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I largely agree with the "Turing-complete user" article, which argues that thinking in terms of the user (rather than a "user experience", or similar) is sensible in the context of general-purpose tools.
to design philosophy ui unix ... on 28 November 2012
"fsniper is a utility that waits for a file to be changed, then executes a command on that file."
Everything Sysadmin: 4 unix commands I abuse every day
Some handy Unix tricks. "grep ." (or, rather, "grep ''") is one I use quite a bit, but using par to produce single words was new.
Series: Unix as IDE « Arabesque
A philosophy I also subscribe to.
to ide software-design tools unix ... on 16 September 2012
A comprehensive history of Unix shells, and the subtle differences between them.
to retrocomputing shell unix ... on 06 August 2012
For the three or four people who have a machine capable of running Amix, you can get it from here.
to amiga amix retrocomputing sysv unix ... on 06 August 2012
Emulates various Sun machines.
Some useful general programming advice.
to ag0700 programming style unix ... on 24 May 2012
A guide to writing man pages. Particularly useful because it describes the best way to do this with modern man tools.
retrobsd - BSD Unix for microcontrollers with no MMU. - Google Project Hosting
Cute.
to bsd microcontroller mips software unix ... on 23 May 2011
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tasty by Adam Sampson.