Unixism: Of consoles and blinking cursors

From Jimmy Miller’s blog: Starting at the age of 12, I was given $20 a week for my food. (If it was a good week. Otherwise it might $10 or even $0). During the school year that meant I just had to make that stretch for dinner and the weekends — I had free school…

Kevin Purdy writing for Ars Technica: If you wanted to use “Real-Time Linux” for your audio gear, your industrial welding laser, or your Mars rover, you have had that option for a long time (presuming you didn’t want to use QNX or other alternatives). Universities started making their own real-time kernels in the late 1990s. A patch…

From Julio Merino’s newsletter: Brilliant read for those of you interested in operating system design.

From Unix.foo In June of 2023 Red Hat made a controversial decision to change how they distribute the source code behind Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). There have been a lot of keyboards tapped angrily across social media that left many uncertain about the ramifications of the decision. There were many questions about the future…

Shay Banon writing on the Elastic blog: [LOVE.] The tl;dr is that we will be adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL in the coming weeks. We never stopped believing and behaving like an open source community after we changed the license. But being able to use the term Open Source, by…

From Kenneth Nym’s blog: using llm to write code is like asking an artist to paint for you. if you only want the end result, by all means! if you are like me who enjoy the process of painting, then why would you bother automating the fun part away? one may say, “but i am…

From Alex Yancey’s blog: Light story on how the ability to program can be a superpower.

Senthilkumar Palani writing for OSTechNix: What’s probably making it easy for Linux here is the fact that the real operating system for most “apps” that people actually use, is the browser. The underlying operating system (Linux/macOS/Windows) is just the device driver for whatever hardware that’s running the browser. That is—at least for most people. Nevertheless, the…

Kay Savetz on The Internet Archive’s blog: The Internet Archive is now home to 53 episodes of The Famous Computer Cafe, a 1980s radio show about the new world of home computers. The program included computer industry news, product reviews, and interviews, and aired from 1983 through 1986 on radio stations in southern and central California.…

From Steve Simkin’s blog: Every now and then I would update a plugin in Neovim and everything would break, and I would have to spend time fixing it instead of getting work done. This resulted in slimming down my config more and more, but there was still so much that went into making all the…