Comment by bern4444 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by bern4444 | Hacker News Reader

There's very little in here that is _unique_ to front end developers. This is more of an introduction to the terminal article. You have a web background and so perhaps wanted to frame this with that context but I think this is better off with a title of something more akin to `Introduction to the Terminal`.

The only thing in here related to web is the `npm` command. Everything else, git, terminal tabs, meaning of `$` is generic to any engineer, front end, back end, ML, AI etc.

What's missing that is critical in any Here's How to Use the Terminal article is showing the `man` command. I think showing other popular commands like `mv`, `cp`, `pwd`, and using `ctrl-r` to reverse search should also be included.

I also think Hyper is not a great terminal to start out with. The default terminal that ships on someone's computer is usually the best. If you're going to use any other terminal emulator, I'd say iTerm2 or Alacritty should be suggested.

The author glosses over the differences between bash and zsh (and fails to mention that Apple used to use bash, and switched to zsh).

The author should have stressed that these and many other shells implement the POSIX shell, which is fundamental to them all from a scripting perspective.

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...

POSIX-1.2017, man7, where Ubuntu man pages are online and other distro manual pages, macOS man page differences, understanding shell built-ins vs commands, etc.

Yeah. I don’t think I have ever once seen a blog article point to primary sources. MDN, for example for web developers, not a primary source.

Sometimes I wonder if people ever ask themselves how people answering questions on Stack Overflow or people writing Medium articles found out what they’re teaching to others.

People are too afraid of reading documentation.

MDN, for example for web developers, not a primary source.

I’m used to visiting the HTML standard, I think it’s quite friendly considering how much it has grown… CSS2 was still doable for me, but I find the current mesh of CSS standards completely impenetrable at this point. And with JavaScript plus the DOM… yeah, I’ll take MDN as almost primary, an authoritative encyclopedia for web development.

I gave an hour presentation on the basics of CSS to my department as a junior. Other asked how I learned it so quickly and where from.

I just read MDN and W3 for like a month while making slides, then played around for a bit with all I learned on an example app. No one had taken the time to do that before I guess?

you are right, but Hyber automatically has a bit of visual enhancements without needing to configure much and I believe that's the angle, the author is trying to bring to front-end developers who work visually a lot.

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