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Shell & TerminalHow-To September 16, 2026 2 min read

How to Configure a Custom Prompt With Starship

A complete walkthrough installing Starship — a fast, shell-agnostic prompt that works identically across Bash, Zsh, and fish — and configuring exactly which information it shows.

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Shell & TerminalFix September 7, 2026 3 min read

Fixing a Broken Prompt Theme After an Update

Your carefully configured prompt suddenly shows broken characters, missing icons, or throws errors on every new shell after updating a theme or framework. Here's how to isolate whether it's a font, config, or version issue.

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Shell & TerminalDeep Dive August 30, 2026 3 min read

How Shell Prompt Customization Actually Works

That colorful prompt showing your git branch, exit code, and current directory isn't a separate program running alongside your shell — it's a string your shell re-evaluates before every single command.

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