Take a walk through the history of the shell and see some tools designed to make customizing and managing the command line a little less intimidating.

A long-ish lightning talk or short-ish featured talk, given at Donut.js on 30 January 2018. The slides are slightly longer than what I was able to cover in the time alloted so some of this content may be broken out into a second talk in the future. In retrospect, piloting a new tool, a new talk, and live demos may have been a slightly tall order for the time alloted.

The slides are available here. The deck responds to all of the standard Remark keyboard shortcuts (← is back, → is forward, P will show presenter notes) but the interactive terminal has been removed.

You can see me ham-fist my way through this talk in all my pudding-golem glory here.

Many thanks to Donut.js, which is run by wonderfully welcoming folks who did not chide me even a little for going over time.

Thanks also to Daniel G. Taylor for his work on Tech Talk, which is the basis of my own fork. Tech Talk is a fun tool to present Markdown slides with, and an equally fun tool to hack on.

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