Stop Using Spaces In Filenames

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.

The sign makes a brilliant wordplay on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), one of the most popular enterprise Linux distributions. "Can't spell HATRED without REDHAT" is a savage burn that sysadmins who've battled RHEL licensing or compatibility issues will feel in their souls. The irony is delicious—a system designed to be reliable and enterprise-grade being associated with pure frustration. Anyone who's ever spent 3 hours trying to install a package that worked perfectly on Ubuntu knows this special kind of pain. It's the computing equivalent of stepping on a LEGO while barefoot.

OH. MY. GOD. The AUDACITY of this kernel developer confessing his darkest sin! 💀 Using a GUI for Git is basically like admitting you put pineapple on pizza while working at an Italian restaurant. The command line purists are literally SHAKING right now. Meanwhile, she's having an existential crisis because deep down she knows that even she has installed GitKraken during moments of weakness. The shame! The horror! The convenience of drag-and-drop merge conflict resolution!

Spending 10 days to automate a 10-minute task isn't a waste of time—it's an investment in your sanity. Sure, the math doesn't add up until you've run that script 144 times, but who's counting? The true victory is never having to do that mind-numbing task manually again. Plus, those 10 days weren't just coding—they included 9 days of procrastination, Stack Overflow deep dives, and telling everyone how you're "optimizing workflow." The smug satisfaction alone is worth the time deficit.

Remember when you used to name files like "My Cool Project" and thought spaces were perfectly fine? Then you discovered the command line and suddenly those spaces became the bane of your existence. Nothing quite matches the rage of typing out a long filepath only to have the terminal choke because you forgot to escape those damn spaces with backslashes or quotes. Now you're out here naming everything with_underscores_like_a_cultist because the thought of dealing with "My\ Documents" makes your eye twitch. The command line doesn't forgive, and it sure as hell doesn't forget.

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."