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evolution of convenience

Sat 17 January 2026

I have a morning routine which would have seemed awfully complicated to the teenaged me, and is probably ridiculously streamlined to the me reading this entry in 2036. One step of it involves recording a number in a spreadsheet.

a 2 line bash prompt

Sun 02 April 2017

Back in the DOS era of personal computing, the default prompt was the letter name of the current drive, followed by a colon and a >. So A:> or C:> if you were wealthy enough to afford a hard disk. DOS really had only one shell for a great many years: COMMAND.COM.

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