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<p>Last fall, I forgot my laptop at work, but I wanted to write something.</p>
<p>And then I remembered that I had a Raspberry Pi sitting around.</p>
<p>So I set it up and started writing things on it.</p>
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<p>And I got to thinking:  This is just a stupid Linux computer without any graphics.</p>
<p>There&rsquo;s nothing here but the command line and some programs that do stuff toplain text files.</p>
<p>And this is how I am happiest as a writer.</p>
<p>Not as a <em>programmer</em>, or a <em>clever unix dork</em>, but as a <em>writer</em>.</p>
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<pre><code>$ cowthink I should write a book about this. ___________________________________( I should write a book about this. ) -----------------------------------        o   ^__^         o  (oo)\_______            (__)\       )\/\                ||----w |                ||     ||</code></pre>
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<p>So here&rsquo;s my thesis:</p>
<h1><a name=Unix-is-for-normal-humans href=#Unix-is-for-normal-humans></a> Unix is for normal humans.</h1>
<p>Wizards are cool and all, but most of us aren&rsquo;t wizards.</p>
<p>Most of us are just bumbling through life.</p>
<p>A lot of us like to make stuff anyway.</p>
<p>Unix is for that.</p>
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<h1><a name=cool-story-bro href=#cool-story-bro></a> cool story bro</h1>
<h1><a name=wtf-is-unix href=#wtf-is-unix></a> wtf is unix?</h1>
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<p style="text-align:center;"> <img src="../images/jp_unix.jpg"></p>
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<p>&hellip;except what classical Unix really looks like is this:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"> <img src="../images/blinking.gif" width="700"></p>
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<p>And a lot of the time, modern Unix-like systems look like this:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"> <img src="../images/debian.png"></p>
<p>&hellip;which isn&rsquo;t actually that unfamiliar, right?</p>
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<ul><li><p>At SparkFun, we do a lot of stuff over serial.</p></li><li><p>Once upon a time, most of the interfaces to Really Serious Computers &ndash; theones at universities and in government &ndash; worked like debugging Arduinocode over a serial port.</p></li><li><p>The computer prints stuff, you type stuff to the computer, the computerprints stuff.  It&rsquo;s just text in a box.</p></li><li><p>Even once we got PCs in our houses, a lot of the interfaces shared thisheritage.  Remember DOS?  Ever have to fire up cmd.exe on Windows?</p></li></ul>

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<p>In 2014, the Serious way you interact with Serious Computers &ndash; the ones thatmost of the internet runs on &ndash; is still through a text terminal.</p>
<p>If you stop by my desk at work, my screen probably looks like this:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"> <img src=fake_desktop.png width=1200px></p>
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<p>But we&rsquo;re not here to talk about Serious Computers.</p>
<p>We&rsquo;re here to talk about how the command line is for normal human beings.</p>
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<pre><code>YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING.AROUND YOU IS A FOREST.  A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING ANDDOWN A GULLY.
&gt; GO EAST
YOU ARE INSIDE A BUILDING, A WELL HOUSE FOR A LARGE SPRING.
THERE ARE SOME KEYS ON THE GROUND HERE.
THERE IS A SHINY BRASS LAMP NEARBY.
THERE IS FOOD HERE.
THERE IS A BOTTLE OF WATER HERE.</code></pre>
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<p style="text-align:center;"> <img src="fuckit.jpeg" width=800></p>
<p>Now is where Brennen goes to the shell and fumbles around in front of anaudience.</p>
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<p>So that&rsquo;s the shell.  Want a shell?</p>
<p>I will give you a shell <em>right now</em>.  Talk to me.</p>
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