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Chris Dickinson

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Hi, I'm Chris Dickinson . I'm a software engineer based in Portland, Oregon. I write about programming, systems, and the web.

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The Case for Bash (2021)

Bash is oft-maligned: you hear it sneered at in sentences like “our continuous integration pipeline is just a pile of bash scripts .” It is commonly regarded as unintelligible and thus unmaintainable. The pile of bash scripts are the toxic byproduct of an infrastructure team understaffed, pressed for time, unwilling…