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It’s all in the name

Anthropic pulled off a marketing heist with Mythos

Supplying Git a commit message prepared ahead of time

Low-brow clipboard integration with remote X

Closing for trouble in the land of streams

Closing stderr/stdout/stdin outright is a bad idea

How to eject external hard disks used for APFS TimeMachine backups (I’m not making this up)

Comparing the contents of gzipped tarballs

The Programmers’ Credo

Maciej Cegłowski identifies the programmer’s attitude

“CAPTCHA”

“POSIX hardlink heartache”

“Learning to Read, Again”

David Kolb’s reflections on how reading and its meaning has evolved

A proposed adequate definition of a data breach

Stop The Humour

Straight talk from Jeff Johnson

Early Signs

An anniversary reminder from Jamie Zawinski

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Canonical Log Lines

A simple pattern to simplify harnessing the power of logs

Glimmer of hope

Fraser Speirs on the long-term effect of the tablet

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Metadata about storage entities does not apply to their content

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Mutually assured intel

A soundbite on the anti-parochial complexity of high-tech

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Reaping Mosh’s full benefits for long-running terminal sessions

Don’t be a problem-solver

Resist tools and abstractions

Backoff

A simple, robust algorithm for backoff

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Six Stages of Debugging

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Namespace droppings and bozotic aggregator developers