Comment by bigfishrunning
7 hours ago
> All the smells you pointed out, just look like a Python dev approaching bash without fully understanding it.
also, referring to Linux as "the language of the internet" when bash isn't particularly suited for internet tasks also smell like "excited windows Python dev"...
FWIW, his screens looked a lot like OSX to me (which tracks with graphic design users in my experience).
Anyway, he seems like a very nice fellow and I wish him and almost all T-shirt designers well. That bash script just gave me a lot of pause. (And even that seems possibly downstream of him being nice and doing it himself to spare his team from what he called a "FrankenProject".)
"Linux, the open-source language of the internet" comes from the linked akamai.com press release, not the blog post author. Their putting that as a section title to the quote may be their poking light fun at it.