alt.hn

7/29/2026 at 3:40:17 AM

Good CLI Design Is Mostly Silence

https://yarlson.dev/blog/good-cli-design-is-mostly-silence/

by ankitg12

7/29/2026 at 7:09:39 AM

In particular, the PG essay contains exactly one designed-to-be-quoted pat-yourself-on-the-back really-send-it-home-ism:

> Informal language is the athletic clothing of ideas.

This entire link is nothing but those. I don't feel like I'm being spoken to, let alone taught to. I feel like I'm being repeatedly poked with a finger that really wants me to know it has punchy ideas. Which backfires, ofc.

by RickS

7/29/2026 at 9:35:23 AM

Every paragraph two lines long max.

It feels like it's treating the reader as unintelligent. It's like a hammer every sentence.

by vintagedave

7/29/2026 at 9:48:02 AM

That's probably just Claude. I do enjoy finding new ways to call out the patterns it uses though.

by renyicircle

7/29/2026 at 7:18:52 AM

A command is something I shout to an underling or my shell prompt. My shell interpreter takes my command, parses it and calls the necessary tool, be it a builtin or an executable.

I tell Tom to fetch the morning paper from the yard. Is Tom a command? No, Tom is my son.

by pvdebbe

7/29/2026 at 9:22:57 AM

Flagged as slop. What is the point of posting something like this if you can’t even be bothered to write it yourself?

by nojs

7/29/2026 at 1:06:45 PM

holy slopperoni

by pentakkusu