2 posts tagged with "Command-Line Interface"

There is a moment, if you work on software long enough, where something clicks into place and feels genuinely strange. Not bad strange. More like the first time you realized a mirror is showing you a reversed version of your face and you spent a few seconds unable to look away.

That moment, for a lot of developers, is the first time they watch their application do something to itself.

Not to a user's data. Not to an external service. To its own running body.

A program that outputs something is cool. But you know something even cooler? A program that outputs something different based on the context. This trait is called context-aware, and in this case, I like to call it a "context-aware output" for an output that has this trait.