Best of Shell — September 2025

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   Bread on Penguins·35w

   bread, why do you use the terminal for everything?

   A developer explains five key reasons for preferring terminal applications over graphical interfaces: consistent Vim keybindings across all tools, easier scripting and automation capabilities, better configuration and customization options, lower system resource consumption, and superior remote work functionality. The discussion acknowledges that graphical applications have their place for tasks like photo editing, emphasizing the importance of choosing the right tool for each specific job.

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   Video

   DevOps Toolbox·36w

   The Ultimate Setup For a Boring Mac Terminal (from scratch!!)

   A comprehensive guide to building an advanced terminal setup from scratch, covering terminal emulators like Ghostty, shells like Nushell, multiplexers like tmux, prompt customization with Starship, and essential CLI utilities like fzf, zoxide, and atuin. The setup emphasizes productivity, visual appeal with Catppuccin theming, and powerful data manipulation capabilities.

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   Video

   Bread on Penguins·37w

   Linux shell tricks to save you time and effort :D

   A collection of practical Linux shell tips and tricks covering ZSH command correction, alias bypassing with backslashes, CSV formatting with the column command, process identification using fuser, system boot time checking with uptime, brace expansion for directory creation, and built-in date formatting alternatives in bash and ZSH.

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