Philip Guo

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Onion article?
https://archive.ph/ejC53#selection-499.0-514.0

“I want to talk to people,” said Sellers, who runs a content agency for entrepreneurs out of Birmingham, Alabama. “I don’t want to talk to a bunch of [AI] note takers,” he said — before adding that he has occasionally himself sent an AI note taker to meetings in his place.

@kaflurbaleen ha yeah like can't compile or run anyone's code that was written even 2 years ago without pulling hair out
@kaflurbaleen that 70s show -> that 90s show

@chrisamaphone that could make for a cool book or seminar class! reminds me of some projects like: https://aosabook.org/en/

for me, maybe some core part of an OS? like virtual memory or process scheduling?

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

@kaflurbaleen been really loving these updates!!
i can tweak/edit design files in figma decently well if someone else does the hard work of creating an initial draft, but i can't create much of anything on my own since i have no visual design training ... seems to mirror how a lot of people can tweak/edit code well once the basic infrastructure/boilerplate has been built (either by a human or AI tool), but it's a much higher load to be able to build from scratch

we've already sold 1000 copies of The Secret Rules of the Terminal since it came out on Tuesday!

so to celebrate I'm giving away 1000 copies to anyone who can't afford to buy one. You can use code BUYONEGIVEONE at checkout to get a free PDF copy if $12 USD is a lot for you.

https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

The Secret Rules of the Terminal

wizard zines

If you want to get "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" (or any other zine!) and you're in a country with a weaker currency than the US (India, Brazil, etc), there's a discount to make the zines more affordable. You can see it in action here:

https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/

If you're in a country this applies to, you should see something like this:

@chrisamaphone yeah that was like my least favorite question throughout childhood

this blog post is largely about how writing about the terminal was a slow descent from

this can't be that complicated right?
into
oh no
oh NO
OH NO
OH NOOOO

anyway the point of "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is to explain the Cool Useful Parts of how the terminal works where understanding them is pretty straightforward and can help you do useful stuff and carefully avoid the many Cursed Parts

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The reason this zine is called "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is that I learned more useful things while writing this zine than when writing any other zine, even though I've been using the terminal every day for 20 years.

It really left me feeling like the terminal is full of hidden secrets -- because "the terminal" is made up of so many different pieces, there's no single terminal manual you can read!

Here's the table of contents (which as a bonus shows the components of the terminal!)

@b0rk I've used the terminal for a long time too and know quite a few of its secrets, but back when you did the (a?) survey a while back I went to answer it fully expecting to learn some new secrets and was happy to indeed learn.
@b0rk purchased. Thank you for your hard work on this!
@b0rk congrats on the zine. Can't wait to read!
@b0rk it looks so cool 😎

@b0rk I plan in the next few months to resume working on my Terminedia ASCII art/ Terminal framework.

I feel confident the information in this zine will teach me a lot and allow me to include some nice features and behaviors there