[slaction]

This is the perfect example of the whole hipster culture making it's way into web and software development.

I literally expect to see people like this writing about how they're experimenting with punch card input any day now.

[boomlinde]

What exactly is hipster culture in this context? The challenge seems like a good way for some people to learn something new. If you are familiar with the UNIX tools you can solve some problems faster than without them.

[jjaredsimpson]

precisely. any good ide has an embedded console/shell interface anyway. falling back to the command line is necessary/useful occasionally. but abstaining from visual interfaces for a month seems pointless.