When writing about digital technology, or any topic, is something you do, it takes time to accumulate credibility. Even if you put in the study time up front to know your stuff, building trust takes ...

Unix does not abolish this phenomenon, but does do a good job of containing it. There’s a bedrock of unchanging basics — languages, system calls, and tool invocations — that one can actually keep ...

It’s been nearly 20 years since I first came across the Useless Use of Cat (UUOC) awards. Unix notable and Perl disciple Randall Schwartz had begun handing out these embarrassing awards around 1995 to ...