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by tptacek 532 days ago
I like the idea, but my immediate comment here, in a spirit of thinking about what would get a tool like this wider adoption, is that "boulette" is a clunky thing to type on a terminal. You can be more assertive about the importance of your tool, and give it a shorter, punchier (command-line) name; it might see more use if you do.
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You're not really supposed to type it everytime. Just declare an alias prefixed with boulette replacing the actual risky commands.

If you're in a mental state where you can shutdown a prod server while thinking you're on a dev one, you certainly won't think to type "wtf command", no matter "wtf" actually is.

For what it’s worth, the name is funny and easy to remember to French-speaking people.