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As someone who does software for a living, I need to be able to SSH onto a box/container/pod and do things. This is ridiculous. Don't turn your shell into unic
by twblalock 4y ago
As someone who does software for a living, I need to be able to SSH onto a box/container/pod and do things. This is ridiculous.
Don't turn your shell into unicorns and rainbows. They won't be there when you need them. Turn yourself into someone who can be productive with the basic Bash defaults because those are the only things that will definitely be there on every system you use.
- cageface 4y agoI used to believe this but in fact I spend a vanishingly tiny fraction of my time shelled into random machines running individual commands by hand. I'd rather optimize for the 99% of my time I spend in an environment I can configure to be maximally productive and enjoyable.
- fileeditview 4y agoWe all have different needs.. not everybody is an "SRE" or similar. Some people just use the terminal/shell mainly on their own machine and want to tune it. I am one of them. I can still use a vi without plugins on a remote machine instead of my tweaked and heavily customized vim. It is not an argument to keep the environment I work in all the time dumb.