I Just Conquered the Command Line (and lived to tell the tale)
Big milestone today: officially finished Codecademy’s “Learn the Command Line” course.
Started procrastinating hard, ended up having a 4-hour conversation with Grok about Packers prophecies and Bob Seger’s “Night Moves” playing on repeat. Somehow that turned into the most productive coding session of my life.
Key takeaways:
mv,cp,rm -rf— I now wield the power of life and death over files- Pipes and redirects are basically wizardry
- Never trust myself after midnight with sudo privileges
Make no mistake, this course is DRY. I argued and argued with both Grok and Copilot as to whether I actually needed to do this first. I wanted to get back into full stack, which is more fun. But they both stressed the importance of learning the command line and told me that it would pay dividends later on. And it actually did. Immediately.
Today I launched this website and tried to link VS Code to my hosting via SSH, and this required using PowerShell. I had to have Copilot give me the exact commands to use, but I understood quite a bit of it.
The Command Line Codecademy course is okay, but I do think I’m going to have to go deeper in the future to really master the command line. I can navigate files systems well, though, and that’s all I need for now.
Proof of Victory
Certified Terminal Menace
Next up: Git & GitHub. The prophecy continues.