Daniel Quinn

Also Ctrl+D to exit any shell and Ctrl+R for reverse searching your history!

Just be careful with files with spaces in the name. There’s an incantation with xargs that I always have to look up when I want to use it safely.

Not in and of itself, but I find that I have a handful of common tricks that I can put into aliases. Also, there’s ffmpeg.app!

I’ve used Starship before, and while it’s quite powerful for formatting what goes into your prompt, I don’t believe there’s any feature in there that will fix the prompt to the top of the screen. The best I could find in the docs was a feature to place some text to the right.

Yes, that’s it exactly.

Hear me out: I want the prompt at the top of the screen.

It’s terribly inconvenient to have the place you’re typping your command into at the bottom. On laptops, your fingers are in the way, and on desktops, you’re always craning your neck looking at the bottom-left.

Imagine instead if your terminal looked like this:

| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| $ curl https://...
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| $ echo "hello"
| hello
| $ ls
| output.png
| goes.txt
| here.webm
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

After a command is entered in the upper pane, it’s appended to the lower pane along with the output just like a normal terminal. Maybe even something like translating Shift+Enter to mean “clear the output pane and run”.

Could Wine help out here?

My guess is it’s the license change. From Wikipedia:

In 2018, some modules for Redis adopted the SSPL. In 2024, the main Redis code switched to dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License v2 and the Server Side Public License v1.

Valkey appears to be a Redis fork that was triggered by the license change, but since Valkey still uses the original BSD license, I’m not sure I’d favour it over Redis since the latter switched licences specifically to prevent abuse of the BSD license by parties like Amazon.

What is the deal with getting gpu acceleration into a terminal emulator of all things? Of all the innovations that we could use, faster drawing of text doesn’t feel like it should be a priority.

This is an excellent idea. Fortunately you’re not the first to have it ;-)

You should look into alias.

Torrent stuff in HD or 4K and play those files instead of trying to stream from a company that won’t offer better than 720p :-)