Contemporary Home Computing

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 documentation

"fsniper is a utility that waits for a file to be changed, then executes a command on that file."

to inotify software unix ... on 25 November 2012

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.

to tips unix ... on 28 September 2012

Series: Unix as IDE « Arabesque

A philosophy I also subscribe to.

to ide software-design tools unix ... on 16 September 2012

~sven_mascheck/

A comprehensive history of Unix shells, and the subtle differences between them.

to retrocomputing shell unix ... on 06 August 2012

AmigaUnix

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

The Machine Emulator

Emulates various Sun machines.

to emulation netbsd solaris sun unix ... on 19 June 2012

Basics of the Unix Philosophy

Some useful general programming advice.

to ag0700 programming style unix ... on 24 May 2012

Practical UNIX Manuals: mdoc

A guide to writing man pages. Particularly useful because it describes the best way to do this with modern man tools.

to etext man manual unix writing ... on 04 March 2012