How I use my terminal

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538 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 23 Jun 25 15:14 UTC | HN request time: 1.348s | source

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benreesman ◴[23 Jun 25 18:51 UTC] No.44358830[source]▶

This is a nice setup. It's got tmux and fzf and rg and zoxide and clean-looking nvim. I'd recommend atuin, starship, bat, glow, duf, dogdns, viddy, gum/sesh, dust, btop et all if you don't have them, there's a long tail. The Awesome Terminal XYZ lists on Github have them all.

atuin is make-or-break, its a bigger deal than zoxide and being a coder without zoxide is like being an athlete with shoes for a different sport.

asciinema is a better way to do terminal videos.

Its weird that this is weird now: having your tools wired in used to be called "being a programmer". VSCode and Zed and Cursor and shit are useful additions to the toolbox, you gotta know that stuff by heart now too and you have to know which LLM to use for what, but these things are the new minimum, they aren't a replacement for anything. Even with Claude Code running hot at 4am when the PID controller is wide open, sometimes its going to trash your tree (and if it doesnt youve got it on too short a leash to be faster than gptel) and without magit? gl.

If you think you're faster than OP with stock Cursor? Get them to make a video of how to use an LLM with chops.

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1. groby_b ◴[23 Jun 25 22:10 UTC] No.44360720[source]▶

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I think you're overindexing on tools.

A good dev can produce excellent results rapidly in an entirely "naked" environment. Sure, good tools might help, but you're looking at improvements in the margins - and a lot of this is about your personal joy, not productivity.

If the rate at which you generate value is noticeably gated by which IDE you use... well, you've got a long and exciting journey ahead of you. It's going to be fun, and I don't mean that facetiously.

"knowing your tools" was never called "being a programmer". Best devs I've ever worked with all did absolutely amazing work with more/grep/vi and a lot of thinking. And the thinking is where the value was created. That's still true, even if you throw an LLM into the mix.

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2. benreesman ◴[23 Jun 25 23:02 UTC] No.44361089[source]▶

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I completely agree that being comfortable with basic tools is critical to a versatile software professional because you're routinely in situations where you don't have your kit with you, for every tool on that list there is a GNU userland equivalent that's had basically the same core behavior since the 90s and I switched from DOS and Windows to Linux and GNU, and I am routinely glad that I know how to write useful `find` and `awk` and all that because I'm trying to get some box brought up.

I'm not knocking the classic tooling, it was designed by geniuses who obsessed about tools and tools that build tools (everyone from Ken Thompson to John Carmack are on the record about the importance of tooling).

It's the stock VSCode and Cursor people with an extension or two that are accepting a totally voluntary handicap. Someone in the thread called me a "shell bro", and I mean, that's just asking to get rocked if it's ever on the line against someone serious.

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