miniblog.

I'm increasingly treating terminal sessions as short lived: starting a fresh terminal tab keeps scrollback short and easy to search. I'd love to have a terminal emulator that allows me to skip over output of specific verbose commands when searching.

If I'm about to run a complex or scary terminal command, I like putting echo in front of it: $ echo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/... It's a nice way of having a last check of your command. The command is now in your scrollback, as well as your history.

I've started seeing programming communities on Discord (Clojure, Pharo, Lisp). It's not perfect, but it is really nice to have scrollback when you join a channel, and you don't need an IRC bouncer