Why am I alive?

We long to be here for a purpose. Yet despite much self-deception, none is evident. The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life’s meaning. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

Carl Sagan

Shell String Split

Having some trouble with this operation, found that you can use string replacement syntax to also split a string to array:

NPM_VER=$(npm -v) # 6.12.1
NPM_VER=(${NPM_VER//./ }) # Split on '.' as delimiter

echo "${NPM_VER[0]}" # 6
echo "${NPM_VER[1]}" # 12
echo "${NPM_VER[2]}" # 1

Boilerplate with Maki Module

TL;DR: Make flexible and consistent folder-based modular templates to harden your project’s pattern with Maki Module :)

In programming there is boilerplate:

sections of code that have to be included in many places with little or no alteration.

Wikipedia

Since most things being made follow a pattern of things made before them, boilerplate gives a project consistency and sets the expectations of what you may find in other files, functions, classes, etc.

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