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How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog (anniemueller.com)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I like how some sentences contain phrases that actually make sense:

Despite the jaggle of the chromus, it’s really multi-purpose.

Also me, writing a lot in bash, can totally relate to this:
[[]][[]][[]][[]]][[]()()()()()()()()(){{}{}{}|{}{|}{}{|}{ ////////////////!! !!!! !! //// !!!
Except there should be backslashes, single and double quotes in it too.
Here's a real world example of getting the value of an array member, with a counter:
x="${array[$((i+=2))]}"

kleptomitrons

I want some of those please.

[–] 404@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Haha yeah, made me think of escape sequences

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Those would not typically be part of a software tutorial, also they are not part of the shell's language.

[–] 404@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

True. However they are part of the symbol gibberish category.