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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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953 points speckx | 1 comments | 22 Oct 25 14:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.254s | source
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oceanplexian ◴[22 Oct 25 18:11 UTC] No.45672984[source]▶
It's weird how the circle of life progresses for a developer or whatever.

- When I was a fresh engineer I used a pretty vanilla shell environment

- When I got a year or two of experience, I wrote tons of scripts and bash aliases and had a 1k+ line .bashrc the same as OP

- Now, as a more tenured engineer (15 years of experience), I basically just want a vanilla shell with zero distractions, aliases or scripts and use native UNIX implementations. If it's more complicated than that, I'll code it in Python or Go.

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Mikhail_Edoshin ◴[23 Oct 25 04:09 UTC] No.45678082[source]▶
Given the nature of current operating systems and applications, do you think the idea of “one tool doing one job well” has been abandoned? If so, do you think a return to this model would help bring some innovation back to software development?

Rob Pike: Those days are dead and gone and the eulogy was delivered by Perl.

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1. president_zippy ◴[23 Oct 25 05:46 UTC] No.45678541[source]▶
But was the eulogy written in Perl poetry? I see it everywhere, but I don't know who this JAPH guy is. It's a strange way of spelling Jeff, and it's odd that he types his name in all caps, but he has published a remarkable quantity of works and he's even more famous than the anonymous hacker known as 4chan.