The Three Treasures of the Programmer Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli's joke version of the Chinese Four Treasures of the Study!
  • web browser
  • Text editor
  • terminal. Though to be honest, circa 2022, Ciro learned of the ctrl + click to open file (including with file.c:123 line syntax) ability of Visual Studio Code (likely present in other IDEs), and he was starting considering dumping the terminal altogether if some implementation gets it really really right. The main thing is that it can't be a tinny little bar at the bottom, it has to be full window and super easily toggleable!
In the past, Ciro used to use file managers, which would be the fourth tresure. But he stopped doing so for years due to his cd alias... so it became three. He actually had exactly three windows open when he was checking if there was anything else he could not open hand of.
Figure 1.
The three Treasures of the Programmer
. Featuring: Gvim, tmux running in GNOME terminal, and Chromium browser on Ubuntu 22.04. The minimized windows are for demonstration purposes, Cirism mandates that all windows shall be maximized at all times. Splits withing a single program are permitted however.
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Appears to be a small section from the Diamond Sutra. TODO find or create a video of it, it is just too awesome.
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The explosive moments presumably represent the intense rowing action of a dragon boat race competition.
TODO date composed.
Video 1.
Dragon boat performed by Yuanchun Yu (2021)
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Figure 1.
Liu Dehai peforming at the Musée Guimet in 2010
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Video 1.
The World Of Enrico Fermi by Harvard Project Physics (1970)
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