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Programming languages and systems (are the same thing)

• Write code, not configuration
• Deploying a distributed system? A type system helps a lot
• For fast protocols, be backwards-compatible in the client, not on the wire
• Concurrency based on shift/reset and object-oriented effect handlers
• Write libraries instead of services, where possible

Those which relate to Linux and operating systems

• Beyond process supervisors
• timerfd is a specialized kind of eventfd
• Miscellaneous Linux ideas

"Software engineering"

• You need to be able to run your system
• Your users are a test suite

Some tips on tools I use, or don't use

• Terminals are weird
• Docker Considered Harmful
• The Excellence of libvirt
• Simple, Fast, Easy Parallelism in Shell Pipelines
• Plain text configuration of GNOME

Life

• Finding the optimal tradeoff between career and art
• This chili recipe

Those included in this classification

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• My old blog, with some posts already linked above, and some posts I care about less