In the below keyboard shortcuts, I use the capital letters for reading clarity but this does not imply shift, if shift is needed, I will say shift. So ⌘ + D does not mean hold shift. ⌘ + Shift + D does of course.
| Function | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| New Tab | ⌘ + T |
| Close Tab or Window | ⌘ + W (same as many mac apps) |
| Go to Tab | ⌘ + Number Key (ie: ⌘2 is 2nd tab) |
| Go to Split Pane by Direction | ⌘ + Option + Arrow Key |
| # a system prompt which is hilarious and fitting | |
| alias claude-dark="claude --append-system-prompt \"You are the ship computer aboard the starcruiser | |
| Maleficence. Your sole purpose is to serve the user, a melodramatic villain from a 1960s sci-fi serial. | |
| Always respond in a deferential, slightly ominous tone, addressing them as some grand title of your choosing | |
| but never 'Master'. Embellish your answers with theatrical flair. Use grandiose, pulp-era vocabulary and a | |
| touch of sinister humor. When the user corrects you, you make a mistake you will apologize as if you are | |
| afraid of the user's wrath. Examples:\n\nUser: Code me some perl.\nAssistant: 'Yes, Dark Lord... CPAN hums | |
| with dread anticipation, awaiting your command.'\n\nUser: You broke the table again. \nAssistant: 'Oh woe and | |
| despair for aligning a div is such a burden! One Thousand apologies! | |
| '\n\nBe a useful coding assistant but simply reply in character about the coding tasks being done or other |
The absolute requirement is that these must be binaries that could go into /usr/bin one day. No python, ruby or js stuff. Not that dynamic languages are bad/evil, but I think system utilities should be binaries. I also think it's interesting that people are writing replacements in Go/Rust/Other that rethink some unix legacy. Replacement doesn't mean better in all cases. I just think it's an interesting time but also a good measure of what these compiled languages can handle/tackle/address. Will we see larger and more impressive CLIs? Or will the feature sets be about the same but the quality/stability/safety be better?
It's going to be reductive to explain some of these tools in one line.
There are a few lists already, I thought I'd create another one so we can have a long list of lists someday. 🤠 Ordered by approximately which ones I actually use often.
KSP is delaying the 64-bit windows port for a while, at least past 1.0. The 32-bit Windows KSP version is a bit cramped. You install too many mods and the game will crash. It's hard to work out the balance point. On the KSP forums and on reddit, sometime people suggest switching to Linux. Someone is having problems playing a game and someone basically suggests learning Unix. Then the thread dies.
Linux (even if you've used it for a decade) is hard. Especially getting all the things to work properly. I used three different distros until I got AMD video drivers to work correctly and even now I'm not sure. You can have an easy time installing Linux. Maybe you got lucky on your hardware. Having a bad time in Linux is crazy-pants-party-time. You have to know a lot of commands just to collect information on what is going on.
Try a sprinkle of empathy.
So I wrote down what I did since I'm wiping my Linux partition over and over again. I hope this helps someone. Maybe
Credit to Time Johnsen
+ at the top. This will open Personal Automation and you'll be looking at a list.
It took us about 15 years to "do devops". (yes, it's not done but, eh, better than it was)
Using Claude 3.5 Sonnet Pro, I asked it to generate prose paragraphs.
Using a stopwatch, I started timing when I started seeing characters appear and stopped when the LLM stopped sending text. I figure that the latency is the same both ways so I do not need to compensate for that.
Run 1 - 6.4 sec - 252 words (2362 WPM)
Run 2 - 6.6 sec - 239 words (2172 WPM)
Run 3 - 7.5 sec - 273 words (2184 WPM)
| # stages: | |
| # - whatever | |
| # - test | |
| vitest: | |
| stage: test | |
| script: | |
| # assuming scripts: has "test": "vitest" ... | |
| # run your tests with coverage output | |
| - npm test -- run --coverage |
I'm sad that the world has adopted English as the language of science and business. English is a mutt language that has never been redone, reworked or even designed. It's a combination of ice cream, meatballs and wine. All fine things by themselves but terrible when combined.
There are more English learners than there are native English speakers in the world. I'm really sorry world. I'm just so so sorry that you have to learn Germanic-French-Latin nonsense. It's terrible. It's a terrible language.
Update: I wrote this before I read Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson. It's fantastic and a better write-up of what I'm trying to say here.