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Starting scripts with ' /usr/bin/env <whatever>' is rarely useful (utcc.utoronto.ca)
5 points by ingve 4 months ago | past | 1 comment
Some practical challenges of access management in 'IAM' systems (utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by gm678 4 months ago | past
People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers (utcc.utoronto.ca)
90 points by sugarpimpdorsey 4 months ago | past | 58 comments
Another thing V7 Unix gave us is environment variables (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by ingve 4 months ago | past
Unix had good reasons to evolve since V7 (and had to) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
6 points by ingve 4 months ago | past | 2 comments
Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e' (utcc.utoronto.ca)
166 points by zdw 4 months ago | past | 49 comments
Why I write recursive descent parsers, despite their issues (2020) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
126 points by blobcode 4 months ago | past | 86 comments
Projects can't be divorced from the people involved in them (utcc.utoronto.ca)
5 points by zdw 4 months ago | past
Checklists are hard, but still a good thing (utcc.utoronto.ca)
171 points by zdw 4 months ago | past | 84 comments
People want someone to be responsible for software that fails (utcc.utoronto.ca)
4 points by zdw 4 months ago | past
Doing web things with CGIs is mostly no longer a good idea (utcc.utoronto.ca)
4 points by ingve 4 months ago | past
Filesystems and the problems of exposing their internal features (utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by colinprince 4 months ago | past
(Maybe) understanding how to use systemd-socket-proxyd (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by zdw 5 months ago | past
What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by colejohnson66 5 months ago | past
The easiest way to interact with programs is to run them in terminals (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by ingve 5 months ago | past
Filesystems and the problems of exposing their internal features (utcc.utoronto.ca)
4 points by ingve 5 months ago | past
Operating system kernels could return multiple values from system calls (utcc.utoronto.ca)
14 points by ingve 5 months ago | past | 2 comments
What is going on in Unix with errno's limited nature (utcc.utoronto.ca)
65 points by ingve 5 months ago | past | 48 comments
How you can wind up trying to allocate zero bytes in C (utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by ingve 5 months ago | past
The "personal computer" model scales better than the "terminal" model (utcc.utoronto.ca)
33 points by zdw 5 months ago | past | 20 comments
Some bits on malloc(0) in C being allowed to return NULL (utcc.utoronto.ca)
55 points by ingve 5 months ago | past | 80 comments
The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals (utcc.utoronto.ca)
110 points by zdw 5 months ago | past | 72 comments
I feel open source has turned into two worlds (utcc.utoronto.ca)
121 points by sdht0 5 months ago | past | 50 comments
Linux kernel WireGuard can go 'fast' on decent hardware (utcc.utoronto.ca)
43 points by zdw 5 months ago | past | 8 comments
What would a multi-user web server look like? (A thought experiment) (utcc.utoronto.ca)
5 points by ingve 5 months ago | past
Python argparse has a limitation on argument groups that makes me sad (utcc.utoronto.ca)
29 points by zdw 6 months ago | past | 16 comments
I have divided (and partly uninformed) views on OpenTelemetry (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by valyala 6 months ago | past
You could automate (some) boilerplate Go error handling with a formatter (utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 point by ingve 6 months ago | past
Our Grafana and Loki installs have become 'legacy software' here (utcc.utoronto.ca)
5 points by gpi 6 months ago | past | 1 comment
I have divided (and partly uninformed) views on OpenTelemetry (utcc.utoronto.ca)
2 points by ingve 6 months ago | past | 1 comment

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