Unsound & Incomplete
  • May 22, 2022

    Yes… No and Other Corners of Coreutils

    Some lesser-known functionality in a well-known collection of utilities.

  • May 15, 2022

    Sort-Of-Numeric Sorting

    Why the sort command's “human numeric” only sort of sorts numerically.

  • April 24, 2022

    Spilling Your Guts to the Shell

    Expose your library's functions as standalone commands, get a REPL for free.

  • April 3, 2022

    Abusing Make to Create Shell Pipelines on Steroids

    Putting Make to unusual uses.

  • March 13, 2022

    The Low-Power Solar Internet

    Computing where—and when—the sun does shine.

  • March 6, 2022

    It's Free and It's Something to Read

    From scarcity to overabundance in two short decades.

  • February 27, 2022

    Revisiting Games of the 90s, Finding Indies Today

    Doom, Prince, and the Genesis.

  • February 20, 2022

    Miracle Programs, Legacy Systems, and Too Many Wordles

    Legacy systems for good and evil; how much Wordle is too much?