add why section to readme

evnp · Oct 22, 2023 · 1ae720b · 1ae720b
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@@ -141,7 +141,15 @@ While sorting out configuration, it may be useful to have nx output the complete
 export NX_VERBOSE=1; source "$HOME/nx/nx.sh"
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-That's it!
+Why?
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+One of the things that makes me happiest is building small tools that I use every day. This seems to be the case even when I'm the _only_ one that uses them! Every time those characters jolt forth, invoking something from the void that hadn't existed before, I feel a twinge of satisfaction.
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+For myself, the most effective way I've found to accomplish this comes in the form of small bash scripts, composed in traditional unix fashion. Every time I work on one of these scripts, I can feel more of the bash surface area sticking in my mind, and my proficiency in scripting this way improves. This has had a noticable side effect of improving my abilities in everyday shell-scripting tasks.
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+Keeping things small can sometimes be a satisfying challenge. With `nx`, the result of following this motivation has been a program that fits onto a single 13" MacBook Pro screen, at 13pt font size, without compromising on the desired featureset:
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+![full nx source code](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/evnp/nx/main/source.png)
 
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