When committing bash crimes..:

👎 set -euo pipefail

👍 set -o errexit -o nounset -o pipefail

(Give the person reading your script a fighting chance at being able to search the manual for exactly how the heck the cryptic header incantations are influencing shell behaviour in crucial and subtle ways. Greybeards will already know, but it may give a new learner just a bit more of a chance to learn the old magic more easily. Help maintain the front door as well as the foundations and plumbing.)

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

(source: "Richard Scarry's Storybook Dictionary" : https://archive.org/details/1scarryRichardStorybookDictionary/page/n56/mode/1up )

A timelapse showing the incredible movement of a growing vine, exhibiting both nastic movement to find, and then a thigmotropic response to grasp and hold.

Credit: Roger P. Hangarter

The "systemctl soft-reboot" #systemd command is so cool 
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-soft-reboot.service.html

Finally a clean way to rapidly re-start everything other than the #Linux kernel… for me, it is extremely useful to be able to do that after applying desktop & graphics stack updates, and to be able to log back in within 10 seconds.

Throwing the idea out here: it would be very nice if someone figured out a way to write a #GNOMEShell extension to provide "Soft reboot" as an alternative to cold reboot!

So you think you know C?

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