Love your work. Always fascinates me to see how people approach simplifying something complicated. These remind me of a feeling I also get when I'm reading Scott McCloud: comics are vastly underrated for educational content.

When I was considering using fgrep, I looked it up; lo and behold, it's not part of the POSIX standard. So I used the option instead, and have since.

I'm a little puzzled why people have problems with these little things when it feels like it's pretty common for tools to change given enough time (for example, ifconfig and netstat to ip and ss). It's just essentially an API that gradually refines over time.

I used to think something like, "If I can just get them to see that I didn't mean to hurt/mean it that way, they clearly won't be hurt!" This is not at all true for many (most?), and like many matters of emotion that's ok. I was not originally aware of the phrase "intent is not impact" but this idea is what I'm trying to describe above.

It is very important to approach this from a place of humility and non-defensiveness. Be eager to apologize for the hurt you caused. I'm sure you're a great person who doesn't wish to hurt people; apologizing doesn't mean that you're sorry you tried to hurt them but that you're sorry that you did. Think of it as the equivalent of apologizing for accidentally elbowing someone in the head. It's not like you meant to, but their head still hurts where you elbowed it.

Actually caring helps a lot; it helps remind you to think before you speak or write, and to pay attention to reactions. If you care, you tend to get better over time.

We've gone through so many here (Apple, Belkin, no-name...) and they just seem to break fairly easily. Wish there were a case solution but those seem to have fizzled out over time (presumably no demand).

Anyone know of a good adapter that survives daily use?