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shell history (with a shoutout to https://atuin.sh)

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

one thing that kind of bothers me about this post is that it feels like on some level I "should" be explaining what a login shell is (to explain the diff between .bashrc and .bash_profile) https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/13/how-to-add-a-directory-to-your-path/ […] [Original post on social.jvns.ca]

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

might delete this once I get an answer but -- how do you search your history in zsh? I've never really used zsh but it seems like the defaults aren't that helpful: - `history` only shows the last 10 entries (you need to do `history 0` to get all of them I think?) - Ctrl-R doesn't seem to work […]

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I noticed someone mentioning that they couldn't afford "How Git Works" right now. we have a "buy one give one" program where we give away 1 free copy for every zine sold. You can use code BUYONEGIVEONE to get a free PDF copy of How Git Works if $12 is a lot for you […]

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

this feels like a silly thing to say but even though i’ve been using linux since 2004 I feel like i’m learning recently that the impact of the GNU project is even bigger than I thought (please no “it’s GNU/Linux”)

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

how to add a directory to your PATH https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/13/how-to-add-a-directory-to-your-path/

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

this question might be impossible to get an answer to on here, but -- if you're writing CSS and you have a site with like a million pages that you don't remember what you have on them, how do you know your CSS changes won't break anything? I've gingerly started making some very small CSS […]

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

i was trying to explain how you know what directory to add to your PATH when using a new installer (npm, cargo, homebrew, bundler, go, etc) and it was way more difficult to explain than I thought. it feels like - ideally you remember from last time - or the tool prints out directions the first […]

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

been looking into working with a warehouse in the UK (or maybe EU if we can find one) to be able to ship zines to the EU/UK more easily. it's not clear if having another fulfillment center would make EU shipping easier or harder to manage though

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

trying to explain typing in the terminal is so weird, it's like "well when you press keys on your keyboard, we don't really have a consistent way to encode them and send them to your shell, like we kind of do but there's no single standard and it breaks a lot” ctrl-shift-a? not allowed, it's […]

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

the reviews of How Git Works make me so happy to read, my goal was to help people form a clear mental model of Git and it's amazing to hear it's actually working ❤ https://wizardzines.com/zines/git/

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

trying to make a list of "standards" in the terminal environment (or things that are kind of treated like standards if there isn't one) so far I've come up with - POSIX obviously - maybe xterm's escape codes? it seems like “do what xterm does kind of” is sort of a standard - the GNU project […]

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

a funny thing about trying to write about "the terminal" in a holistic way is that I often get pushback (“no julia, the terminal is not 1 thing, it’s the terminal emulator/shell/many different programs/OS terminal driver/etc”) and while that's obviously true, it feels important to me to take […]

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

some terminal frustrations https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/02/05/some-terminal-frustrations/

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I ran this terminal survey and a couple of people said they had problems with copy and paste with “spaces added when copying from the terminal”. I know I've seen this before but I can't reproduce it (except when using tmux with a split window), just copying from tmux (with or without Shift) […]

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

ok the results of the terminal survey I ran a while back on here are up! here's the link: https://jvns.ca/terminal-survey/results-mastodon.html (I ran two copies of the same survey on both mastodon & bluesky, there's a link to the bluesky version on the page)

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

i'm working on a giant terminal cheat sheet with - how to quit - redirect syntax - keyboard shortcuts you can use (including in `less`) - how to set environment variables - some basic useful commands (history, !!, kill/pkill/killall/top, reset, alias, etc) and it's really leaving me feeling […]

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments