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Development Environment Development

An infinite field of recursive rabbit-holes

Zoltán Nagy

Your development environment is a tool to get things done. But it can be so much more. Topics covered: editors, operating systems, window managers, terminal emulators and shells, configuration management. Focuses on Linux, and macOS.

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Significant chunks of software engineering consist of making a computer understand an idea you've had. This isn't always writing code. Sometimes it's pressing alt-tab fifteen times to find the window you want. Other times it's browsing man find for the hundredth time. Yet other times the problem is not even the translation into computer-speak - it's formulating intentions clearly enough to qualify for translation at all. This book walks through the major components of a well-built development environment, aiming to also provide general techniques applicable to any technology.

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Zoltán Nagy

Zoltán - or Abesto, if you're online or don't like accents - is irrationally excited about cool and crazy technologies like Haskell, the Fish shell, and Spacemacs. His super-power is producing results with a keyboard that befuddle the other half of the pair-programming pair. "How did you make that function go down there and extract that variable and run the unit tests and commit with three keypresses?" - "C-c M-c M-butterfly" - "I saw you press f, not t!" - "Colemak".

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgement

  1. Preface

The Pitch

  1. What do you mean, “development environment”?

Who is This Book For?

  1. What Technologies are Covered?

How to Read This Book

About the Author

What to Expect from this Book

Conventions Used

  1. Information
  2. Exercises
  3. Warning
  4. Tips
  5. Appetizer

Identifying your Motivation

  1. Find the Time

Mindfulness Applies Everywhere

  1. Profile Your Workflow
  2. On Premature Customization

Supercharging your Shell

  1. What’s a Shell?
  2. What’s a Shell Alias?
  3. Persisting Aliases
  4. When Aliases are Not Enough
  5. Aliases: A Case-Study
  6. Navigating the File System in Constant Time
  7. Adoption
  8. DRY your shell usage!
  9. Also Try

Version Control

  1. What’s a “Dotfile”?
  2. Considerations for Your dotfiles Repository
  3. Sensitive Information
  4. Links

Automating Environment Setup

  1. Shell Scripts
  2. A Step Up from Shell Scripts: Babushka
  3. Warning: Babushka is unsupported
  4. More Power: Ansible
  5. Making a Choice
  6. CI for Your Development Environment
  7. Main Course

Editors and IDEs: Choosing and Customizing

  1. Vim – Ultimate Editing Speed
  2. ed Today
  3. Interactive Vim Tutorial
  4. Getting Help
  5. Emacs – Ultimate Customization
  6. Sublime Text – Immediately Cool
  7. Exploring New Software
  8. Atom – Like Sublime, Except
  9. JetBrains – The Big Guns (IntelliJ and friends)
  10. Making a Choice

Picking an Operating System

  1. macOS, the Safe Option
  2. Linux: Introduction and Context
  3. The Magical World of Linux Distributions
  4. Ubuntu: Beginner-Friendly and Stable
  5. Arch Linux: Minimal, Always Up to Date
  6. Linux: The Rest

Interlude: Finding Answers on the Internet

  1. Framing the Search Query
  2. Pinpointing the Actual Problem
  3. Beware the A-B Problem
  4. Asking Questions the Smart Way
  5. Evaluating and Using Answers

Terminal Emulators - What and Why

  1. macOS: Terminal and iTerm2
  2. Linux: Choices, Choices
  3. Notes on details of the script
  4. Interrogating Terminal Emulators for Features
  5. Conclusion

Command-Line Productivity

  1. Get the Most Out of Standard *nix Tools
  2. The Shiny, the Featureful, the Modern
  3. Advanced Shell Usage
  4. Dessert
  5. What’s a “symlink”?
  6. Anatomy of a Linux System
  7. What’s a TTY?
  8. Properly Trusting Messages with GPG
  9. That’s all he wrote

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