Theme 1 – Learning by reading manuals and hands‑on examples
- “It’s amazing what you can learn by reading the manual.” – teddyh
- “It is, because manuals are often not the best way to learn things… I learned most of my SSH knowledge from it, but I'm not sure it's the best way to do it.” – felooboolooomba
- “For me, the best way to learn a tool is for a quick example or two showing its utility, then practicing with those, reading the man as needed on specific flags.” – matltc
Theme 2 – AI‑assisted or interactive tutorials speed up mastery
- “I personally do this, ask claude code to teach me about concepts I don't know about when it codes something, and only then I accept what it suggests to me.” – GL26
- “I do this all the time, I have a skill/gem with instructions on how I want to receive info, how to format and so on. Really helps to go fast to get the point.” – lfx
- “When I see one of these with obvious AI tells … I ask myself: Can’t I just open up a harness and prompt “Teach me how to do X?”” – trollbridge
Theme 3 – Practical SSH shortcuts and advanced usage
- “~C will drop you into the SSH command line, allowing you to, among other things, effect port forwarding” – buredoranna (example: -L8080:localhost:443)
- “Jumphosting was introduced in OpenSSH 7.3 2016-08-01.” – chasil (enables chaining bastions)
- “Learning how SSH port forwarding is great as a pseudo‑vpn for everything from GUI‑client database access …” – felooboolooomba
These three themes capture the most‑discussed takeaways from the thread.