0:03

I recently gave a school

0:05

career talk in my capacity

0:07

as a STEM ambassador. Remind

0:10

us what a STEM ambassador

0:12

is. STEM ambassadors are

0:14

professionals in science, technology,

0:16

engineering and maths professions

0:18

who use some of

0:20

their time to inspire

0:22

the next generation of

0:25

kids and students to

0:27

go into STEM careers.

0:29

What sort of age group is

0:31

this aimed at? to sort of

0:33

university age in this particular case

0:35

I was talking to a group

0:37

of year tens who were 14 and

0:39

15 I think that's right yes who

0:42

were studying computer science GCSE

0:44

so they'd already chosen so the

0:46

chances are that they might do

0:48

a career that somewhat adjunct computing

0:51

in some way yes possibly

0:53

I mean you know it's GCSE so you

0:55

know this might be one of 10

0:57

subjects they're studying at the moment but

1:00

the idea of this is to give

1:02

them a nudge into carrying that on

1:04

at least the next stage of further

1:07

education or looking at apprenticeships and so

1:09

on and giving them a chance to

1:11

find out what's involved in actually doing

1:14

a job in software development

1:16

and giving them a chance to ask

1:18

questions about how I got there. So

1:20

what was the setting and how many

1:22

students were you talking to? This

1:24

was in their school in their computing

1:26

classroom, which was... mightily impressive

1:28

compared to the kind of places I

1:31

learned about computers when I was their

1:33

age because we just had ICT lessons.

1:35

We didn't have actual computing lessons. So

1:37

they had all actual computing stuff on

1:40

the walls rather than just here's how

1:42

a spreadsheet works, which I thought was

1:44

quite nice to see. But yeah, I

1:46

literally just went into their classroom in

1:49

one of their lessons and stood at

1:51

the front and gave a short presentation

1:53

about me and how I... got to where I

1:55

am and then did a sort of Q&A session

1:57

with them for the rest of the lesson lasted

1:59

about. 45 minutes. How engaged were they as

2:02

a group or were there like a

2:04

small number of people asking questions and

2:06

the rest of them staring out the

2:08

window? I mean I think mostly they

2:10

were at least politely paying attention. Facing

2:12

front at least. Yeah there were probably

2:15

about half a dozen who asked the

2:17

majority of the questions but probably about

2:19

a dozen overall out of a group

2:21

of about 20 to 30 who asked

2:23

questions. So there was a fair amount

2:25

of engagement. It certainly wasn't just me

2:28

talking at them. the whole time which

2:30

was quite good because I've never done

2:32

one of these before and especially I've

2:34

never done stuff with this age group

2:36

before so it was difficult to know

2:39

exactly how to pitch things. What sort

2:41

of questions did you get? The ones

2:43

that I wasn't expecting were things like

2:45

what spec is your computer? Like they're

2:47

very interested in that and like oh

2:49

does the company buy it for you

2:52

or do you have to buy it

2:54

yourself? One of them asked if that's

2:56

a tax deductible expense, which is a

2:58

bit of a left field question. So

3:00

I gave a brief primer on the

3:02

difference between being self-employed and working for

3:05

a company. But I think one of

3:07

the most interesting questions I got, which

3:09

I've reflected on a bit, was they

3:11

asked about, because my company, I'd explained

3:13

that my company is mostly remote, and

3:16

my team is all in different places

3:18

around the UK, they asked if I

3:20

preferred working in an office or working

3:22

remotely, to which I answered, I prefer

3:24

working remotely. But reflecting on it and

3:26

thinking about sort of... career journey, I

3:29

think I'd discuss a bit more about

3:31

how it's probably better when you're starting

3:33

out when you're a junior developer. There's

3:35

a lot of advantage to being there

3:37

in person and paradoxically being there with

3:40

the more experienced people. Yeah, that's going

3:42

to be tricky if all of you

3:44

want to stay home. Exactly, yeah, I

3:46

prefer being at home, but yeah. But

3:48

yeah, so I thought that was an

3:50

interesting question. Other than that it was,

3:53

yeah, various things about what subjects I

3:55

took and... What sort of projects I

3:57

like to work on and things like

3:59

that? And being asked about

4:01

the projects that you're working on, was there

4:03

an appreciation of open source and working

4:05

on open source? There wasn't as such, but

4:08

one of the questions I got asked,

4:10

so the teacher fielded questions ahead of time

4:12

and sent them to me. So one

4:14

of the ones that I got asked ahead

4:16

of time was whether I collaborated with

4:18

other people and other companies on work, which

4:20

gave me the opportunity to say, well,

4:22

yes, because I work on an open source

4:24

project. So a lot of the work

4:26

I do is collaborative and sort of gave

4:29

them a bit of a primer on

4:31

what open source was and why I thought that

4:33

was a good way of doing things. a

4:35

whole separate talk on its own, isn't it?

4:37

Exactly. That's a whole separate thing. This was

4:39

like literally a two minute, this is what

4:41

open source means. And here's how I've done

4:43

it kind of thing. But yeah,

4:45

I did actually have the opportunity to do

4:48

that, which was quite good. Did you mention

4:50

the fact that you do a podcast in

4:52

your spare time? Yeah, we got 20 to

4:54

30 new subscribers. No, I didn't quite squeeze

4:56

that bit in in the time, unfortunately. Maybe

4:58

I'll try and do it as a sort

5:00

of, yeah, also about me kind of thing.

5:03

Would you do it again? Yeah, definitely. I

5:05

mean, it's tricky finding the sort of right

5:07

combination of people looking for stuff and

5:09

stuff that I'm able to do. So there's

5:11

a website when you're signed up as

5:13

STEM ambassador where teachers basically say, I've got

5:16

this activity going on, looking for people

5:18

to come in. But it's finding those things

5:20

which are within range of me and

5:22

also match up with what I can do.

5:24

But I, having done this once now

5:26

and got sort of a bit of a

5:28

feel for what it's like, I would

5:30

definitely be up for doing it again. Yeah.

5:34

And if people are interested in becoming a

5:36

STEM ambassador and doing this sort of

5:38

thing as well, if you go to stem

5:40

.org .uk, you can find out all about

5:42

it there. Okay. I was going to say,

5:44

how'd you become an ambassador? Is there

5:46

a ceremony or something? It's not quite that.

5:48

Basically, you get a criminal records check

5:50

and you get to say, you're okay to

5:52

go and talk to kids. Do you

5:54

do a DBS check as well? Yes, exactly.

5:56

That's what it's called now. Yeah. Yes.

5:58

Okay. And so once you're registered as an ambassador

6:00

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6:02

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6:04

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6:06

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6:08

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6:10

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6:12

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6:14

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6:17

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6:19

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6:21

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6:23

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6:25

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6:27

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6:29

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7:24

I am helping organize a bar camp

7:26

in Surrey. What is a bar

7:29

camp? I'm so glad you asked.

7:31

I actually only found out the

7:33

origin of the name quite recently

7:35

and the reason I looked at

7:37

what the name was was because

7:39

when you start going around asking

7:42

people for use of a venue

7:44

for a bar camp, especially educational

7:46

establishments like schools and colleges, they

7:48

want to know what you mean

7:50

by bar. camp and like what

7:52

are we having camping here and

7:54

is there going to be a

7:56

bar and it's like no neither

7:58

of those things Which is really

8:01

confusing. So, as I understand it, the

8:03

term Bar Camp originates from, there was

8:05

a type of conference that they wanted

8:07

to organize and there was already one

8:09

called Foo Camp. So they created the,

8:11

their alternate one was called Bar Camp,

8:13

as in Foo Bar, Bas. That's why

8:15

it's called Bar Camp. I think Foo

8:17

Camp was an invite only event and

8:19

they wanted to make a public

8:21

one, wasn't it? Something like that.

8:23

Yeah, it was something like that.

8:26

Anyway. It doesn't really matter. It's

8:28

an unconference. That means the schedule

8:30

is not set ahead of time. So

8:32

you don't have a schedule with

8:34

a list of speakers on a

8:36

website. You just register your interest

8:38

in attendance, get a ticket, turn

8:40

up if that's appropriate. And you

8:43

decide what you want to talk

8:45

about if you want to talk

8:47

about something. And it doesn't have

8:49

to be about technology. I recently

8:51

went to one in London, London

8:53

Bar Camp. And... I sat in

8:55

on a talk about Mozilla Firefox,

8:58

I also sat in on a

9:00

talk about AI music creation

9:02

and from the non-technical side

9:04

I was in a talk

9:06

on making scenes and the

9:08

focus was with as few

9:10

tools as possible. So getting

9:12

a piece of paper and

9:14

folding it in a particular way

9:17

that you can write on it, fold

9:19

it up and then use that as

9:21

a... that means to start a revolution

9:23

or something and my point being there

9:26

were creative tasks and creative sessions and

9:28

discussion sessions and it wasn't just people

9:30

talking at you with slides but there

9:32

was some of that as well right

9:35

so that's really what an unconference is

9:37

it is a conference that doesn't have

9:39

a fixed schedule ahead of time the

9:42

people who turn up other people who

9:44

make the event happen with whatever they

9:46

want to talk about and so I

9:48

came away from the one in London

9:51

quite excited and fired up and I

9:53

really enjoyed it. So well done to

9:55

the organisers. And I was chatting to

9:57

my friend Laura Tchaikovsky who is a

10:00

Devrail for a company called Dragonfly DB

10:02

and I chat to her quite a

10:04

lot. She lives in Godleming which is

10:06

not too far away in Surrey and

10:09

she said oh I'd really like to

10:11

do a bar camp in Surrey and

10:13

I said yes that would be a

10:15

great idea and then she just went

10:18

off and created a planning document and

10:20

we have a regular catch-up and she

10:22

found a venue and so we're going

10:24

to do it and I'll put a

10:27

link in the show notes to all

10:29

the details but... I can tell you

10:31

a little bit more about the process

10:34

but it's very early on we like

10:36

registered a domain and fixed a date

10:38

and we've set up a site where

10:40

we can you can register and get

10:43

your ticket and that's it so far

10:45

we haven't got sponsors and there's loads

10:47

of other things we haven't done yet

10:49

but it's far away enough in the

10:52

year that we can get all that

10:54

done in time. So when is it

10:56

happening? So we're doing it on the

10:58

first weekend in August, the second of

11:01

August. It's on the Saturday, it's only

11:03

a one-day conference, and it runs from

11:05

9am to 530. And it's going to

11:07

be at Godleming College. And this is

11:10

very easy for everyone to get to

11:12

who, well, everyone who lives near Godleming,

11:14

it's very easy to get to. It's

11:16

easy to get to by car. There's

11:19

a huge car park. and if you're

11:21

coming by train, the train station isn't

11:23

too far to walk. So it's not

11:26

too bad to get to. We've got

11:28

a couple of buildings, they've opened up

11:30

the ground floor, and we've got some

11:32

classrooms, so they're decent-sized rooms, they've got

11:35

projectors, you know, there's tables and chairs,

11:37

and we've also got the sports hall

11:39

as well. So we've got quite a

11:41

bit of space for as many sessions

11:44

as we want to run, spread over

11:46

two different buildings that are right next

11:48

to each other. and all the classrooms

11:50

are on the ground floor and so

11:53

it's all super accessible so you know

11:55

people in wheelchairs or with restrictive movement.

11:57

should be okay to get in because

11:59

we've selected only ground floor rooms and

12:02

you know there's bathrooms and accessible bathrooms

12:04

and all that kind of stuff so

12:06

we were pretty keen on this venue

12:08

and they were very kind to let

12:11

us go over and have a look

12:13

around and Yeah they're really lovely and

12:15

we're quite happy once we explain there's

12:18

nothing to do with camping and nothing

12:20

to do with bars. And you just

12:22

explained that you're in a couple of

12:24

buildings and the rooms and what have

12:27

you if you got some appreciation for

12:29

like how many people you can

12:31

accommodate. That's interesting. The sports hall is

12:33

enormous so quite a lot of people will

12:35

fit in a sports hall for like the

12:38

communal space like if we wanted to have

12:40

a couple of exhibitors we could probably put

12:42

them in there and there some corridor space

12:44

outside. Each room maxes out probably 20 to

12:47

30 people, something like that, probably 20, 30

12:49

would be a bit of a push. And

12:51

we've got two rooms in one of the

12:54

buildings, and then we've got two in the

12:56

building next door, and it's only a short

12:58

walk from one building to the other. You

13:00

can do it in a few seconds. It's

13:03

not like they're on opposite sides of the

13:05

site or anything, they're right next to each

13:07

other. But we have the option of more

13:10

rooms if we think. we're going to have

13:12

more people. And we've got a target of

13:14

how many people we think might come to

13:16

an event like that. We're not looking for

13:19

hundreds and hundreds of people. We're looking for,

13:21

you know, a couple of hundred would be

13:23

a lot, I think. So probably less than

13:25

that. But yeah, somewhere between 100 and 200

13:28

would probably be a good amount of people.

13:30

And if there were lots of people who

13:32

wanted to give talks and four rooms wasn't

13:34

enough, we can ask them to unlock additional

13:37

rooms that are just opposite the rooms we've

13:39

already got. So it's not like we have

13:41

to open another building or anything like that.

13:43

It should be pretty straightforward. Are you

13:46

organizing this like cold just going into

13:48

it further enthusiasm or have you got

13:50

some sort of mentor who's been giving

13:52

you some advice and guidance? I'll be

13:55

honest, Laura is doing most of the

13:57

work here. She has tons of experience

13:59

doing this. of stuff. She's very good

14:01

at this kind of stuff. She's been

14:03

doing it for years. She's really good

14:05

at doing event organizing and she knows

14:07

exactly what's needed. But we had a

14:10

call with Terrence Eden who organized the

14:12

London bar camp and we asked him

14:14

to brain dump in our direction. So

14:16

we took loads of notes and we've

14:18

been to enough things like odd camp

14:20

and I had fresh memories from the

14:22

London ones so I knew some of

14:25

the things that they did that worked.

14:27

and so we're going to borrow some

14:29

of those things. But bar camp, it's

14:31

only one day, it's not like we've

14:33

got to worry about accommodation for people,

14:35

we're going to try and get sponsors,

14:38

try and figure out what we do

14:40

about refreshments if we can. maybe have

14:42

a bar van out so no definitely

14:44

no bar no camping maybe have an

14:46

area if the weather's nice then maybe

14:48

people can sit out on the grass

14:50

because there is a big field next

14:53

to the sports hall and maybe people

14:55

can you know bring a blanket and

14:57

sit out on the grass at lunchtime

14:59

or something like that we're trying to

15:01

figure all those details out but it's

15:03

basically the key message about any bar

15:06

camp really they're all somewhat similar a

15:08

similar theme and the idea is really

15:10

to get people who are passionate about

15:12

something to talk about and share their

15:14

knowledge about that topic. Some of it

15:16

could be technology, it doesn't have to

15:18

be though, and we can learn from

15:21

each other in a friendly accessible setting

15:23

with other like-minded friendly people. That's really

15:25

the goal is to have an accessible

15:27

friendly, respectful environment in which people can

15:29

share whatever it is they're passionate about.

15:31

And should people still come if they're

15:34

not up for... talking about something themselves?

15:36

Oh sure, yeah. Like, you know, if

15:38

you think about how many hours there

15:40

are in a day, like we're going

15:42

to run from 9 till 530 and

15:44

there's going to be a slot for

15:46

lunch and a couple of slots for

15:49

breaks. So there's a limited number of

15:51

slots we're going to have in each

15:53

day in the day and there's a

15:55

limited number of rooms and so even

15:57

if we had 200 people they couldn't...

15:59

all do a talk. So naturally there

16:02

are going to be some people who

16:04

are going to gravitate towards wanting to

16:06

give a talk and also plenty of

16:08

people who won't. And that's fine. That's

16:10

all part of it. We would encourage

16:12

people who are interested and have something

16:14

that they think is interesting and other

16:17

people might want to know to give

16:19

a talk. Like I did not think

16:21

that London Markamp that I would sit

16:23

in a talk and learn about how

16:25

revolutions are started with homemade magazines. But

16:27

I did. I didn't think I'd learn

16:30

about all new features that happening

16:32

in Mozilla Firefox that actually got

16:34

me actually excited about Mozilla Firefox

16:36

future releases, which I did not

16:38

think was going to happen either.

16:40

And there were other things like

16:43

games to play and other fun

16:45

things. So there was, I like the

16:47

diversity of topics that you get at

16:49

bar camps, and that's why we wanted

16:51

to organize one that was outside London

16:53

near us that we can find a

16:56

decent. venue that is accessible, that was

16:58

important. And like I said, it's got

17:00

a big car park. It's even got

17:02

some EV charging points for those of

17:04

us who care about that kind of

17:07

thing. And if people want to come

17:09

on a bike, they can probably cycle,

17:11

get a train. Godleming's not, you know,

17:13

the middle of nowhere. It's a fairly

17:15

accessible place to get to. So

17:17

you'll probably hear more about this at

17:20

some point, but the key thing to

17:22

putting in your diary is the second

17:24

of August and, uh... We'll put a note

17:26

in the show notes that links to

17:28

how you can get a ticket. So

17:31

you can already get a ticket if

17:33

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17:35

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19:13

Having successfully got Alan and Mark

19:16

using Power Line Go, it's time

19:18

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19:20

I tell you I've moved to

19:22

Starship! Oh God! I can't keep

19:25

up! Man! What Starship then? Starship

19:27

is, and I quote, the minimal

19:29

blazing fast and infinitely customizable prompt

19:31

for any shell. So we talked

19:34

about power line a couple of

19:36

times. I think because Mark, you

19:38

did some customisations to that to

19:41

tell you what version of Moodle

19:43

was in the project that you

19:45

were currently looking at. Yep. I

19:47

think that came about because I

19:50

was talking about glyphs and nerd

19:52

fonts and you said, oh, it's

19:54

interesting that you've seen these fancy

19:56

prompts, but you didn't know how

19:59

people made them work. Yeah. in

20:01

power line some years ago because

20:03

predominantly it looked nice. And the

20:05

problem with power line go for

20:08

me in recent times is that

20:10

it doesn't look as nice as

20:12

I wanted to and I couldn't

20:14

find any way to theme it.

20:17

And having spent a great deal

20:19

of time adding cap poochin gorgeousness

20:21

to everything in my system I

20:23

had this rather ugly power line

20:25

prompt. I think you're pushing it.

20:28

It's not ugly. It might not

20:30

fit your theme, but I think

20:32

functional. It is a command line

20:34

prompt that only his mother can

20:36

love, I'm sure. Well, once the thought had

20:38

entered my head, I'm going to change from

20:41

power line. I noticed a couple of things

20:43

about power line that I really hadn't spotted

20:45

before, and it's quite big. Like it's got

20:47

lots of words and things. I know you

20:49

can tune it and tweak it. change the

20:52

maximum length of things, but it does seem

20:54

to take up quite a lot of space.

20:56

You mean all that information it's giving you?

20:58

Yeah, exactly. When you just change it to

21:01

C. coli on backslash or something like that?

21:03

Well, yeah, I mean you can, but I

21:05

want, I do like lots of information in

21:07

the prompt. It's a productivity tool. You know,

21:10

you can glance down, you can see the

21:12

status of your Git tree that you're in

21:14

and it's very helpful. And I was aware

21:16

that Starship is apparently the new hotness

21:18

for shell prompts. And I've looked at

21:20

it in the past, but bounced off

21:22

it because all of the demos that

21:24

you tend to see for Starship favour

21:26

sort of the prompt being on one

21:28

line, or rather the status information being

21:31

on one line, and then a carriage

21:33

return to get to the actual prompt

21:35

where you type. And I really don't

21:37

like that. I don't know if it's

21:39

because I'm old and commudgingly, but I

21:41

like my prompt and my text entry

21:43

to... move together as one, not be

21:45

a multi-line thing. If you're a

21:47

member of Single Line Commudgeon Club,

21:49

then I'm joining you because I

21:51

cannot stand two line prompts. I

21:54

think they're insane. Yeah. And anyone

21:56

else who's listening, who wants to

21:58

join us in single... come to

22:00

our telegram channel and we'll give

22:02

you the private handshake and everything.

22:04

So a lot of people use

22:06

Starship because it has a lot

22:08

of information that it can display

22:11

and that's why you see these

22:13

sort of dual line prompts because

22:15

they pack in a load of

22:17

information. Anyway I sat down with

22:19

a pen and a pencil. and

22:21

I looked at all of the

22:23

configuration capabilities that were in Starship

22:25

and my goal was to display

22:27

more information than I was currently

22:29

seeing in Power Line but in

22:31

less space that Power Line took

22:33

up and most importantly to make

22:35

it fit with my Capuchin theme.

22:38

Vitely important, yes. That's the key

22:40

motivation. Let's very absolutely clear. So

22:42

having decided that's what I was

22:44

going to do, the first thing

22:46

I did is I invited my

22:48

daughter in who's very disciplined on

22:50

the order of colours to be

22:52

rainbow ordered and I showed her

22:54

the capooching colour scheme and I

22:56

said, which of these should I

22:58

use and in what order should

23:00

they appear along the prompt? So

23:02

she's helped make a beautiful rainbow

23:05

prompt for me. And once I

23:07

got that down, I started putting

23:09

together my status information and this

23:11

is a visual thing. So I'll

23:13

have in the show notes a

23:15

link that you can go to

23:17

with a little animation of how

23:19

it all works. So you can

23:21

see visually. But there were some

23:23

things that I thought I don't

23:25

need to see some of these

23:27

things. So I've gone for sort

23:29

of a visual representation of most

23:32

things. So instead of my username,

23:34

I have a little green ninja,

23:36

which is me. And when I'm

23:38

root, instead of the word root,

23:40

it's a little red demon. So

23:42

I use nerd font glyphs to

23:44

denote who the user is. And

23:46

if unexpectedly, I'm not logged in

23:48

as either as those accounts, then

23:50

it does show the full text

23:52

username. So Green Ninja is me

23:54

and red demon is root. And

23:56

then similarly for the path prompt,

23:59

instead of doing... the full path,

24:01

power line enables you to do substitutions.

24:03

So all of the common directories

24:05

that you have, like home, instead

24:08

of the word home or till,

24:10

is actually a little house. And

24:12

if you have like slash documents,

24:14

for example, I have a document

24:17

glyph, so it's home icon slash

24:19

a document icon, so you can

24:21

contract a lot of the common

24:23

directories down to three little pictures

24:26

rather than... a whole bunch of

24:28

words. And so I've gone through

24:30

and deeply customise the visual presentation

24:32

of all of this and I'm

24:35

particularly happy with like how get

24:37

trees are presented because I've used

24:39

all of the glyphs that are

24:41

available in nerd fonts to show

24:44

how far forward behind you are

24:46

with your different branches and what

24:48

have you. And it all does this

24:50

in just a few glyph characters.

24:52

And if at any point you're

24:54

confused as to what these little

24:56

glyphs mean, you can just type

24:59

Starship Explain and it will break

25:01

down the phone, it will display

25:03

the prompt character by character vertically

25:05

and it will then annotate what

25:07

each of the elements of the

25:09

prompt are so you can remind

25:11

yourself. Yes, so you don't have

25:13

to have all of this translation

25:15

stored in your brain. Right. It's

25:17

easy for me because I designed it.

25:19

So you were kind enough to show

25:21

this to me in the office and

25:24

you shared the configuration with me which

25:26

I put on my computer. In fact,

25:28

I put on every single computer I

25:30

have now followed the Ninja Master and

25:32

removed PowerLine Go from everything, literally everything.

25:34

And now I've got Starship on

25:36

there and I've used your config and I've

25:38

just realized that when I open a terminal

25:40

I do see my name because my name

25:43

is not Martin. I didn't look at the

25:45

config. Is there a substitution in there that

25:47

basically says if name is Martin then show

25:49

a Ninja? Oh yeah. So what you need

25:51

to do is just grab that file for

25:53

my name and change it to Alan and

25:55

you too can be a Ninja. I will

25:58

do that across all my machines yes. So

26:00

the thing that I'm interested in is the

26:02

same thing I was interested in with Power

26:04

Line Go, which is, is it extensible? Can

26:06

you easily write your own little widgets and

26:08

do you have to contribute them to the

26:10

code base or build them into the code

26:12

base from to work or can you plug

26:14

them in separately? Yes and yes. So there

26:16

is one of the modules in Starship, I

26:18

think is called Project. and that already knows

26:20

the context of the directory you're in. So

26:23

it uses some heuristics and if it's like

26:25

a node project it knows how to look

26:27

at packages. Jason and things like that and

26:29

it will put the version of the project

26:31

in the prompt for you for example. So

26:33

a whole bunch of people have obviously contributed

26:35

things like that for popular project frameworks. Now,

26:37

if you're using Moodle, and I did check,

26:39

because I anticipated this question, which is not

26:41

one of those supported frameworks, they've got another

26:43

module which is called custom. And you can

26:45

add the custom module and then you can

26:47

create your own little bit of scripting or

26:50

something to go and look at whatever it

26:52

is you want to do and then display

26:54

that. in your prompt. So I think for

26:56

your use case you'll be able to create

26:58

a Moodle one as a custom thing just

27:00

for you or if you were so inclined

27:02

you could add Moodle to the projects thing

27:04

upstream and then everyone would benefit. Nice. At

27:06

work I was sharing my screen and someone

27:08

saw my terminal after you... shared your Starship

27:10

config with me and they were like, oh,

27:12

you're using Starship? And I said yes. And

27:14

they went, oh, can you share your config?

27:17

And I was like, well, okay, you'll get

27:19

it from here. And I pointed to your

27:21

config and they got it. And then. Someone

27:23

else at work asked me about my my

27:25

shell prompt and I shared it with them

27:27

and they said something like I cannot be

27:29

bothered to figure out how to do this

27:31

just tell me exactly what commands are type

27:33

and I was like okay no worries I

27:35

got you man and so your Starship config

27:37

is now on multiple computers in Angkor.

27:39

Well, that's nice to done. Well,

27:41

that's nice to hear.

27:44

And I've had friends

27:46

that have seen my

27:48

screen go, So I

27:50

like that. So it

27:52

has spread far and

27:54

wide. And I've put

27:56

it in a gist, which

27:58

will be in the

28:00

show notes. So if

28:02

you want to go

28:04

and grab it, you

28:06

can do that you can

28:08

do that too. into it

28:11

is the the for the

28:13

cat poochin. theme. So So

28:15

if you like the

28:17

design, but you don't

28:19

like the colors, you

28:21

can take it and

28:23

you can just go

28:25

in there and change

28:27

the go in there and scheme the

28:29

make it for make

28:31

know, your own you that

28:33

you theme to use. to

28:35

use. But Starship is is great.

28:38

It's infinitely customizable. and you

28:40

can can line curmudny club just

28:42

as you want as you want to. So I've

28:45

been very happy with it. with it and yeah, come

28:47

come and give it a try. Let

28:49

me know me you think. you think.