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I’ve been working on a small experiment around a semantic shell. The basic idea is that the user types something like: copy report.pdf to backup and a small local model maps that to a known tool: filesystem.copy The shell then takes over. It v...

From Game Cheats to C Shell: Matheus’s Journey Into Programming A CoderLegion Developer Story featuring Matheushttps://coderlegion.com/user/MProG10 Interviewed and edited by Mehadi Hasan, Community & Editorial Team at CoderLegion Matheus has been...

!https://dev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/3nlbnailt76s4m5xallg.png Hello. Recently, I've added a new feature to the C shell. This feature is for one-line control structure parsing. Now, after this work, I've reimplemented fu...

!https://dev-to-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/mofrtzuk654jozzv3zhu.jpeg Hello. I'm writing this post as a matter of contribution. I forked Tcsh, and added some features. My most-recent contribution is on one-line control structu...

Hey fam This is my first ever dev article, and yes - I'm nervous. So real talk — nobody warned me that learning to code would sometimes feel like arguing with a robot that's always right and never explains why you're wrong. That robot? Git. If ...

Every experienced Linux user has been there: you install something, or move directories around, and suddenly command not found appears for tools you know are installed. You check which, type, echo $PATH, and still waste 10-20 minutes hunting down th...

> "Can it be simpler?" - A recurring thought I've had while working on build automation. EasyShellhttps://github.com/MethodoxTech/EasyShell command: easy is a minimal shell scripting language designed from the ground up for simplicity and cross-plat...

As we roll out more tools, both internal and public, there has been a growing need for easy-to-maintain shell scripting and build automation. Build automation is complex enough without all the syntax burden - my favorite is to use PowerShell, but oft...

If you run Linux on a system with both an integrated GPU and a dedicated GPU, you may have noticed something strange: some monitoring tools only show one GPU. This situation is common on: laptops with hybrid graphics desktops with iGPU + dedicated...

Every time I opened a terminal, I waited. Not long — maybe a second and a half — but long enough to notice. Long enough to be annoying. I finally decided to profile my zsh startup, and what I found took it from 1.4 seconds down to 53 milliseconds. H...

Every time I opened a terminal, I waited. Not long — maybe a second and a half — but long enough to notice. Long enough to be annoying. I finally decided to profile my zsh startup, and what I found took it from 1.4 seconds down to 53 milliseconds. H...

I maintain a symlink-based dotfiles repo for macOS/zsh. Over time, I'd accumulated three different approaches to managing runtime versions: nvm for Node.js, brew install go for Go, and brew install python@3.13 for Python. Each had its own quirks, its...