One upside of installing GhostBSD is that I have been introduced to the fish shell. Fish is an alternative to the bash shell. It turns out it is quite nice! I suppose I could have found this sooner, but I have never gone looking for a new shell, because bash is, well, so ubiquitous that… Continue reading Fish shell
Category: shell
Further into GitHub Actions
Since my last post, I’ve been moving more things over to GitHub Actions. It has been an interesting journey. Some things are pretty straightforward to port from PythonAnywhere Tasks. Others have puzzled me a bit more. As an example of the latter, I wanted to set up my rss-to-mastodon bot as a GitHub Action. It’s… Continue reading Further into GitHub Actions
On trying (and failing) to learn shell scripting
I tried to lean shell scripting in the summer of 2000. It seemed doable: isn’t it basically executing a bunch of shell commands in a row? I got some books, which I read half-heartedly, tried a few things, and then gave up. Shell scripting, which I had hoped would be the easiest entrée into programming,… Continue reading On trying (and failing) to learn shell scripting
