I've got into the habit of creating a directory for .zip files before decompressing them. I don't bother for tarballs.
The funny thing is that both can decompress to multiple files! It just seems much more common for .zip files to be untidy in this fashion.
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I find it odd that people recommend Docker for sandboxing agentic coding tools. Isn't it easier to just create a separate user account on the machine?
It's an established security boundary, and viewing output is easy (just make the user's home directory world readable).
There are *so many* ways that reading a text file can fail.
Maybe it doesn't exist, it's a broken symlink, it's actually a directory, it's not the encoding you expected, or perhaps you just don't have the correct permissions.
Reporting good errors is surprisingly labour intensive.
I'm experimenting with Atuin for searching my terminal history: https://atuin.sh/
Previously I'd just used fzf to find items, which does work nicely. Occasionally I *really* want to search "commands which were run in this directory" though, which Atuin offers.