@kasdeya "That's amazing! You type random characters and it does what you want!" -- my then-girlfriend watching me use Vim

Regarding https://cryptid.cafe/objects/b3c23a32-b3d9-45c7-9174-9301a5c8ea67: I spent fifteen years using Git, and for much of that was considered the Local Git Expert. I definitely didn't know everything about it, but I understood the (beautiful!) underlying model well enough to mostly see through the (awful!) UI and fix most problems that arose for me and my colleagues. Git was my friend. Git had my back. Git let me boldly try things out. Git helped me find problems. Git told me how the heck we got into this state and why.

Now I work in a job where I have to switch between Perforce and CVS (yes, I *know*), both of which have totally different internal models and totally different awful UIs. It feels like I've lost a limb.

@kasdeya

@kasdeya when you're trying to solve a merge conflict but end up reading esoteric Dutch papers on graph theory to understand exactly how fucked you are

someone on reddit: *asks a question about pianos on r/PianoQuestions because they’re interested in pianos*

a chronically online, deeply insecure white man: *pushes up anime glasses* ohohoho, you fool! you imbecile! you don’t understand pianos at all! allow me to educate you on just how wrong and stupid your question really is! pianos just so happen to be one of my most passionate interests, and instead of sharing that interest with you I am going to belittle you for knowing less than me!

@iris_meredith thank you! ^_^ it’s totally fine if you forget though

WoW:

• is it fun for everyone else? yes, on purpose
• is it fun for me? yes, accidentally

OSRS:

• is it fun for everyone else? yes, despite Jagex’s best efforts
• is it fun for me? yes, despite Jagex’s best efforts

@iris_meredith omg interesting! I would love to read those studies if you happen to find them again. I’m ngl that would not surprise me at all

I love how, when I tell WoW players the way that I play WoW, their immediate response is complete bafflement and a little bit of fear. like “what the fuck is wrong with you, you psychopath” kind of energy

that’s right, normies. fear my playstyle and despair

@static @Lunaphied @StryderNotavi I looked into it in the past because I love Python, but one thing that it does that I find very cursed is:

IIRC, the way that it determines whether something is Python or a shell command is that it tries to run it as Python, and if it gets a syntax error it runs it as a shell command instead. or maybe vice-versa. but that sounds like it carries a lot of potential footguns with it

(I actually really really like Vim. I don’t know if it actually saves me effort 90% of the time but it just brings me autistic joy to type some arcane shit like :'<,'>norm ^f(ci("foo"^]A; and have that actually do something useful)

have you ever wanted to turn a 30 second text file edit into a 15 minute code golf exercise? well now you can, with Vim: the official editor of autistic transfemmes. making text editing unnecessarily complicated since 1991

@kasdeya

https://ohshitgit.com/

@static oohhh - I really like this! like I can instantly tell what this is doing instead of it being a mess of special characters like a lot of bash scripts look like to me lol

95% of the time all you need to know about git is add, commit, push, and pull. maybe log if you want to see a list of commits

but then the other 5% of the time it’s suddenly like

!!! you didn't transverse the planes before ancilpating the forward inverse!! entering CRITICAL DATA RECOVERY MODE NOW!!!

and I’m like “uhh uhh uhh” *frantically googles and copy-pastes a command that looks like git refdraft -qXR hdd::~475.2* “phew! that either fixed it or corrupted everything!”

version control is the best

@static ooh how would it work?

every time I type a special character in bash it’s like it was waiting all day for me to make that mistake

every time I git commit on Linux I end up doing something like:

git commit -m "add unit-tests for `(lambda)` closures"

and then bash sees the grave characters inside of the double quotes and is like “ohohoho! you fool!”

the first rule of bash is Never Use Double Quotes

the first rule of cmd.exe is Never Use Single Quotes

happy halloween