Capital de TokensDon't eliminate cd: take it out of the driver's seat
Watch on YouTube The point is not to retire `cd`. The point is to take it out of the driver's seat. There is a very clear parallel with maps. Knowing how to navigate using streets, directions, and landmarks is still useful. But no one boasts about rejecting a digital map to memorize every turn in a huge city. We use the map because we want to get
The point is not to retire cd. The point is to take it out of the driver’s seat. There is a very clear parallel with maps. Knowing how to navigate using streets, directions, and landmarks is still useful. But no one boasts about rejecting a digital map to memorize every turn in a huge city. We use the map because we want to get there, not because we want to prove that we remember every avenue. In the terminal, however, there is a curious culture that sometimes confuses suffering with competence. Some people believe that memorizing complex paths, mastering cryptic shortcuts, or writing increasingly compact commands is proof of technical purity. It isn’t. Competence is not about mechanically repeating a slow task. It is about recognizing which parts of your routine deserve automation.
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