Thread by @b0rk

I spent most of October tweeting bash comics, and I’m excited to announce that my “Bite Size Bash” zine is coming out on Wednesday!

here’s a thread with a little bit about why I wrote the zine…

I have a friend who’s a super accomplished senior engineer who mentioned once that they find working on bash scripts really scary and demoralizing.

so, why do really talented programmers struggle with bash?

some problems with bash:

1. It's a weird & counterintuitive language
2. you probably don't need to write it that often, so you don't practice
3. the times you DO need to use it, it's often because something important (like a build) broke and it needs to be fixed RIGHT NOW

but I spent a month thinking about what's actually required to write bash scripts, and it turns out that you only need to learn a few things to be confident with basic bash scripting

and most of the bash programs (like CI scripts) that you'll deal with in real life just are not that complex because (if we're honest) nobody really wants to be maintaining a complicated bash script anyway

here's the table of contents for "Bite Size Bash"! it's split into a "basics" section, which will help anyone who needs to deal with bash scripts, and a "getting fancy" section if you really want to become a bash wizard :)

you can sign up here to get an email when "bite size bash" comes out on wednesday, and get a discount that only people on my email list get ;) : wizardzines.com/zine-announcem…