I'm Brian Fox, Author of the Bash Shell, and This Is How I Work
Brian Fox is a titan of open source software. As the first employee of Richard Stallman’s Free Software Foundation, he wrote several core GNU components, including the GNU Bash shell. Now he’s a board member of the National Association of Voting Officials and co-founder of Orchid Labs, which delivers uncensored and…
It’s hardly insightful to suggest that the last few years have substantially changed the day to day experience of a knowledge worker. Nearly overnight even the most remote skeptical leadership teams were forced to embrace flexible work practices like working from home.
Why the EPA puts a higher value on rich lives lost to climate change
There is one number that the Environmental Protection Agency relies on to decide which climate policies to pursue. So why does that number assume the lives of richer people are worth more?
I read this recently and it got me thinking: It’s from Ted Gioia’s article, “14 Warning Signs That You Are Living in a Society Without a Counterculture.” It doesn’t seem true at first. Even though you could argue that mainstream culture is full of imitation, it's not necessarily
Analog computing may be coming back Link: https://bellmar.medium.com/guess-what-analog-computing-may-be-coming-back-280f8c0329a8 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34585958
"Being added to a playlist can be as transformative as being touched by a miracle, plucking an artist from relative obscurity and elevating them to the status of the genre’s poster child overnight. Playlisting is not a documentation of a scene, instead it’s about curating it, changing the tide of a movement and bending its trajectory in unexpected ways." 2/2 https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/life-cycle-of-internet-genres-scenes-hyperpop-digicore-cloud-rap
@dekkzz76@emacs.ch Very much so! 🤩 I also wrote some more about other exciting aspects of having an interactive #Forth environment running on an embedded platform in the final sections of this longread blog post: https://medium.com/@thi.ng/the-jacob-s-ladder-of-coding-4b12477a26c1 The immediate focus for this project might have been a synth, but the larger picture for me always is liveness of a system and interactive/explorative programming...
This post reframes the venerable Unix tool Make in an insightful way: "Makefiles are machine-readable documentation that make your workflow reproducible." Declaring dependencies documents the build process by making explicit the required sources, build steps and actions, and intermediate products, as well as their relationships. https://bost.ocks.org/mike/make #linux #unix
When Perl stole the thunder from AWK in the 1990s, after trying the new kid on the block I kept coming back to AWK for its simplicity and intuitivity. And Perl was overkill for me anyway. So I enjoyed reading this article that explains why AWK is still relevant, and how it managed to evolve without drifting away too much from its core design principles. https://www.fosslife.org/awk-power-and-promise-40-year-old-language #awk #linux
Time to study the classics: Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/16/opinion_column/?utm_medium=share&utm_content=article&utm_source=twitter Look back in wonder ← by @rupertgoodwins@mastodon.social on El Reg, and I think he makes excellent points
could really relate to @thetigerandthestrawberry s most recent writing piece https://chotrin.org/writing/2023-01-16.html 😊 I'm coming to fedi less and less, and posting ever more infrequently most of my writing is for myself, and I only just learnt (in the vaguest sense) how to have a voice for an audience online