I feel like OS X has a big hand in this discussion. Most developers I know now use OS X and only touch it's Unix underpinnings when required to do so. They do

I feel like OS X has a big hand in this discussion. Most developers I know now use OS X and only touch it's Unix underpinnings when required to do so. They don't use SSH so much, they'll use sshfs or some other remote file system setup, they'll use a git GUI in their IDE and a (S)FTP client more often than not. The dev community over the past few years seems to have embraced nix styling in their projects more and more so I think en mass people are getting more exposure to the CLI and therefore, getting more curious about what else it can do, leading to another blog post about nix commands, how to use them, etc. The irony is I remember when people gave me shit for running OS X back in 2001 and being "stupid for not running windows" and "making my life harder". The schadenfreude of a Windows user watching me when something didn't just work automatically or I had to boot up VirtualPC back then was far from subtle and peppered with reminders I could "just run windows dude". Now days, it's still there, but it's much more common and much stronger coming from a Mac user than any Windows users I've encountered as of late.