Good CLI Design Is Mostly Silence

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RickS•about 5 hours ago

In particular, the PG essay contains exactly one designed-to-be-quoted pat-yourself-on-the-back really-send-it-home-ism:

> Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas.

This entire link is nothing but those. I don't feel like I'm being spoken to, let alone taught to. I feel like I'm being repeatedly poked with a finger that really wants me to know it has punchy ideas. Which backfires, ofc.

vintagedave•about 3 hours ago

Every paragraph two lines long max.

It feels like it's treating the reader as unintelligent. It's like a hammer every sentence.

renyicircle•about 2 hours ago

That's probably just Claude. I do enjoy finding new ways to call out the patterns it uses though.

pvdebbe•about 5 hours ago

A command is something I shout to an underling or my shell prompt. My shell interpreter takes my command, parses it and calls the necessary tool, be it a builtin or an executable.

I tell Tom to fetch the morning paper from the yard. Is Tom a command? No, Tom is my son.

nojs•about 3 hours ago

Flagged as slop. What is the point of posting something like this if you can’t even be bothered to write it yourself?

Good CLI Design Is Mostly Silence

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