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  • Another really helpful tool is to use the fish shell instead of bash. It has tons of useful features, but my favorite is by far the autocomplete. It parses man pages to provide suggestions for flags, subcommands, even passed arguments, and each item in the results list has a description, and it’s all searchable by hitting shift+tab.

    fish autocomplete subcommands

    fish autocomplete git

    That’s what leveled up my cli game from 0-100. It’s a massive difference in usability and discoverability. And unlike things like nushell, it’s close enough to bash that you won’t feel confused if you have to use bash instead.

















  • I feel the same way. Designing good, opinionated APIs is HARD, but it also provides the best experience for both the author and the consumer.

    • Prettier is the undisputed king of JS formatters because it has no options by design. You set and forget.
    • One of the reasons iOS is so successful is because they lock down their APIs and put strict standards on apps, making it hard to write something that doesn’t at least look good and slot into the OS well.

    Among other examples.