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ThoughtsThis is the first fressh issue of this new year. As cliché as it sounds let's emphasize some thoughts about change. Remember those "Culture clash" from 86 and "Edge effect" from 84, let's start on this tone. Give yourself permission to make yourself a priority, at least for a while. Try out new things, or continue what you've left behind, or simply grow on the same path.
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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
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when set to true, you can define custom colors for bg and fg of
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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
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scaling and measuring their behaviors, inspecting if everyone moves in
their plastic manner, pantomime, and making sure they never diverge
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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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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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I'm going to link the archived newsletter from now on because it seems like not everyone sees them. I'm also going to use different email titles for every issues, including the issue number in it, which is something I should've done a long time ago. Thanks for all the feedbacks, we now have 197 subscribers. ArchiveYou can find the archive of past newsletters here: ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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This is a controversial quote but one that couldn't be more timely. Rationalizing our behaviors has become the everyday toy of many. PS: There are some new changes on the forums, let us know what you think of them. ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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That quote couldn't be more wrong. What do you think? ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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We live in an age where we don't have to lift our fingers, so much that it has become an issue. This might be of religious origins but can easily be taken out of this context and applied to anyone. 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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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.
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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.
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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".
A wonderful online book about why we are where we are today and how to continue moving forward. Random
A bunch of safe resources to practice.
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
Share the most wtf secrets you have.
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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Security through obscurity.
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
botnet) post interesting, even though his post is more or less
of a bragging about the
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
Ever dreamt of having to remember a password and tell yourself "If only someone knew this."
Generate some "Web Economy Bullshit".
Want to meetup with other compatible Gods in your region, checkout this website, it's the next-gen meetup.com.
A play on word with how the internet of things is "secure". ThoughtsYeah, but people still use this stuff - Tony Lawrence ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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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.
"The world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer." Random
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?
Thanks josuah for that wonderful link. ThoughtsWe all feel like newbies... and if you don't you're nuts! ContributeThere are many ways to contribute:
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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
You would never guess why...
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
can use the RFC as a reference for when you don't know what a control
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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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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).
Share your tricks (and horror stories along the line.) Random
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?
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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
source code of the
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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