here 😅🤣
Hikki 
@nixCraft I was once called a "hacker" because I was using ssh o_0
La Femme Vickita@nixCraft OMG, this reminds me of when I worked with a designer who used the dropdown menus to COPY AND PASTE. It was painful.
They got very, very mad at me when I took over a website they were managing and rebuilt it in PHP. (This was probably... 2006?)
(I'm still running that website, btw. It is much, MUCH bigger now, and I'm actively working on succession planning for when I retire. #entirefrickincareer)
Michael Gemar@nixCraft @lisamelton Now do the designer teaching the engineer about kerning.
“But don’t all letters use the same space? How do you line up columns in a terminal window otherwise?”
EyalL@nixCraft I was coding in emacs on the train
A kid sitting nearby came wide eyed and asked "are you a HACKER?"
Rachel Rawlings@nixCraft #AltText for the cartoon:
Caption: An Engineer Helps a Designer
Panel 1:
Our engineer says "No problem, we can fix this on the terminal" as her fingers go clack clack on the keyboard.
Panel 2:
The designer, eyes wide, hand to mouth says "Whoa, you're a HACKER!"
Engineer: "No, it's just the terminal."
Panel 3:
Designer: "Where are all the buttons, icons, and dropdown menus?"
Engineer (rolls her eyes silently)
Panel4:
Designer: "Is this... the MATRIX?"
Engineer: "Yes."
420@nixCraft Why does the dummy look like a caveman… that is not woke 😂
Belephants@nixCraft as a designer, I will confirm that everytime I use a cli I feel like a hacker.
Steve Downey@nixCraft
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line: https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt
Yes, it's that Neal Stephenson.
Mike C
Sergio@nixCraft very true.
Tony Fisk@nixCraft the only way to come to grips with the 'git'.
Doran Wetzel@nixCraft SUDO BLUE PILL
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@nixCraft True story. Late last year I was in the office for a brief visit, and a colleague was evaluating some changes I'd made.
To properly test, a change in back-end was needed (Docker container replacement).
Rather than runnning `startx` (I'm oldschool), I did it on the bare Linux console, `ssh`-ing to the affected box, `vim` to edit `docker-compose.yml`, `docker-compose up -d`.
His reaction was identical.
abhijith@nixCraft We have all had,friends reacting like this, especially when we update or install packages.
Medea Vanamonde🏳️⚧️ ♀
tomm 
@nixCraft My mother once saw me updating my #ArchLinux PC. She now sees me in different eyes
Elbert@nixCraft Text commands are also just an interface layer. No one works in ones and zeros.
Bart Libert@nixCraft
Well, I have engineer colleagues who are so used to windows GUI IDE's that they have the same reaction when they see my screen.
Well, I have engineer colleagues who are so used to windows GUI IDE's that they have the same reaction when they see my screen.
Audrey Zane@nixCraft feels so real