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The new #FreeBSDJournal is out. Includes my We Get Letters column, where I directly and unreservedly address improving software quality. Promise. Cross my heart and hope to pie.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/improving-software-quality/
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The new #FreeBSDJournal is out. Includes my We Get Letters column, where I directly and unreservedly address improving software quality. Promise. Cross my heart and hope to pie.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/improving-software-quality/
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Got my #freebsdjournal column proofed and ready.
It includes the phrase "the midden of my wisdom." :flan_posh:
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Got my #freebsdjournal column proofed and ready.
It includes the phrase "the midden of my wisdom." :flan_posh:
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Did the #FreeBSDJournal editorial board warn the incoming editor-in-chief about my column?
'I wouldn't say they warned me, but they used phrases such as "It's um, well, yeah. You'll see." '
Find out why. https://mwl.io/static/books/dear-abyss.html
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Did the #FreeBSDJournal editorial board warn the incoming editor-in-chief about my column?
'I wouldn't say they warned me, but they used phrases such as "It's um, well, yeah. You'll see." '
Find out why. https://mwl.io/static/books/dear-abyss.html
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Read some Bargepole to aim the literary compass, now to write my #FreeBSDJournal column.
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Read some Bargepole to aim the literary compass, now to write my #FreeBSDJournal column.
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The new #FreeBSDJournal is out! Includes my Letters column, where someone calls out my bullshit. Or tries to.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/
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The new #FreeBSDJournal is out! Includes my Letters column, where someone calls out my bullshit. Or tries to.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/
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"Dragons fill vital ecological space. They’re warnings. They’re limits. People call them evil. But when you have a dragon, people try to slay it. We still remember Saint George slaying an innocent dragon to save a princess. We remember because royalty keeps spreading the tale in the hope that we’ll rescue them from the next dragon, all while neglecting to remind us that the king thought that letting dragons devour people was regrettable but acceptable until the his daughter landed on the menu."
That's a rough cut of my next #FreeBSDJournal column done...
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"Dragons fill vital ecological space. They’re warnings. They’re limits. People call them evil. But when you have a dragon, people try to slay it. We still remember Saint George slaying an innocent dragon to save a princess. We remember because royalty keeps spreading the tale in the hope that we’ll rescue them from the next dragon, all while neglecting to remind us that the king thought that letting dragons devour people was regrettable but acceptable until the his daughter landed on the menu."
That's a rough cut of my next #FreeBSDJournal column done...
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"Clearly, the problem is Colin."
Working on this month's #FreeBSDJournal Letters column. No idea why they publish this daft thing.
You can grab a collection of these columns in "Dear Abyss."
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"Clearly, the problem is Colin."
Working on this month's #FreeBSDJournal Letters column. No idea why they publish this daft thing.
You can grab a collection of these columns in "Dear Abyss."
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The latest #FreeBSDJournal has a new Letters column from me, featuring--at long last--Rule of System Administration #1.
It will not surprise regular readers.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/embedded-2/we-get-letters-5/
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The latest #FreeBSDJournal has a new Letters column from me, featuring--at long last--Rule of System Administration #1.
It will not surprise regular readers.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/embedded-2/we-get-letters-5/
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Working on next month's #FreeBSDJournal column.
'Don’t get me started on your car. Requiring everyone in the United States to borrow, purchase, or otherwise “acquire” a multi-ton kinetic energy weapon was bad enough, but add in separate computers for the brakes and the accelerator and the climate control and congratulations! You’ve built a Rolling Debacle. The only question is who gets debacled, you or bystanders. I would say “innocent bystanders” but nowadays everybody uses a computer so nobody is innocent.'
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Working on next month's #FreeBSDJournal column.
'Don’t get me started on your car. Requiring everyone in the United States to borrow, purchase, or otherwise “acquire” a multi-ton kinetic energy weapon was bad enough, but add in separate computers for the brakes and the accelerator and the climate control and congratulations! You’ve built a Rolling Debacle. The only question is who gets debacled, you or bystanders. I would say “innocent bystanders” but nowadays everybody uses a computer so nobody is innocent.'
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Working on my next #freebsdjournal column.
"Each disaster has unique qualities that might make you choose it over the alternative."
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Working on my next #freebsdjournal column.
"Each disaster has unique qualities that might make you choose it over the alternative."
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My new #freebsdjournal column escaped while I wasn't looking!
"I bet you're young enough to remember hope."
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/downstreams/
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My new #freebsdjournal column escaped while I wasn't looking!
"I bet you're young enough to remember hope."
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/downstreams/
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One of the rules of writing editorial nonfiction is to not say anything in a column that you wouldn't say to the person's face, so I should probably find @lattera and quote my next #freebsdjournal Letters column, on downstreams:
"Keep in mind that I was only trying to integrate contributed software. I wasn’t doing anything like, say, those HardenedBSD maniacs trying to change core kernel code while simultaneously maintaining synchronization with FreeBSD itself. On the other hand, HardenedBSD has the “advantage” of using git rather than CVS. (Simplifying forks might be git’s greatest crime, but anyway.)"
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One of the rules of writing editorial nonfiction is to not say anything in a column that you wouldn't say to the person's face, so I should probably find @lattera and quote my next #freebsdjournal Letters column, on downstreams:
"Keep in mind that I was only trying to integrate contributed software. I wasn’t doing anything like, say, those HardenedBSD maniacs trying to change core kernel code while simultaneously maintaining synchronization with FreeBSD itself. On the other hand, HardenedBSD has the “advantage” of using git rather than CVS. (Simplifying forks might be git’s greatest crime, but anyway.)"
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#writing my next #freebsdjournal column
"Source code makes you ambitious. Source code makes you think you can do anything. The world is stuffed with people who discovered they could read the source code and suddenly thought they could do anything, like innovate Internet payments or reinvent automobile drivetrains or build actual 1950s-style rocket ships or reconstruct government without understanding anything about any of these. They sometimes make fortunes on the way, but inevitably fail in vituperious disgrace and vitriolated shame, because being smart enough to read source code has absolutely nothing to do with competence or being a worthy human being."
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#writing my next #freebsdjournal column
"Source code makes you ambitious. Source code makes you think you can do anything. The world is stuffed with people who discovered they could read the source code and suddenly thought they could do anything, like innovate Internet payments or reinvent automobile drivetrains or build actual 1950s-style rocket ships or reconstruct government without understanding anything about any of these. They sometimes make fortunes on the way, but inevitably fail in vituperious disgrace and vitriolated shame, because being smart enough to read source code has absolutely nothing to do with competence or being a worthy human being."
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Very interesting article about the creation of #wifibox on #FreeBSD https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/virtualization-2/
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recorded tomorrow's #60SecondsOfWIP with a snippet of this month's #FreeBSDJournal Letters column.
Catch the old episodes at https://mwl.io/about/worlds-lamest-podcast or your favorite podcast aggregator. Except the aggregators that were a pain to work with, because screw them, I'm giving them free low-quality content.
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recorded tomorrow's #60SecondsOfWIP with a snippet of this month's #FreeBSDJournal Letters column.
Catch the old episodes at https://mwl.io/about/worlds-lamest-podcast or your favorite podcast aggregator. Except the aggregators that were a pain to work with, because screw them, I'm giving them free low-quality content.
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Working on this month's #FreeBSDJournal Letters column.
"Systems administration is a disorder that benefits civilization, meaning that society has no interest in alleviating it or even developing a vaccine."
