refp.se personal blog

A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy

by Filip Roséen refp.se published 2026-08-05

Event designators have been hiding in not-so-plain-sight since the late 1970s — so powerful that forgetting might be part of a massive conspiracy to wear out developer keyboards faster than otherwise.

Points

170

HN comments

79

Submissions

1

Cited by

0 commenters

Software Engineering2026

Related posts from the same era

Ghostty is leaving GitHub

Mitchell Hashimoto20263,521 points1,051 commentscited by 3 details

Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen

RRikiya Takehi20262,959 points899 comments details

Git commands I run before reading any code

Principal Software Engineer & Codebase Rescue20262,338 points509 comments details

Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

Dr. Emily L. Hunt20252,214 points1,324 comments details

Anthropic acquires Bun

Bun Blog20252,192 points1,072 commentscited by 7 details

Zed 1.0

Zed Blog20262,153 points690 comments details