About us #
Ellane has been a designer and educational publisher in Australia for more than 30 years.
She writes about keeping things safe and simple while using the best tool for the job, and how paper can be part of an effective workflow.
Follow her at blog.plaintextpaperless.com.
Johnny is the internet's Johnny.Decimal. His free system gives you the tools you need to organise your digital life.
It helps you find things quickly, with more confidence, and less stress. You can find it at johnnydecimal.com.
On Mastodon, Ellane mentioned that she'd like to 'learn the command line'. What she told Johnny was that she wants to:
- understand what the command line IS
- learn how not to stuff up your machine
- learn what language it speaks
- understand what commands DO, where things go
- know what Homebrew is, why people use it, what it does, and how it does it.
Also she has a 'burning ambition to learn plain text accounting (hledger, specifically)'. So that's where we're headed.
And so that's what we're going to do here. From zero to hero: I'm going to teach Ellane the command line.
We'll do it all live on Mastodon, with every post then mirrored here. This site has an RSS feed (XML, JSON) which your reader should detect.
So follow along however you want.
To-do #
We knocked this together pretty quickly. All feedback is welcome. Johnny will keep the to-do list here.
- Optionally dim some images (e.g. white screenshots) when in dark mode.
Make the Mastodon link on each post nicer (CSS).
Later... #
A list of things that Johnny would like to talk about later.