According to Larry Wall, there are three great virtues of a programmer.
If you do any web development, you’ve probably used the Chrome console extensively—it’s great for testing out CSS changes, Javascript debugging, and a host of other web-related tasks.
As a Python developer, I used to spend a lot of time monotonously scrolling up to the top of a Python file, adding the appropriate import statements for whatever module I needed, then scrolling back down to where I was.
If you ever use your terminal, you’ve no doubt found yourself typing the same commands over and over again. To speed that process up, you’ve probably made a few aliases — simple commands that automate common tasks: cd’ing into a deep directory, tailing and grepping logs, running…
Git’s great, but typing out all those commands can get a bit verbose at times. Here are five aliases that…