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