I have no idea why but I wanted to hate this article. Maybe jvns shows up on HN too often and I was in a bad mood. But this is a great article and as someone with 20 years of development experience is about as true as any meta-level discussion on programming could be.
The selective vision thing is so true, both for `dig` and for `man` pages. I can't count the number of times have I `man <cmd>` and just felt overwhelmed by the seemingly endless pages of configuration options and command line flags. One tip I use for `man` is use vim style search functions triggered with `/`. For example, if I want to find how to output the line number of each match in grep and I can't remember how - I'll just `man grep` then type `/line` and hit enter and it will search for any occurrence of the word "line" in the man page. Next match is just `/<enter>`.
I'm also a bit sad to hear that Strange Loop is now finished? I only found them last year or so and it seemed like so many of the talks were exceptional quality.
> I'm also a bit sad to hear that Strange Loop is now finished? I only found them last year or so and it seemed like so many of the talks were exceptional quality.
You might want to watch Alex Miller's talk that has been uploaded recently:
The selective vision thing is so true, both for `dig` and for `man` pages. I can't count the number of times have I `man <cmd>` and just felt overwhelmed by the seemingly endless pages of configuration options and command line flags. One tip I use for `man` is use vim style search functions triggered with `/`. For example, if I want to find how to output the line number of each match in grep and I can't remember how - I'll just `man grep` then type `/line` and hit enter and it will search for any occurrence of the word "line" in the man page. Next match is just `/<enter>`.
I'm also a bit sad to hear that Strange Loop is now finished? I only found them last year or so and it seemed like so many of the talks were exceptional quality.