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		hinkley on Nov 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deprecating scp Burying the lede. We are all bad at it, but developers seem to be worse than most. Maybe it’s all the bottom up thinking we do.

kstrauser on Nov 6, 2020 [–]

I've become a big fan of military-style Bottom Line Up Front writing[0]. In this case, the article could have started with "we're deprecating the scp protocol and updating the scp command line utility to use the sftp protocol instead."

[0] https://www.animalz.co/blog/bottom-line-up-front/

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