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The importance of command line interfaces (CLI) | Chipnetics
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Simplicity and collaboration | Dave Cheney
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| | [AI summary] This post is a transcript of a keynote speech discussing how the Go programming language prioritizes simplicity and collaboration in its design, contrasting it with the complexity of other languages.
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Unix as a tool forge
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| | Wikipedia1 cites a few different sources on what "Unix Philosophy" is. Peter Salus summarizes it as: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. That second bullet point is my favorite: making composable programs rather than monolithic systems. In this way, Unix is designed to be a forge for easily building new tools. The first rule-writing programs that do one thing well-is largely a means...
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Deconstructing the "Unix philosophy"
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| | Composing smaller pieces into a great whole is a powerful design technique.
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Surfing the WSL Wave - dominickm.com
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| With Summer coming to a close I decided to take another surf on the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) wave and in short was not disappointed. Technically there are two flavors of WSL, WSL 1 and WSL 2. WSL 1 is a translation layer that takes Linux system calls and converts them into Windows ones. [...]