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Reference notes for the Creating a Command Line Driven Development Environment talk.

References

Reference notes for the Creating a Command Line Driven Development Environment talk.

Here's a direct link to download the slides and the video is available on YouTube. Thanks for having me nyhackr!

• Nick's Sites
• Parsing Data on the Command Line
• Terminal
• Open Source Projects
• Tmux and Vim
• Dotfiles

Nick's Sites

Blog / Podcast

• https://nickjanetakis.com
• https://runninginproduction.com

Twitter / YouTube

• https://twitter.com/nickjanetakis
• https://www.youtube.com/c/nickjanetakis

Courses

• https://diveintodocker.com
• https://buildasaasappwithflask.com

Parsing Data on the Command Line

The CSV file and command examples are in this directory.

• Jeroen Janssens' talk on using the command line

Terminal

Emulators

Feel free to pick a different emulator if you don't like any of the ones below.

• https://github.com/microsoft/terminal (Windows)
• https://invisible-island.net/xterm/ (Linux)
• https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2 (macOS)
• https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty (Cross platform)

Shells

I prefer using Bash but here's a few alternative options to explore.

• https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
• https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh
• https://fishshell.com/

Prompt / Colors

I'm all for a minimal prompt that focuses on the commands being run and their output.

• https://starship.rs/ (batteries included prompt if you prefer this instead)
• https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Controlling-the-Prompt.html
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code#Colors

Open Source Projects

Here's a few open source tools I created. Feel free to use them as references.

Shell Scripts

• https://github.com/nickjj/latest-releases
• https://github.com/nickjj/wait-until
• https://github.com/nickjj/invoice
• https://github.com/nickjj/notes

Python Scripts

• https://github.com/nickjj/webserver
• https://github.com/nickjj/title-case-converter
• https://github.com/nickjj/verdiff

Tmux and Vim

• Tmux / Vim specific blog posts and videos
• Tmux cheat sheet

Dotfiles

The README file in my dotfiles repo contains installation instructions for all of the tools that I use on the command line. It's catered towards native Linux (Debian / Ubuntu) and WSL but there's macOS instructions too.

This link leads to the master branch of my dotfiles:

• https://github.com/nickjj/dotfiles

Here's a list of specific config files as they were at the time of this talk:

• .profile
• .bashrc
• .aliases
• .tmux.conf
• .vimrc

Notable Tools

In case something crazy happens with my dotfiles repo in the future, here's a list of command line tools mentioned and demonstrated in the talk:

• https://github.com/tmux/tmux
• https://github.com/vim/vim
• https://github.com/junegunn/fzf
• https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

Getting set up with WSL 2

This video goes over my entire WSL 2 set up and also includes non-command line tools that I use on Windows. It's basically a 30 minute drive-by of everything I use and how I have everything configured.

• https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/a-linux-dev-environment-on-windows-with-wsl-2-docker-desktop-and-more

Also, here's a a complete list of all of the tools I use on Windows in text form.

Dotfiles Management

If you don't want to use symlinks, there are dedicated tools such as https://yadm.io/ and many others.

Also, check out the XDG Base Directory Specification to learn more about where user specific files should go.