[philjw]

Born in 1995, I used to joke that kids from 1998 wouldn’t know what a VHS tape is. But turns out “digital native” doesn’t mean digitally literate. That hit me again recently, observing someone rewatch an Instagram reel several times in the supermarket just to grab the ingredients on the fly — no notes, no structure.

I realized I do the same: contextually Googling terminal commands I’ve used 10 times before, then forgetting them. So I started writing them down — first for family recipes, then for shell commands.

This is my “terminal spellbook” — a collection of the commands I actually use and automate. I'd love to see yours too, especially the ones where terminal still beats a polished UI.