Thank you very much for this write-up and post. I am in a similar boat you are -- every month that passes as a developer makes me hungry to automate those repetitive tasks I do every time I develop something.
I also think this sentiment will be growing. I think there's a large disconnect between "traditional" UNIX users and people entering from the web / Rails / other kinds of worlds, and that gap is slowly shrinking. That's why we are seeing things like npm tools (bower, grunt) replacing makefiles, Docker replacing traditional sysops, the whole idea of "DevOps" as a thing vs "IT".
I'm very very excited about this transition and want to help be a part of it. I think I'm going to write a similar tutorial outlining my current mac / terminal workflow.
I also think this sentiment will be growing. I think there's a large disconnect between "traditional" UNIX users and people entering from the web / Rails / other kinds of worlds, and that gap is slowly shrinking. That's why we are seeing things like npm tools (bower, grunt) replacing makefiles, Docker replacing traditional sysops, the whole idea of "DevOps" as a thing vs "IT".
I'm very very excited about this transition and want to help be a part of it. I think I'm going to write a similar tutorial outlining my current mac / terminal workflow.