I think I’ve wrapped up my conversion to Fish for the time being. I can honestly say that now that I’m past the tinkering phase, I’m more productive in Fish than I was in Bash. Which is no small claim, I was pretty good at Bash.
fish, scripting, shell, terminal
I’ve become fairly dependent on howzit for running my builds and deploys (and other tasks). By setting up a file for each project, containing lines for each section, I can always run to build or deploy, no matter what task runner/build system I set up for it. , , , , , , it doesn’t matter. I can get the right build command every time without a second thought.
fish, howzit
The surest way for me to not get anything done is to get overwhelmed by the guilt of not getting anything done. I’ve worked for years to solve this little quandary, and I’ve found a key element in the solution: forgiveness.
adhd, personal, productivity
Over the past few months I’ve been playing with Fish, the Friendly Interactive SHell, and I’ve posted a couple of times on the topic. I think I’m sold on it now, and you’ll probably be seeing a lot more Fish posts than Bash ones (though I’ll try to offer Bash equivalents when possible).
extension, fish, git, history, learning, prompt, scripting, shell, ssh, terminal, tools
Hook is a productivity app from CogSci Apps that connects your files, emails, web urls, and other digital breadcrumbs to each other. I’ve mentioned it here and there, but my most detailed writeup was at Lifehacker a little while back.
hookmark, macos, productivity
Back in April I posted a short script for keeping track of the various build systems I use in my projects. You know when you open a directory you haven’t worked on for a while and there’s a Gulp file, a Rakefile, a node_modules folder, and various other cruft that means you’ll have to dig through to recall what commands you were using to build and deploy the project? Or when you know there were specific flags you were using to get the build to work, but you never got around to…
howzit, productivity, terminal
In my last post on the Fish shell, I brazenly stated that “because of the way that Fish handles the prompt function, there’s no easy way to hook it without modifying the original theme files.” That was 100% incorrect, as I figured out the next day.
fish, hookmark, shell, terminal
Given that Apple has already switched the default shell in Catalina from Bash to Zsh, I’ve been thinking I really need to expand from Bash. Don’t get me wrong, I love Bash and I’ve spent years molding it to my liking. The amount of time I’ve put into it and the ease with which that investment allows me to use it has always made switching to anything else seem, well, like a waste of time. But now I feel stuck. To that end, I’ve been stretching out and trying to…
fish, na, plugin, prompt, scripting, shell, source, sublimetext, terminal, themes, zsh
As is always the case with David Sparks’ Field Guides, the iOS 13 edition of The Shortcuts Field Guide got a great response when I mentioned it here. And once again David has kindly provided a few extra codes for BrettTerpstra.com readers. And yes, if you win a code but already purchased the Guide, you can gift it to someone you think deserves it!
automation, giveaway, ios, shortcuts, tutorial, video
