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I found it interesting that they know how to use strace, but not how to list open files held by a process which to me seems simpler. Again, not criticism just a

• parliament32 11mo ago
  Given the "(hi Julia!)" immediately after the strace shenanigans, I interpreted this as a third-party hint; the author most likely had not used strace before. The author is both an example of and an example for how we can get caught in "bubbles" of tools/things we know and use and don't, and blog posts like this are great for discovery (I didn't know about git invoking a binary in the path like his "git re-edit", for example, until today).
  • dwedge 11mo ago
    I discovered that by accident, I had a script called git-pr that opened a pull request with github using the last commit message and then pushed it to slack for approval. I was trying to rewrite it to add a description and wondered why "git pr" pushed an empty message to slack
  • mjd 11mo ago
    I assure you that the author has been using strace since it was invented in the early 1990s.
• mjd 11mo ago
  When are you planning to run lsof? Emacsclient exits immediately when it can't find the socket.