I just think they're neat Not sure writing motivation paragraph for this makes sense. There's no logical thinking pipeline to it, just me liking underground computer stuff. History of Bell Labs and Unix The history of Unix dates back to the mid-1960s, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Labs, and General Electric were jointly developing an experimental time-sharing operating…
The year was 2014ish when I had my first Linux ritual initiation: "Hm, I will just delete this package, doesn't look like something I use. Yeah, a ton of text, confirm confirm. Shit's easy." Inevitably, unaware of what the calamity I have just caused, I shut down the PC. Next time, when I turned it on, it boots into something looking like this: # Luckily, in those days, I was no stranger to distro…
Why would anyone do this? So, ever since I started programming and learning Python, tuples were something I had a very Cold War type relationship with. It was something you used in a world in which lists didn’t exist. Something you used while you were troubleshooting ssh-ed into a web server running only vi in a screen resolution you only thought was possible in bootloader physical console and…