Just Use Curl

Unix philosophy claims "everything is a file" until you actually try to cat a directory and get slapped with that condescending "Is a directory" error. Ten years into my career and I'm still occasionally typing cat on directories like some junior dev who hasn't been properly traumatized yet. The lie detector determined: that "everything is a file" was a lie. Directories, sockets, pipes—all just teasing us with their file-like appearances while secretly being special snowflakes.

Imagine having the audacity to use your mouse to close a terminal. Pathetic. Real command-line warriors know that typing 'exit' is the digital equivalent of a mic drop. It's not just about closing a window—it's about asserting dominance over your machine. GUI users will never understand the satisfaction of dismissing your terminal with the proper command, like telling your computer "I'm done with you... for now ."

Ah yes, the classic "just use confidence" advice that falls apart when facing Vim. The top panel shows VS Code, React, and Node.js giving that smooth reassurance like they're the cool kids at school. Meanwhile, the bottom panel reveals the horrifying reality of a developer trying to exit Vim for the first time. No amount of confidence prepares you for that moment when you realize :q! might as well be ancient hieroglyphics. The "Are you sure?" is just Vim's way of saying "You sweet summer child, you have no power here."

The duality of every developer's existence captured in one furry package. You claim to want minimalism—clean code, elegant solutions, zen-like simplicity—but then proceed to clear your terminal for the 3,141,592nd time because your debugging session looks like someone dropped a math textbook into a blender. Nothing quite hits that dopamine receptor like watching all your error messages vanish into the void with a quick clear or cls command. It's not fixing the problem, but it sure feels like progress!

Ah, the classic developer paradox! Spend 5 minutes doing a mundane task? Absolutely not. Spend 30 minutes automating that same task? *finger guns* Sign me up! Every programmer knows that sweet dopamine hit from creating a script that saves you approximately 0.03 seconds per year. It's not about efficiency—it's about the principle of never doing manually what could be automated with 6x the effort. The math never checks out, but we'll defend our automation decisions to the death. Future me will thank present me... probably... maybe... if I remember where I saved the script.

Nothing quite like the rush of typing mkdir -p /some/complex/path while someone watches over your shoulder. They think you're hacking the Pentagon, but you're just creating a directory. The terminal is our lightsaber – elegant, powerful, and completely mystifying to the uninitiated. Sure, money buys yachts and status gets you into fancy parties, but making a non-programmer's jaw drop by using basic bash commands? Priceless. And we don't even have the heart to tell them it's the digital equivalent of using a hammer.