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Seeking alternative compression. Hopefully wrong on average. Shameless. Started @getcognito and @bloom

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    1. John Backus‏ @backus 20 Apr 2017

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      Huh. The unix-y ideal is left-pad level simple. Makes me view npm’s ecosystem of tiny dependencies in a different light. https://twitter.com/acex222_2/status/657317170070855680 …

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    2. John Backus‏ @backus 20 Apr 2017
      Replying to @backus

      Tiny dependencies are pretty nice for unix commands. I want to pipe a lot of things to `nocolor` but AFAIK that doesn’t exist.

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    3. John Backus‏ @backus 20 Apr 2017
      Replying to @backus

      StackOverflow suggests using perl with some nasty regex. I can’t memorize it so I have to add an alias to my dotfiles.

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    4. John Backus‏ @backus 20 Apr 2017
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      I’m sure I could find a package to install but point is that’s not common. Instead we have to curate massive dotfiles over years and years.

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    5. John Backus‏ @backus 20 Apr 2017
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      “Add an alias to your dotfiles” is not a nice response for open source maintainers though, so everyone just adds a —no-color flag.

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    6. John Backus‏ @backus 20 Apr 2017
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      I was going to say that the only good solution seems to be making a “moreutils” (like coreutils). Apparently a thing https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ 

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    7. John Backus‏ @backus 20 Apr 2017
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      Popular commands from dotfile repos should move to something like this. Sharing a massive dotfile repo with the world is kinda absurd.

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      John Backus‏ @backus 20 Apr 2017

      (I use oh-my-zsh by the way. It is definitely the best option at the moment if there are a lot of common utilities you want)

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