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I used to question alternative CLI ui/ux.

Not anymore:

> Coworker who sees me looking at something in a browser: "Glad you're not busy; I need you to do this, this, this..."

> Coworker who sees me staring intently at a command prompt: Backs away, slowly...

Well played.



With 5 monitors one always has code and another terminals/slack. The third always twitch or baseball. No one can tell.

I'll leave games open and an idea full screen on the Central monitor. What am I doing? Even I don't know


Boss keys[1] should be standard for every website. The March Madness[2] one for example. There are some good ones developed for Reddit to look like Outlook[3], shell [4], etc.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

[2] https://www.ncaa.com/march-madness-live/boss

[3] http://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit//

[4] https://redditshell.com/


My "boss key" was Alt+Tab. No need to reinvent the wheel


Always be running emerge --sync and emerge --update --verbose in some window

Noted


I've been a remote worker for so long this comment actually surprised me. I forgot games like this have to be played in the workplace


That is such a good point. Applies to spouses and toddlers too for the work from home crowd.


Toddlers that know the difference between browsers and command prompts should be enlisted.




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