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But what does it mean? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Enjoy the longer than usual newsletter this week! ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Now that's what news addicts will tell you, but then what are they doing with the info they get? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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I don't know the author of this quote, but I felt it properly encompasses the idea that people have different likings and that we should be ok with it. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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A classic quote to incite you to be out there this week. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Seems like trolls on the web control a lot of people. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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There's also the saying that the map is not the territory. Hence, maybe we should describe properly what we're talking about before even jumping to conclusion based on words that might carry meanings that were not initially intended. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Confusius, aka Kong Fuzi, had a much nicer way of saying "Living rent free in your head". ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Do you agree to agree, are you a contrarian, or others? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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As far as I'm concerned, I think this quote is about how worrying and anxiety is worse than the actual events. Do you agree, how would you interpret this? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Is that a control-freak quote, or do you see it in another light? Does freedom of action equal to power, and, "hence", happiness. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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That's a beautiful quote, what does it remind you of? Growth, mentoring, children, early beginnings, etc..? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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In what age do we live in? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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That's a classic quote, part of the pop culture, and of the modern day myth. But does it stand true, is anything of value only coming out of pressure, why is pressure valorized as the impetus or the action giving rise to what is cherished. What are diamonds and why do we value them? Isn't it because of marketing campaigns originating in the 40s. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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These days even the past can be re-interpreted, what do you think of that? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Do you agree with the idea that the most prominent medium of communication of an era is what defines it? What about the internet and social media, how do they define this generation? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Do you agree with this quote, what's the difference between traveling, adventure and tourism? Does the reach of multi-media platform convert these into objects of consumption? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Communication is frought with issues, remember the Shannon–Weaver model, among others, that portrays such things. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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What's identity, and are we only what we portray or do we all have a 'true' me inside of us. This is relevant in the age of the internet, everyone with one or multiple online persona that are puppet identities of us, molded how we want. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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The words we use often reflect how we think, even implicitly. We say 'fake it till you make it', that doesn't work most of the time, but with language it has a big effect. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Hope everything is going fine in your life. Let's appreciate the small pleasures of everyday, we never know what tomorrow will bring. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Do you agree that knowledge alone is power? What about taking action? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Do you think the same applies to computer science and programming, simple programs are beautiful, but what does this imply on the proof? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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This could be a sentence you tell yourself, or that someone else tells you. Often things happen that aren't caused by us, but we still have to deal with them. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Challenging quotes, I'll let you ponder on them since Mr.Wilde was so adamant to repeat the same idea in many of his work. On that note, let's mention this website: https://quoteinvestigator.com/, I find it fascinating to dive behind the origin of quotes. Even though most quotes are by definition extracted from their context and infinitely reinterpreted, I still like to shatter that and try to find even more meaning by doing so. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Since we're always adding quotes here, let's add a quote criticizing quotes/sayings. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Or said another way: https://m.xkcd.com/675/ ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Sometimes it's hard to do because we aren't aware of how people feel about things, most often we are wrong. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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But what is solitude in a world that's always connected, or are we even connected? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Good quote from a good movie. On that, have a wonderful week. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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I'll leave you hanging with this. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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While this applies to most things in our current type of economic society, do you think it also applies to sentimental and knowledge value too. Comparing daily news articles, let's say, to books or journal articles. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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These days it seems we're always running for something, wanting to fill all gaps, not wasting anything. But aren't we wasting something precious while at it? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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I truly enjoyed that video, search for it! ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Computer scientists were confused by such statement. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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I've finished reading the Time Machine, and kept wondering about this, especially in the context of the writing. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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... But everyone can have their own priorities too! I'll be busy tomorrow, and thus I'm sending the newsletter early this week. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Similar to this quote: "We Don’t See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are", which doesn't seem to have a clear origin. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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a year since we relaunched the newsletter after the previous multi-year
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Keep that in mind! ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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A programming quote that resonates with most of us. We've all encountered over-engineered codebases. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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A cliché quote, nevertheless, that makes you think about some things in your life. What's a group? What does membership means? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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tech bloggers in this issue. Kudos these fabulous writers, Julia Evans
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I kept wondering about this quote after watching this video. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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I've been diving into architecture topics these days, and it's akin to software in a lot of ways. The levels of designs, theories, and thoughts that go into constructing a space is incredible. Check just this. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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How can beauty promise happiness? And what kind of beauty would this
be? What sort of happiness? What do you find beautiful? What makes you happy? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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This has been an adage of computing, yet when taken to the extreme it can lead to such complex system with features that lay unused because the policy isn't relying on it. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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"Gotta go fast" to understand what some breathing space can offer. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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What a great quote to initiate the year, start with a change and growth mindset. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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https://www.publicstreet.org/derive ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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And now that there are talks of central banks digital currency along with cryptocurrency amongst others, plus a global economic crisis, this quote is even more obvious. We're left dumbstruck wondering why all this is happening. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Don't forget the online sphere is often a digital world of facades and templates. The rules we make up are all spectacles that we willingly choose to abide by. It's good to be reminded of that. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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The newsletter is a bit shorter this week, I was on holiday and didn't get the time to read more content. Have a great start of end of day, wherever you are in the world! ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Jean Rostand was a half-baked futurist/scholar in biology and other fields, interested in human evolution along with the degeneration of mankind and how to remediate it. A more famous quote of him is "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a God." ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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This is related to the quote in issue 125, "Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.". All and all, it seems that anything wrong, unexpected, and mistakes, will lead to more experience. Isn't that a tautology: Anything new will be an experience. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Is that why cold storage is great? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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We tend to think we got skills we sometimes don't have. One of them is reading other's minds, we can't do that. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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We just got to admit sometimes, we have no clue what we're doing. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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It's definitely better to be proactive than reactive. Yet, we can't be proactive with everything, we all have a limited amount of power. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Just some common sense, but that needs so often to be reminded. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Life's hard, sometimes we focus on momentary pain while we're on our path to something else. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Sometimes we dwell too much on the appearances or efficacy of all our minute actions. Why not take things more lightly this week, read and let it imprint you in whatever way it does, without forcing it. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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do. What are some changes others have noticed in you that you might not
have yet? Think back to the Johari window I mentioned back in issue 141,
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Yet another cheesy quote! Not one to take too literally, but one to
ponder upon. This isn't a call for action to let go and keep your head
high, nor to lose everything, but about what it means to take risks and
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Great quote that asks for due diligence. Rhetoric is an art and those
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What a cheesy quote, right? Also a big hyperbole! Yet, I think there's
some truth to it, programming computers does change the way you think
about some things and approach problems. It probably doesn't teach you to
"think" but it does teach you how to apply a certain methodological way
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An inspirational quote that you can listen to while working out. In all
seriousness, sometimes we pay more attention to what is happening around
us, what others are planning for, than what we would like to see. Think
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Life can take us on so many path, some of them taken deliberately, some
of them serendipitously. Yet, when we yearn for something, we want to
arrive there early, but for things that matter, it's the road that is
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A classic monologue, with a single punchline. Yet, I also think sunscreen is very important, put some today maybe. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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In continuation with the previous link, sometimes a fight isn't worth fighting. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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There's a lot of things we prepare for indirectly, unconsciously, but never actually practically do. Maybe because we're afraid of failure, consequences, or the unknown. This week, let's ponder on such scenarios, turning them from tacit to explicit and deliberate. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Be there for the people around you, this is something these past few years have made even more apparent. "A friendship isn’t a forced duty or responsibility, it’s a relation that we choose to keep out of love." ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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I'd take this further and put it as: prioritize talking about what you
love or learned instead of what bothered you, and if you absolutely have
to, at least put in a constructive way. I'm definitely guilty of this too,
and I know it's hard to get out when you start going down this spiral. In
the age of the internet, toxicity is omnipresent. Take some time to revise
your own Johari Window
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Coming from a film mastermind like Fritz Lang, this quote displays the difference in quality between craftmanship and mere industrial consumption. Do you feel the passion that you put in work, or that other put, shows up in the end? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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I like this quote, it applies in multiple places. Sometimes the pieces of the puzzle are missed because they're out of our expertise, touching domains that weren't even in our concern when approaching the problem. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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It's good to have the newsletter back. Think about people, hobbies, and others that you haven't given much attention to lately, maybe it's time to rekindle, to re-form bounds. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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This is going to be the last newsletter in quite a while. I'm going to take a pause and free up time to study software architecture, a topic that captivates me. I'll foster my love of diagrams explaning complex software stacks. vermaden will shortly send an email to the currently subscribed readers of this newsletter with a link to his to those who are interested. I hope you have a wonderful week! ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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ThoughtsI'm going on a two week vacations, so there won't be any newsletter in a while. Let's wish everyone a sweet month of June. Also, enjoy the scavenger hunt: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2275 ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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You may not always enjoy your days but there can still be something that could help you grow. You may not always enjoy a conversation but it could help you grow. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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A quote that may seem would lead to pessimism but that I think is about the contrary. I guess it goes along with the following:
or again:
It's not the end goal that matters, it's the path, the adventure on the way, the progress, the intention. Sometimes it has boundaries, sometimes it doesn't. However if you're satisfied with the status quo you'll stop your journey short. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Thought provoking, isn't it? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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I'm reviewing old articles on my blog and I'm surprised by how some ideas are even more true today. We live in a society that is increasingly attached to realism, that cannot take metaphors, abstract topics, and ambiguity. Maybe this is an idea worth sharing for those struggling out there. https://venam.nixers.net/blog/psychology/2017/05/23/deliberate-positive-illusion.html ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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ThoughtsThis week is a week of festivity in a lot of parts of the world. So let's share a piece that I've found helpful, maybe you'll find some value in it too. https://www.theminimalists.com/understanding/ ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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RandomThoughtsThis season needs elves, and this is what I'm giving you the most in this issue (actually this was so time consuming I couldn't give anything else). I hope you enjoy it, and happy holidays! ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Xero's Weekly Ricing Tipszathura is a vi{m,} like pdf and comicbook viewer. besides having vi like bindings and a minimal ui, zathura is
extremely "riceable" and has a awesome feature called "recolor".
when set to true, you can define custom colors for bg and fg of
textual documents, but it also sets images to greyscale and tints
them in matching inverted hues. here's my config for reference: https://github.com/xero/dotfiles/blob/master/zathura/.config/zathura/zathurarc cite:
rocx rocks at skteches
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpBC_jyg-go Some people live in a world where there are haters and lovers, people
that get you and others that don't, everyone judging each others,
scaling and measuring their behaviors, inspecting if everyone moves in
their plastic manner, pantomime, and making sure they never diverge
from their cookie-cutter molds otherwise we'd have to re-invent how we
perceive them. It's a world where one move means everything, where you
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Meditation, learning psychology, taking the time to teach ourselves about cognitive biases, controlling our day to day intents and attention, leading our future changes and directions. All those are things that are possible and we live in the best time to try them. As much as a cliché as this is I still thought of putting this as the thought of the week. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Going along with the last link of the random section, a thought that's been playing in my head for some time now is to "Make explicit what is implicit". We often assume wrongly that some things should go unsaid but it's always better to be clear about what we have understood, what we expect, what we would wish would be the best possible outcome, that's the only good way to avoid mistakes and misunderstandings. Also we need to add that this does not only apply to problematic scenarios but to any others, if we like something we should be explicit about what exactly what done right and what exactly we liked, this way everyone progresses. Have a wonderful week everyone. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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https://www.nctm.org/blog/ifmathistheaspirin/ I'm sending the newsletter early this week because I'm taking some vacations as a birthay gift to myself, I've worked 3 months in the span of 2 months. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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https://www.innoq.com/en/blog/do-we-worship-complexity/, somewhat of a reminder of "Holding it in my head" in issue 94. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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A quote from the "Twelve Natural Laws of Business", see
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You know the "Baader-Meinhof" effect, well it happened this week to. It seemed like everywhere I went chess made an appearance. From a series I'm watching with my significant other, to a podcast, to my coworker learning some new moves. Though I haven't got to play this week, ironically, but the concept that kept floating in my mind was the one found in this quote. The newsletter is coming early this week because I'm taking some small vacations, have fun everyone. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Why are we striving for what we are striving for. Does it make sense to focus more on it or to stabilize, spread out, and balance efforts into other things. To keep going on in the tournament we have to put more of ourselves in it and so less into other things. Maybe this is a warped up way of saying "rat race" maybe it's not, it depends on how deliberate we are about our decisions. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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This week we have a quote related to work culture, more precisely partnering up aka having coworkers or hiring. I've noted that quote when the "How to Start a Startup" course at Standford in Fall 2014 came out and have kept it in my mind since then. How do we know that the team is holding well together. Some of the criteria are in that quote, what others do you want to add? This can be your conversation starter for next week. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Maybe I don't need to say anything and gently leave those here:
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On a side note, we've broken the 240+ readers mark, congratulations everyone! I can't help but be happy at the thought that everyone deliberately chose to receive this newsletter, and that it only spread through word of mouth. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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A seemingly humble quote that should certainly be put in its context. Rumsfeld was a politician and this was something he said following 9/11 regarding "weapons of mass destruction" and the lack of evidence for them. There are multiple aspects to this, on one level it reminds us of our relation with our knowledge, on another it gives you a moment to stop and think before assuming or over-rationalizing, and finally it shows that cheesy quotes are often posted on social media without checking their background story (yet another week with cheesy quotes, I know!). ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Three quotes that are pretty much encompasses the same idea, to do things deliberately because this is what this is, not a future concept of what could be. Hope this can enlighten your week, cheers! ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Can't throw a cheesy quote without more context: This article takes it from the side of productivity (see "Over-Productive" in 78, "Production" in 66, and "The busy trap" in 32) however this is not really accurate as many of the most prominent inventors didn't have the mindset we today portray as overly obsessed with managing their time and work. The other side of it is that it's a reflection on paying attention to what matters to you, an appreciation of life. Have a great week! ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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For context: https://www.quotes-clothing.com/less-confident-are-more-serious-act-tara-ploughman/ I've always liked this quote, I have no clue if it's true but from anecdotal evidence I can assert it. Aren't the advices about being "more confident" pullulating the online self-help trend trying to say indirectly that we have to take ourselves and things in general less seriously. Yep, cheesy social media quote that actually has more in it than it looks. Have a wonderful week! ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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I've setup a new scavenger hunt on the forums, be sure to check it out: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2206. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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An idea similar to the thoughts in issue 74: Push your ideas out there in the wild, without spoon feeding people, without following the clickbait trend, all you have to do is prepare the content in the most appropriately consumable way for anyone that ever encounters it. PS: I've beaten last week record by making this newsletter longer than the last one. If you really enjoy it be sure to share it with your friends that might be interested. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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This was the longest newsletter I've compiled since the start of this project. I hope you're enjoying it as much as I am enjoying reading all those articles every week. Let me know if you find anything interesting to share with our close circle of readers. If you're intested in contributing in whatever form or way, there's always a list of ideas at the bottom of this newsletter on how you can do so. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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An essay about epistemology by Locke. http://enlightenment.supersaturated.com/johnlocke/BOOKIIChapterXI.html ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Probably one of the most cliché quote of all time, maybe it needs more pondering. Is it a limitation from the medium or from ourselves, what other types of media are we not using that could solve this? ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Xero's Weekly Ricing Tipsdid you know there are multiple terminal multiplexers? features like persistence, multiple windows, and session sharing are the common features sets. the big three all can be customized with at least a statusbar.
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Xero's Weekly Ricing Tipsfiglet/toilet: if you plan on creating your own figlet fonts, step one is reading the spec : http://www.jave.de/figlet/figfont.html there are lots of requirements people often miss (e.g. headerline values, required characters, etc) Random
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We've got your back... I think so.
I've been refreshing my algo skills and stumble upon that link.
I keep this guy's blog bookmarked and keep peeking at it from time to time. He's always up to something astonishing.
Here's another blog. There are articles about fun shell scripts and others about test with hardwares.
Apparently it had some papers backing its theory on the site. Let's see where this goes.
The answer is simple, ergonomics.
This tool is Linux only. It's for checkpoint and restore of program states. Imagine it as a "longer" suspend.
Coreutils but on steroids. My favorite amongst those is
Those "this tech is dying" articles are a bit abhorent. Mp3 isn't dead, it's free now. IRC is not dead, it's niche now. Random
A long & extremely interesting article about the mathematical constructs in our heads.
The latest article is about an automatic "babel fish"-like translator, check it out.
Why we should all accept that we might be wrong.
I showed that to someone and they said it was "lame". Thoughts
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This questionaire might help you choose the best "distro" for you. Now imagine if Google could do that with all the tracking information it has accumulated over the years!
A fan of retro museums? Yes and this one is small so you can read it.
I keep wondering at which point this was added in
When your child asks the question.
A wonderful article pondering about a common state of mind, intellectual view of the world, between Unix users.
Lots of talk, a lot of it.
Not directly linked to Unix but makes us think of the conundrum.
"Everyone" knows that awk kicks asses - Everyone should!
The hate of GUI on the side, this is really nifty. Xero's Weekly Ricing Tipsit's a .vimrc file that makes you look like a ninja. it's the absolute minimal setup. no colors, no highlights, no messages, no status bar, nothing. just text. "ninja vimrc http://xero.nu set nocompatible set modelines=0 set shortmess+=I set noshowmode set noshowcmd set hidden set lazyredraw set noruler set laststatus=0 syntax off filetype off Random
It's interesting how you can have a "default" emotions when not having emotions... And a bit frightening. That explains first impressions.
Different way of interacting and programming a machine.
I'm glad we can have those these days, excellent way for a 8-12yo to have fun and learn something along the way. It's fascinating that this generation of kids and beyond will learn programming just like learning to read and write. We'll see how it changes how people perceive life. The last link is about explorable explanation.
We've got your back with this fart generator.
Now that we have ThoughtsSolving today's problems with yesterday's technology, someday. ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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"When in need of a system to randomly fuck you up" - Quote writen by a non-sentient being stuck inside the infinite monkey theorem.
Regulate the traffic between your softwares and the world.
I'm not a crypto expert but I sort of get how arc4random works now... or maybe just a bit. Always belittled by the crypto gods of OpenBSD!
Yet another rant, a good one though a bit immature. I agree with most of the points he put forward. I guess the more you understand something the more you see its faults and the more you can expect the unexpected from it. That's still better than a black box.
That nasty old operating system that used to be considered too difficult for most people to use. Related to the previous video, it's funny when you look at the marketing aspect of Unix, the feud (Unix) wars and partnership between companies, some partnering with others you wouldn't guess. For example in the last video you had the Sun386i which ran DOS and UNIX on the same machine and using the OpenLook design by Sun partnering with AT&T plus some licensed technology from Xerox corporation. You also had the HP360 using the OSF Motif tech from both DEC, IBM, and HP. Then the Mac2cx by NextStep with the MAC user interface which was the cheapest of them all, unlike today's Apple product.
Where are you rocx, you can draw better than that dude.
A simple command which also has advance usage.
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Such a nice website. A bunch of free documentaries from the defcon guys.
Ascii is great.
We've got your back + spellcheck.
This was shared in a discussion. ThoughtsBy the way: I was a mediocre writer whenI started out. Explaining technical concepts is hard. Coming up with good examples takes time, and explaining a diicult concept takes time. So it’s easiest to gloss over the hard stuf. I thought I was doing a pretty good job, until ater one of my posts got popular, a coworker came up to me and said, “I read your post and I still don’t understand this.” I still had a lot to learn about writing.
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...Then test it on this website!
This guy puts into words the whole reason why I've switched away from tiling. And also his blog is pretty amazing too, so check that out.
This is a nifty little script, and the animation on the project page is hilarious.
Yet another one, and a good one at that.
Well, but we have some sort of standards too, you know.
A shell script that saved the day - the comment section is gold.
Having trouble remembering the HTTP status? "Unix in a nutshell", a reference book about Unix stuffs.
A lot of the links are dead but some are not, and that's important. I love those oldies, check this one for example: https://web.archive.org/web/20090302112430/http://freeengineer.org:80/learnUNIXin10minutes.html it's another one of those "learn everything in one page".
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When you become expert in a domain you loose the ability to be surprised.
Sometimes it's worth it to pursue random ideas. Thoughts"Chris Dixon captured this guerrilla pattern of the ongoing shift in political power with a succinct observation: what the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years." ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Brace yourself for some horror stories.
To continue with the horror stories, there are many arguments on the internet about Linux and it's purity as a Unix system. Some of those arguments are just to be discarded, others are serious. Like any criticism if it's not constructive you have to take it lightly.
All that is required is that it stays stable for the enterprise world by following the POSIX and Open Group standards. The EulerOS 2.0 and K-UX 3.0, derived from Red-Hat prove that, even though they aren't derived from the original UNIX and under the hood have a different architecture.
An article that goes to the root of the issue.
Some hilarious oldies scripts that could possibly be useful, such as this one: http://www.brendangregg.com/Specials/mkzombie_example.txt
The turbo button was one of those weird thing of the past that doesn't mean much these days.
To continue on with our series of links about JS and the web, here's one that's not about emulation but about running a shell in the browser. Last time I've heard of that it was about pwning websites through web-shells. The last link, the research paper, gives another interesting side to the story.
Programmers get pissed off a lot by useless semantics, etymologies, and epistemology. This is a fun way to put things back in perspective, which reminds me of the new-age bullshit generator (http://sebpearce.com/bullshit/)
Last week I mixed up two links.. https://vim-adventures.com/ and passweird, sorry 'bout that fellows. Vim adventure is a great and really addictive way to learn about vim. Though, it's only free until lvl3.
Please come back on the forums, we love you! rocx rocks at sktechesA sketch related to one of the above links: Random
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Ever wondered what the code in movies really was.
Don't be shy to ask questions or contribute to conversations. ThoughtsThe art of not giving a fuck, "Ever watch a kid cry his eyes out because his hat is the wrong shade of blue? Exactly." https://markmanson.net/not-giving-a-fuck ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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The big question of "should the Wayland protocol include networking support or should the Wayland compositor implement it?"
So many minimal system, here are two new ones you can add to your list, and a link to pidsley from the linuxbbq community who always impresses us with his ricing. On a side note, Linuxbbq has a wonderful and thriving community.
Have fun trying this new Unix-like OS.
"compgroups give users free access to computer public newsgroups."
Databases of file extensions and information.
"My BSD sucks less" a talk that dives inside technical differences between FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
I always find those kind of reverse hacking/(script kiddie ddos
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This goes along well with the book we shared some weeks ago "The Craft of Text Editing" (https://www.finseth.com/craft/), I read only half of that book, it was too much indepth for me. However some readers might find value in this and so I'm sharing! Random
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Want to meetup with other compatible Gods in your region, checkout this website, it's the next-gen meetup.com.
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Mind boggling post about parallelism in shell pipelines.
The ten immutable laws of security and why physical access means game over.
The keyboard for the MIT LISP machine that inspired EMACS.
An ed-like interface to do many things. Mathreference is also edbrowse-friendly.
On the topic of inputs, here's a writing method you should know about.
It's a pain to transparently jump through ssh hosts, this article discusses a method of removing some of the hassle.
Check your shell options and differences in expansion and globing.
Yet again an oldschool wizard with a phenomenal blog.
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A presentation about the modern web.
If you're the kind of person that needs accountability to continue their streak this website may help.
Advanced minesweeper tactics.
Different views on 0days.
...and it's a dead link! But don't worry there are Firefox addons (Hey, you're getting away from Google so you're certainly not gonna start using Chrome) that can disable tracking such as beef taco, the builtin "opt out" mechanism in the settings, privacy badger, disconnect, or any EFF approved addon.. ThoughtsIf you understand something, it is probably already obsolete - James Burke ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Manipulating language is an extensive subject, and unlike the researches in NLP those links are truly "Unix-relevant".
Doug Englebart is the father of HCI, go and raise up those poor 89 YT views.
The first link here is probably the best gradual approach to Unix I could ever find. Share it with your friends to see how it goes.
A collage of Unix clips found in various movies.
These days it seems like javascript is eating up everything, so why not emulate what could run on bare metal over javascript instead.
This is a beautiful, extensive, and visual guide/book to writing manpages. Keep this bookmarked so that you can use it as a reference next time you need it.
Doug McIlroy recently released a paper, it discusses communication files, which were a not well known and complext IPC tech. He also mentions the directed shell: https://www.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/sw/dgsh/
You might enjoy this article if you're able to make sense of it.
Read up to find the answer...
This website disects your command line into a human readable format. Random
A follow up on last week sharings about creativity, this website allows you to create dynamic directed graphs where you can explore the relation between the nodes live.
The phrack hacking magazine has been ongoing since 1985 and still uses the same ascii format for releases, which is perfect for us. Most of the articles are technical ones but you can find philosophical ones such as: http://phrack.org/issues/69/6.html#article
Have you ever wondered what kind of softwares run on a Tamagotchi?
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Here's a Unix family tree, a FreeBSD family tree, and as a bonus, a window managers family tree.
I've shared this project during the podcast about window managers (https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2048), I keep coming back to it and want the readers to at least give it a glance if they didn't already. A lot of the videos are dead but the concepts still live.
Small is beautiful... Now compare that 64KB with the 1GB in this 1x1.5inch machine.
A series of 7 parts on frequently asked questions about Unix, there's a lot of interesting ones in there.
The whole blog is hilarious and well made, I applaud the guy who made it.
Unix can be art too - this is not what you think it is.
A book I started reading about the concepts behind building a text editor.
A story why closed source can be dangerous to society.
So many Unix flavors/distros that you need a translator between them. An article about those guys... You know.
This is a very frequent question.
This is yet another of those random stumbled upon website. Random
Creativity is about mixing new stuffs together in interesting ways.
Another one of those magnificent golden websites.
Finally a useful js library!
No, this isn't the matrix you know but it's related. The matrix protocol tries to create a ubiquitous standard for anonymous communication. Thoughts
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Probably one of the best document I've read about "Explaining the whole of Unix in one shot", he even uses the prompt "GREENSCREEN". I can't emphases how good this page is. The author is a Google Engineer and has also written a beautiful window manager ahwm ( http://www.hioreanu.net/cs/ahwm/ ) which is especially well documented.
Creating a timeout for a system call on Unix isn't very clean but isn't very necessary either.
I've linked to anonradio.net before and this one is similar but technology oriented. You'll find a bunch of episodes on Unix there.
z3bra started the third edition of the scavenger hunt.
A hilarious and well written blog about explaining "complex" Unix and Linux topics to newcomers.
A story about digital data PTSD. we all cherish our data - so run your backups and think about having less ties with your machine. The author is a MacOS user so it'll only be relevant to the readers who are on this OS however I really like the description of the state of mind he got into which is the main reason I am sharing it.
A great post about the virtues of the Unix shell and why it is the way it is.
A cross-Unix shell script which creates a compressed file (many format available) which can extract itself.
He's got the beard, he got the years, here's an impressive fellow.
The original vi was based on ed, which was closed source. Now that ed was released under the BSD license we can test the original vi code. Random
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To innovate you have to see beyond your closed field of study. ThoughtsThis is the issue number 13. It is weird that we associate so much with numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_(number) some use it as a lucky number and others as an unlucky one. Many benign things are culture dependent. ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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If you were paid to rewrite glibc for embedded devices, how would it be. Staying away from GPL is a big thing for corps.
Writing shell scripts is hard when you have to support POSIX shell, here are some tricks to make it easier. Keep that bookmarked.
In a previous issue we linked to the
Code of conducts, rules, FAQ, README_BEFORE_FREAKING_POSTING, so many
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Slides of a presentation by Rob Pike about the Unix heritage.
...And adding to this, before reaching the TTY the keybind has to pass by
maybe some program, some terminal emulator plugins, and the shell. You
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Those wikis will fancy your exotic hardware needs.
Before Netscape all browsers were proprietary. Both of the ones I linked worked on Unix platforms.
Davinci Resolve 12.5, a professional and proprietary software for video editing, was recently ported to CentOS 6.x (Yeah, only one specific distro). I'm not into video editing but as I've read the state of professional video editing softwares on Unix is not so good.
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It really makes you think about how automated an free the world can become. From 1946 to today where we're dreaming of seasteading and modular houses built with 3d printers. What do you think? ThoughtsShow me how you spend your day and I'll tell you what you care about. http://ewanvalentine.io/how-to-never-complete-anything/> Why complicate things? The software industry and programmers of today are looking for too much achievements, stacking the "green blocks" on GH, looking for confirmation of their existence, checking graphs and statistics about their "progress", wanting to raise on the "SSI", social selling index. Let's slow down a bit! Small changes for a small group is more valuable than running against titans If it is useful to someone and kind of serves the purpose then that is enough for a start. ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Isn't it wonderful that we live in an age where there are so many free information at our fingertips that we can't make sense of them.
This websites regroups, in an artistic fashion, many original phone homescreens.
There are not many articles going through the font stack and I think it's worthy to mention the podcast we had last week.
I don't really know who this guy is but he's earned my respect. His resume is orgasmic http://icculus.org/resume and he even taught me how to make mushroom burgers http://chef.icculus.org/ ... who knows it might be Gordon Ramsey's relative.
Funny isn't it?
The place to go to get your shell tricks.
jkl won a bet by creating a tool to estimate the weight of a file.
Maybe you've heard the term "powerline" but had no idea what it was about. Now you know, is too much not enough?
The first link might be enough for you but you can go on with the rest if you wish to.
Some times ago it wasn't as frequent to share your special dots and scripts. Those are the one of the author of "Beginning Perl" and "Advanced Perl Programming". RandomWe are all similar in some sense, all following trends.
Apparently not everyone knows about this wonderful service.
Who'd thought that fish (cam) would live for so long... ThoughtsHave you ever heard of futurists? https://research.fb.com/prophet-forecasting-at-scale/? That thought alone can lead you to cognitive dissonance. ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Some many programs to help you keep track of what you want to do. As
for me a simple
Again so many softwares doing the same thing, we need more comparative
reviews/articles about them. I don't have any personal favorite, I
would've liked to use terminal markdown viewer
In the 80s the URSS had their own DEC’s PDP11 compabible cpu and thus could run their own version of Unix-like OS derived from Unix Version 6.
I can't read any of those but I enjoy the thought of it.
You may want your cool short key but beware of collision.
"Master the command line, in one page", ostentatious title but worthy article.
The keyboard layout is handled at the X11 layer, I haven't been through the pdf about the protocol but you can still glance through it rapidly.
I had never wondered about this topic before, are our current font dialogs designed in the most efficient manner? Now that the topic is brought to light I can't help but think of it everytime I choose a font in an application.
A Unix history website, even though look oldish, that is still maintained (Last Update: January 29 2017). Random
Another one of those cool net-art website.
Unix is all about text files, so many text files to browse on that website.
The best of glitch art.
No need to rely on the internet anymore. ThoughtsWe're brainstorming on the topic of "digital focus/attention studies
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What happens when you loose the ability to speak and need free software.
A walkthrough the find utility.
In depth into 2038.
Firefox is undergoing a lot of changes lately. Are those changes influenced by competition, do you like what is happening, are the addons support left out of the plan? Whatever the case, it's still free software. A comprehensive overview of how git stashing works.
Regardless... The article is amazing.
Talking about unstandard standards, here's our last one that has finally been christened (after so many years of being a lonely unamed orphan). Prepare your mimedb because you'll need to add text/markdown.
Software developers depression is a real thing, don't take it lightly. Here are some websites with free versions of popular games.
Checkout this dude's irc setup, it's worth your time and patience. Random
We're also trying to find inspiration for our own internet badge: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2056
If you haven't heard of this internet phenomena you should look it up now.
A chapter on a book about network forensics evasion.
Looking for inspiration, here's a phenomenal website. ThoughtsYou can learn from anyone, you simply have to approach the situation with this intent and keep reminding yourself of this. ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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ThoughtsThe last episode of the nixers podcast took me a huge amount of research unfortunately the audio recording didn't turn out as good as I wanted (I was too tired.) You can read the transcript on the forums: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2052&pid=17479#pid17479 I've learned quite a lot of things during the preparation and you might too. The thought of this week is: A community is a community because it's community driven. Share your knowledge and your time with others, you're running the show! I love you guys. Contribute(Thanks to everyone who contributed with links.) There are many ways to contribute:
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Multiple implementation of simple webservers.
This function may also help understand it: https://github.com/pclouds/busybox-w32/blob/2762242f30d0d046a80abe41fd78415052bbe95f/libbb/executable.c#L100 This is a nifty way to implement timeout.
A discussion about the real innovations that were brought, take whatever you want from it.
Some thoughts about minimalism in the computing world.
This was linked in the previous post but I think it's worth it to link it again here so that you are more enticed to read it.
We had a discussion about static blog generation and those came along.
Here's a list of the runlevels on different Unix-like OS.
This system is so misunderstood and differently implemented. Also check credential(7).
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Welcome to the internet! Again one of those trollish websites we all love. ThoughtsThere are things we only learn when we have to face them. Don't be stagnant. ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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A mailing list about Unix system administrators horror stories. If you've had one, you can share it on this thread: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1882
The blogger maybe just wanted to annoy you before reaching his wonderful blog: https://anders.unix.se/
A glossary of multiple subjects.
Very nice comparison.
The homepage of a great dude.
There's a lot of talk about "true randomness" and random pool but does it hold up.
Here's dmr discussing the development of the C language. A wonderful presentation about today. You are all MONSTERS! Written by this dude: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev and to judge accordingly. Random
We were discussing street riots and I pointed out how berserk they were and acted out fearing their annihilation. We'll that's exactly what berserker are about.
We should also start our own icecast stream. ThoughtsHere's a typical blog post: http://ttimo.typepad.com/blog/2006/06/rant.html ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Irc culture, flamming, and trolls, does that ring a bell?
Going with the recent podcast about shells https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2047 , here's a software to fight the Bash specific syntax.
Why bash on bash when there's csh instead!
A backstory on the misquoted famous comment of the Unix V7 source.
Here are some concepts you should definitely know when dealing with process management.
I don't really get the "what you need to do to get a job in 10 steps"-kind of articles but I'll still feature this one. Let Eric Raymond take you on a journey through the means of IPC on the unix-like platforms.
We usually enter a username and password as credentials but what if we could ssh instead?
Are you a sysadmin?
We featured in the last newsletter the Random
Checkout what those rms-like free artists are doing.
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Ever spent time configuring X and wondered what those subpixels were? Xerox has influenced so many of today's graphical interface concepts. You know the times in the first link but have you heard of the one in the second?
Automated cleaning of spaces. Gopher preceded the internet, here's its story.
Are you fan of those nice patterns?
One of the rare interview with dmr.
I've never thought about it before because I'm not a big mouse user but that's how you enable middle mouse scrolling.
Some philosophy written by a master of minimalism. Random
We rather ofter hear stories from our fellow members about their universities and so I'd like to share mine. We used to have fun at the libraries with those when we were young. Thoughts"z3bra: it's the curse of the nix community everyone takes it as a personal attack when they're told their wrong"
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A post from stark/abhx that lists ways to reduce memory and processor usage.
This book uses plan9 as an avatar to describe the principles of abstraction that most operating systems have. It isn't a hard read.
A gradual and practical introduction to functional programming. It is lightly and nicely written.
Ctags incorporates with most text editors and IDEs... If you have no clue what it is I urge you to check it out.
An article written by tejr going through must known privacy softwares and parts on Linux (though most apply to any Unix flavors.) Strong privacy, is it still possible? A series of articles about network programming. Let's wait until z3bra releases his next course https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=1928.
/sys on Linux is well documented and this is where you will find the documentation for whatever you can dynamically tweak in your Linux kernel.
Wanna give BSDs a try in 2017 to up those stats?
A tutorial on getting mumble running in the terminal. (You may need to translate the article) Random
A great documentary about BBS. ThoughtsWoah, this newsletter packs up a lot of content. You won't be able to consume it all but don't worry you have all of 2017 to do so. Let's make 2017 a dynamic year, full of projects, interactions, and new phenomenal people joining in. Stay updated! ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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Use the speed of multiple interfaces together.
The tale of the teletype printer.
Need I say more...
A fairly simple and straight forward introductory tutorial on using strace.
netdata only work on Linux and seems to be a memory hog but it's still interesting to look at what the next-gen ui look like (until we can afford to run them.)
Protect yourself from port scanning or attacks using PF or IPtables.
An interactive series of article going in depth into the X11 protocol.
Signup for a free shell account on a public access UNIX system.
A Harward teacher reference web page. http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/ And yet another university teacher reference page, this one follows the old Unix tilde homepage url formula, which reminds me of...
Launching back the early days where almost every web server ran some version of Unix and things went wild. Random
If you have time for some technological talks those are still fresh.
This website let's you send an email to your future self. I've tried it myself and it's surprising. With the new year arriving it might be a great way to tell your future self if you've achieved what you wanted to. Thoughtshttp://www.unixtimestamp.com/ ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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The university days of a student and how a simple event can impact a life. We all live in a world where traffic is thought to be a positive word, but traffic is looking at a car accident an forgetting the next second. What about less people and more value.
A section of a book, "Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective", analyzing the
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A project to make a pdp-7 run again. 0verkill an oldish-like game you will like. Source can be found here: https://github.com/hackndev/0verkill.git To install simply run: ./rebuild
In relation with this discussion: https://nixers.net/showthread.php?tid=2024
A simple question with a simple answer.
Have you ever wondered? To explain to any of your non-technie friends.
Go through this once, it's an agglomeration of all the man pages related to the shell language. Random
This is a gift from xero ThoughtsHappy Hacky-Holidays nixers! For those with x11:
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ThoughtsIt's starting to get cold outside, keeping a Unix machine next to you
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