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And not just options but base command names too. I wrote a tool to partially mitigate this in some cases: https://github.com/makesourcenotcode/name-safe-in-bash

Agree that long options should be used. But there is one caveat to consider: portability. Sadly to this day not all BSD distributions have GNU style long options. And the ones that…

Definitely agree with the article that engineers should be more aware of scenarios where those interacting with the systems they build have slow internet. Another thing I think peo…

A cool tool to be sure. However I feel this tool is a crutch for the stupid way browsers handle web pages and shouldn't be necessary in a sane world. Instead of the bullshit browse…

I absolutely stand by my claim that FRT is the Next Generation of FOSS for several reasons. To begin with even now in the 2020s billions of people alive today have never once been …

Good search and offline docs are not mutually exclusive. Grab the HTML version of Python's docs for example. You can search through them totally offline thanks to a bit of JavaScri…

As glad as I am that things like DevDocs and Zeal exist I feel like ultimately they are a crutch and indicative of a much larger problem in Open Source which I'm trying to address.…

I've been working on what I hope is the Next Generation of the Open Source movement. See here to read about how Open Source fails in certain serious ways to be properly open and wh…

This in my opinion is what Open Source should have been.