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Leslie Lamport

Posted on 2022-05-26 by jcs

Most of you probably know Leslie Lamport as the original author of LaTeX but within the computer science community, he’s mostly known for his work on distributed systems. Like Knuth, Lamport was trained as a mathematician but rather than pursue … Continue reading →

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Hints For Writing Unix Tools

Posted on 2022-04-25 by jcs

Marius Eriksen has a useful post for those not afraid to leave the comfort of the GUI for the command line. It’s long been noted that the ability of Unix to compose tools into pipelines is extraordinarily powerful and makes … Continue reading →

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation

Posted on 2022-04-18 by jcs

Well, not me: Tom Lyon. His post was actually entitled My Summer at Bell Labs and tells the story of his summer internship at the Labs. Regular readers know I’m a sucker for this type of thing so of course … Continue reading →

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Monorepositories

Posted on 2022-04-15 by jcs

One of the controversies—probably not ascending to the level of holy war—in our field is whether we should keep our version controlled source code in several repositories or a single monorepository. The correct answer is, of course, “it depends”. Still, … Continue reading →

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A Linux User Moves to Windows

Posted on 2022-04-09 by jcs

I used to be a (fiery) Windows hater. I’d tell anyone who’d listen what a terrible OS it was and how using it was the sure sign of a luser. I’m no longer that way. It’s not that I’ve become … Continue reading →

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The ACM Backfile

Posted on 2022-04-07 by jcs

Here’s some good news: the ACM has opened the first 50 years of its backfile. That’s all the articles between 1951 and 2000. That may be even better than it seems because recent papers are more apt to be available … Continue reading →

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Another Paean to RSS

Posted on 2022-03-30 by jcs

Radosław Miernik has a post that’s another paean to RSS. He explains what RSS is, how it works, and its advantages to the reader. It’s mostly used to track blog entries but its application is actually broader. Basically any site … Continue reading →

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REPLs and Interactive Programming

Posted on 2022-03-28 by jcs

Mikel Evins has a post from back in December of 2020 that recently popped up in my feed for some reason or another. It’s an interesting post about one of my favorite programming topics: interactive programming. In it, Evins examines … Continue reading →

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LibreWolf

Posted on 2022-03-19 by jcs

I just saw a reference to the new LibreWolf project. It’s a fork of the Firefox browser that focuses on privacy and security. Among other things, they’ve eliminated all telemetry and data gathering and the annoyances that go with it. … Continue reading →

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Good and Bad Tags

Posted on 2022-03-13 by jcs

In response to my post How To Use Tags describing Karl Voit’s perspective on the use of tags, Christian Tietze pointed me to a post by Sascha Fast on The Difference Between Good and Bad Tags. Fast makes a good … Continue reading →

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