This is an attempt to stop a war. I hope it is not too late and that somehow, magically perhaps, peace will prevail again.

The latecomers into the arena believe that the issue is: “What is the proper byte order in messages?”.

In this article, we provide a holistic view of the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) abstractions by a systematic review of their historical evolution. We discuss some of the key factors that drove the evolution and identify the pitfalls that make them infeasible when building modern applications.

source: https://www.usenix.org

source: queue.acm.org

A curated list of openbsd’s innovations

In short, the argument goes, the ability to write scheduling policies in BPF greatly lowers the difficulty of experimenting with new approaches to scheduling. Both our workloads and the systems they run on have become much more complex since the completely fair scheduler was introduced; experimentation is needed to develop scheduling algorithms that are suited to current systems. The BPF scheduling class allows that experimentation in a safe manner without even needing to reboot the test machine. BPF-written schedulers can also improve performance for niche workloads that may not be worth supporting in the mainline kernel and are much easier to deploy to a large fleet of systems.

source: https://lwn.net

Lawrence Gilman Roberts (December 21, 1937 – December 26, 2018) was an American engineer...

As a program manager and later office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET using packet switching techniques invented by British computer scientist Donald Davies and American Paul Baran.

source: book; where wizards stay up late

Meaningful problems are the most valuable human motivators. Made-up problems are a blight. Ensure you have not quite enough time and people available to tackle the former lest you start inventing the latter.

source: dhh

Think about all the things they’ve told you that you 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑. HTML is NOT the answer!

source: https://hackers.town/@lmorchard/109444911452419131

source: https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/how_big_should_a_programming_language_be.html

* Décongestion de réseaux
* Débuggage de logiciels
* Protection contre les virus
* Protection contre les tentatives d’intrusions
* Restructuration de services
* Partage de connexion Internet sans connexion
* Suppression aléatoire de compte utilisateur
* Protection anti-spoofing basée sur les adresses MAC
* Définition de politique de gestion et de sécurité aléatoire
* Elimination systématique des fichiers de log (journaux)
* Protection contre les DoS et DDoS grâce au système exclusif InUranus®
* Support de IPoT
* Rend vos données importantes accessibles à tout moment et à tout endroit
* Débloque les claviers qui se bl

source: CaptainPatate

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (/ˈlɪklaɪdər/; March 11, 1915 – June 26, 1990), known simply as J. C. R. or “Lick”, was an American psychologist[2] and computer scientist .... He is particularly remembered for being one of the first to foresee modern-style interactive computing and its application to all manner of activities; and also as an Internet pioneer with an early vision of a worldwide computer network long before it was built

source: book; where wizards stay up late

What happens inside the cpu? how things get delayed...

Make something. Participate in something. Engage with someone. All of it might feel as unnatural as strapping on those running shoes after too long of a break, but once you’re back to creating, the energy comes by itself.

this collection of thoughts on software development gathered by grug brain developer

grug brain developer not so smart, but grug brain developer program many long year and learn some things although mostly still confused

Long ago, as the design of the Unix file system was being worked out, the entries . and .. appeared, to make navigation easier....

There is something special in simple code. Here I’m not referring to simplicity to fight complexity or over engineering, but to simplicity per se, auto referential, without goals if not beauty, understandability and elegance.