2026-04-30 15:07 UTC
Confession: I mostly hate command lines and I think the obsession with them in the tech world is basically a cultural signifier and little else. I constantly see obtuse command line interfaces that are worse in every way than simple GUI would be, but are preferred, I guess, on the grounds that that’s what the epic bigshot “coders” use.
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@kevin@fedi.kbg.sh 2026-04-30 15:13
Also: as anyone who has followed my work will know, the “simplicity” of plain text is illusory. Like I recently saw a “text editor” that explicitly had RTL text “out of scope.” That’s not a text editor, that’s an English editor. You can make anything simple by being a cultural chauvinist!