Like Programming In Bash

Finally, a Git tutorial that makes sense! The landing plane is git commit - safely touching down with your changes. The takeoff is git push - launching your code into the remote repo with a prayer it doesn't crash. And git add ? That's just people desperately climbing onto a sketchy ladder in the middle of nowhere - exactly how it feels tracking files before you've figured out what half of them even do. Ryanair's budget operations perfectly capture the bare-minimum approach most of us take with version control. "Yeah, I'll just commit directly to main. What could possibly go wrong?"

Ah, the advanced archaeological technique of bash history spelunking. Why waste 30 seconds reading documentation when you can spend 20 minutes scrolling through 4 months of commands trying to find that one magical incantation you used once? It's not laziness, it's efficiency... just with extra steps and questionable results. The true mark of a seasoned developer isn't knowing all the commands - it's knowing approximately when you last used the one you need.

The Linux distribution hierarchy strikes again! Our protagonist thinks they've ascended to Linux enlightenment by ditching Ubuntu for Arch, only to realize they've just traded one form of normie-dom for another. It's the classic Linux user journey—thinking you're special for using something more complex, then discovering there's always someone running a custom kernel compiled on a potato who thinks you're the casual. The irony is delicious—no matter how deep you go into Linux elitism, you're still someone else's normie. It's turtles distros all the way down!

Nobody memorizes those tar flags. We just mentally translate them to "German beer guy compressing files." The 'c' is for create, 'x' is for extract, and 'z' is for gzip compression, but who has time for that? After 15 years in the terminal, I still mutter "create ze file" and "extrakt ze file" in a terrible accent while praying the command works. And if it doesn't? Just add more flags until something happens!

The perfect illustration of the Linux vs Windows dynamic. Windows users can't even uninstall Edge without the OS having an existential crisis, but Linux will happily let you delete critical system components if you use sudo . It's like Windows is your overprotective mom who won't let you touch the stove, while Linux is that cool uncle who hands you fireworks and says "figure it out, kiddo." The bootloader is basically what tells your computer how to start up. Deleting it is like removing the ignition from your car and expecting it to still run. But with great sudo power comes great responsibility—and apparently zero oversight.

Ah, the gentle bedtime reading for Linux developers—a chapter on "Process Primitives" that escalates from "Having Children" (fork() calls) to "Watching Your Children Die" (handling terminated child processes) in approximately 0.2 seconds. The progression from spawning processes to murdering them, with a nostalgic pit stop at vfork() for the greybeards, perfectly captures the existential horror that is Linux process management. Nothing says "totally normal operating system" like documentation that reads like a serial killer's manifesto. And they wonder why therapists ask Linux developers if they're "killing children" at work.