or be boring and alias sl=ls
So I installed this way back in the day on my prod corporate VMs. I was still green, and any prod issues would shake me so much, it was too stressful.
I taught myself to relax when the locomotive pops up, take a few deep breaths and go on.
It was super effective. I learned to not get so flustered, and stopped messing commands due to adrenaline. I no longer install it anywhere, but it still puts a smile and a wave of nostalgia when I see or hear about it.
Such a small thing, yet it helped me grow so much.
Installing SL is part of my standard cloud-init config.
Not a mistake but a fun reminder that the terminal can be a very fun place!
fortune | cowsay -f stimpy _________________________________________ / Poverty Jet Set: \ | | | A group of people given to chronic | | traveling at the expense of long-term | | job stability or a permanent residence. | | Tend to have doomed and extremely | | expensive phone-call relationships with | | people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to | | discuss frequent-flyer programs at | | parties. | | | | -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: | | Tales for an Accelerated | | | \ Culture" / ----------------------------------------- \ . _ . \ |\_|/__/| / / \/ \ \ /__|O||O|__ \ |/_ \_/\_/ _\ | | | (____) | || \/\___/\__/ // (_/ || | || | ||\ \ //_/ \______// __ || __|| (____(____)Blinkenlights appears to no longer exist :(
Still works do me.
figlet "Linux Rocks!" _ _ ____ _ _ | | (_)_ __ _ ___ __ | _ \ ___ ___| | _____| | | | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | |_) / _ \ / __| |/ / __| | | |___| | | | | |_| |> < | _ < (_) | (__| <\__ \_| |_____|_|_| |_|\__,_/_/\_\ |_| \_\___/ \___|_|\_\___(_)
I love dev work like this. Computers should be fun again.
I prefer “the fuck” https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
The fuck is awesome.
Yeah, that’s going to be installed tomorrow.
thefuck is abandoned, you could try https://github.com/iffse/pay-respects instead
I saw it wasn’t maintained, after I posted. Was pretty bummed. Thanks for this!
I thought this was going to be about “the fuck”
Someone installed this across our 2500 machine entire fleet back in 2013. I wanted to fucking punch him in the dick, especially during incidents where every second matters.
The point is to make you slow down. Going fast and breaking things worse is not good during an incident.
If you typed
sland actually pressed enter before confirming what you typed, you deserve what you gotA smashed keyboard? How will provoking a hulk incident fix anything?
If your reaction to someone telling you to slow down because you’re being reckless by not confirming what you type on the CLI before pressing enter is to smash your keyboard, you should be fired
And in that case, sl has done its job of removing reckless people from dangerously powerful positions
“Sorry boss, but the text train delayed us 5 seconds and causes us to lose millionsnof dollars” Boss: “The wat?”
In fintech and at scale, you aren’t far off!
I eventually got the damn thing removed at least.
Sounds like a horrific, stressful job. How do you cope with that?
I get paid well! And at the point I’d left the job we’d gotten everything stable so that the incidents dropped off and weren’t as impactful.
Tech is weird compared to other industries, in that actual mistakes that cause outages aren’t really punished… unless it’s something egregious or you didn’t follow rules like “don’t cowboy stuff in prod, use peer reviewed plans”. It’s generally “blameless” in the postmortems, you take what you learned from it and add to the procedures to make sure that exact issue doesn’t happen again.
Sounds quite a lot like working in science actually. Just better paid, I’d imagine
It’s pretty great if you land the right job. Amazon or meta? Fuck all that. But via my network I found a nice startup (after being at two big fintech companies) that pays me crazy San Francisco bucks while I live in Ohio.
And yeah, I’m very privileged and I’m well aware of it. Especially for a college drop out who majored in English….
Since I’m so privileged I make sure I do what I can to help others though, lots of donations to orgs and I do some volunteering to hand out food to the needy on weekend. It’s to help with the cognitive dissonance and the feeling like “I don’t deserve this”
Oof. Were they found and removed from the org?
Nah it was a pretty immature company at the time, just told not to do shit like that anymore.
Once we ipo’d and put on big boy pants, that would have been at least a reprimand.
Shoulda made the alias instead it sounds like!
This is exactly the type of thing I love.
If we’re sharing silly useless projects, I quite like “activate linux”, the configurable watermark inspired by “Activate Windows”.
It’s unfortunately not a strictly terminal based goof, but wanted to share anyway.This isn’t useless. It serves a purpose.
It’s for interns who fat finger commands to force them to slow down and be more intentional and verify their commands before pressing enter.
alias l="ls", I’m immune to this problemOr
ll='ls -laFh'to have it just how I like it
sl | lolcatI love how knowledge shedding makes this a cyclical discovery.
im currently baking this into our hpc. people gotta see the train!
I would get slightly amused every time I typed “lust” instead of “list” as a kid in applesoft basic.
…now the question is do we want to implement a command for that
don’t forget to install gti
Ah yes. When you need to slow the fuck down.
steam locomotive
rolling down the track
