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I am profoundly grateful for lftp

My hobby computing life has been made so much more pleasant by lftp.

Most of these projects involve writing markup or code that is compiled and then shipped to a server somewhere.

My workflow for setting this up is usually:

Assume lftp will make this easy
Google what I want to do
Find a very clear post somewhere of someone who has done this
Test it
Discover it does exactly what I want
Read the docs and find out a new, useful lftp feature I never knew about

I once used Unison for this, but lftp is just ergonomically easier to use for most servers I maintain (or for managed servers that I rent from some 3rd party.)

Unison

Thanks to whoever invented lftp, and to all the folks who have worked on it since. It's delightful, and I love it.