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
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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.
The only reason I sometimes use `more` instead of `less` is that `more` doesn't clear the screen, so you can see output in your scrollback.
Turns out that `less -X` does this! Handy.