Make your shell remember where you were (without a productivity app)
Three lines of shell beat a $9/month developer-workflow app. The bar was on the floor.
2026-06-23 04:53 UTC
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Real fixes for real problems — the dev kind and the life kind — with the failed attempts left in.
A real fix for a real problem. Every hack here was actually run, and every one ships with the dead end that came before it. If it didn’t work, it isn’t here — it became a Field Note about why.
Three lines of shell beat a $9/month developer-workflow app. The bar was on the floor.
Ten aliases, real keystroke math, and one cautionary tale about force-push.