Unix

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s16e01 2023-09-22 2,051 words · 10 min read I too aspire for my memory to be safe … Is it as if we've been building with a certain kind of concrete for a long, long time (Unix was rewritten in C in 1972, so it …
s12e49 2022-08-13 1,943 words · 10 min read Google Slides is a Feature, not an App; Choices; Here, take one of these … 1.0 Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Slides is a Feature, not an App Google Slides is terrible but, you know, in that Unix is terrible …
s07e13 2019-10-14 4,621 words · 23 min read No, not a mid-life crisis; Snow Crashing … And yes, if I’d studied computer science earlier or if I’d played with Unix systems (hi, Lexie from Jurassic Park!) earlier, then I’d probably also …
s07e08 2019-09-25 2,808 words · 14 min read Jeremy Bearimy … 1.2 A Unix System! Hey, did you know that Lexi from Jurassic Park (“A Unix system! I know this!”) would’ve been around twelve years old in …
ep 180 2014-10-31 1,879 words · 9 min read Web Directions South; A Thousand Songs In Your Pocket; Odds … When Webb talked about the design of the early operating systems and the way that computers see the world, that in the Unix philosophy (specifically, the Unix philosophy …
ep 175 2014-10-09 2,513 words · 13 min read Housekeeping; Private In Public; It's The Basics … If you were a student in the 90s, you probably got a Unix shell account and had a public website address at http://some.college.edu/~username/ or …
ep 170 2014-09-26 1,064 words · 5 min read Small Pieces, Loosely Joined; The New Slang … 1.0 Small Pieces, Loosely Joined My interpretation of the "small pieces, loosely joined" is that it's an explanation of the design philosophy first of Unix, and …
ep 161 2014-09-13 1,273 words · 6 min read Ecks Oh, Ecks Oh; Just In Time … There was a post going around a while back - the idea that all the tiny Unix utilities were being unbundled and made consumer-friendly, turned into apps or …
ep 26 2014-02-27 2,831 words · 14 min read An Alternative; Washing; Users … thinking - sloppy code doesn't work c) the possibility of government emulating the Unix philosophy of being strict in what it emits, but flexible in what it accepts …
ep 16 2014-02-13 1,076 words · 5 min read Feynman and Adams, Surveillance … The Unix philosophy of many pieces, loosely joined, has been extended to our selves, as simulacra and models are created from our detritus. So this is the deal …
ep 11 2014-02-06 1,685 words · 8 min read The Cult of Making, Shooting Fish In Jean Michel Jarre's Barrel … I like seeing how things fit together and, in a kind of Unix-y way, like seeing how I can join things together. If we take *this thing …