Look ma, no hands!
Following on from the power of keeping things in plain text, a developer should customise their shell just the same way a woodworker would customise their workspace.
Shells are the command line interfaces which let a developer interact more closely with an operating system. Having little experience with shell scripting until recently, getting a Raspberry Pi was a great way of experimenting with the raw efficiency of using a terminal.
One passage in particular today highlighted the importance of “power editing”: becoming so fluent in your editor that your hands need not leave the keyboard:
“Why is this a big deal? Are we saying you’ll save lots of time? Actually yes: over the course of a year, you might actually gain an additional week if you make your editing just 4% more efficient and you edit for 20 hours a week.”
By highlighting the importance of not using a mouse or trackpad, but instead focusing on automating repetitive tasks, a persuasive case was made to simply ditch anything but they keyboard for a week.
Following an initial dip in productivity, editing should become much faster and much more fluent. This is definitely something I’ll be trying!
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