This article is for you if you’re wondering how to replicate the Do you wish to continue? y/n: response, or something similar within your own shell. You’ve probably seen this Definitely execute command? [y/n] style of thing many times when installing packages or running software in your terminal, I wanted…

Sometimes it’s useful to have an environment variable listed within your prompt readout, you may be connecting to multiple DBs during a day, switching between K8S clusters, repositories, branches, the list goes on. You may be inclined to take an approach like this in your ~/.zshrc file: export var=$(zsh command) PS1="%n…

Some background — 3D-Printing is something that has already revolutionised the way the world views manufacturing in general and will continue to do so in the future. What started out in the 1980’s as a basic way to print a 3D object layer by layer, has evolved into a deeply complex and varied…

You can skip to here and get a custom shell prompt code snippet straight away. Generally speaking, programmers, developers, IT people, computer people, whatever it is you wish to call them, spend a lot of time within the terminal. The terminal is often seen as a mysterious, scary place for…