I love this article. It’s really persuasive.

This is such a fascinating capsule of ideology/philosophy.

It also is a great overview of the various ways the tech industry as-is tries to screw you over.

Fascinating peak into both past and also the Unix culture. It was originally made in the mid 1980s.

Really neat to have this annotated version!

What are y’all’s take on this?

I hadn’t heard of it before. Seems to be built around a SIP stack and a DHT…?

OK, I’ve sent my code upstream.

Now all I can do is wish & hope that they won’t be mean or angry. Sending code to Emacs is always a frightening proposition 😰

Software Maxims

This blog post documents my understanding of how the conventions for Unix command line syntax have evolved over time. It’s not properly sourced, and may well be quite wrong. I’ve not been using Unix until 1989, so I wasn’t there for the early years.

A resource for exploring the design of command-line utilities. It is best used as an accompaniment providing useful background while reading the source code of the utility you may be interested in

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux

Tutorial on GnuPG’s features to sign, verify, encrypt, and decrypt files and messages for distribution over untrusted channels like the internet.