Shell Aliases That Save Us an Hour a Week

None of these aliases is clever. Together they remove a surprising amount of typing from an ordinary week.

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alias gs='git status -sb'
alias gl='git log --oneline --graph -20'
alias sync-site='rsync -avz --delete public/ studio:/var/www/site/'
alias webp='for f in *.jpg; do cwebp -q 80 "$f" -o "${f%.jpg}.webp"; done'

Every studio accumulates habits it never chose. Once a year we list them and ask whether each one still earns its place.