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title: "💭 Command Line Interface Guidelines"
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date: 2024-07-11
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This is a pretty sick set of guidelines to help you write better cli programs, I'm definitely coming back to reading this one more in depth later.

!!! note

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    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>