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Good CLI Design Is Mostly Silence
- RickS 2mo agohttps://paulgraham.com/talk.html https://paulgraham.com/talk.html In particular, the PG essay contains exactly one designed-to-be-quoted pat-yourself-on-the-back really-send-it-home-ism: > Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas. This entire link is nothing but those. I don't feel like I'm being spoken to, let alone taught to. I feel like I'm being repeatedly poked with a finger that really wants me to know it has punchy ideas. Which backfires, ofc.
- vintagedave 2mo agoEvery paragraph two lines long max. It feels like it's treating the reader as unintelligent. It's like a hammer every sentence.
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- renyicircle 2mo agoThat's probably just Claude. I do enjoy finding new ways to call out the patterns it uses though.
- pvdebbe 2mo agoA command is something I shout to an underling or my shell prompt. My shell interpreter takes my command, parses it and calls the necessary tool, be it a builtin or an executable. I tell Tom to fetch the morning paper from the yard. Is Tom a command? No, Tom is my son.
- nojs 2mo agoFlagged as slop. What is the point of posting something like this if you can’t even be bothered to write it yourself?
- pentakkusu 2mo agoholy slopperoni