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Sploosh! Adventures in Auto-Completion
Adventures in Auto-Completion: Tab-tastic Times with Sploosh! There’s something magical about hitting the Tab key and watching your terminal finish your thoughts like a caffeinated psychic. I knew I wanted Sploosh! (The Shell) to have that magic. What I didn’t expect was the chaos, heartbreak, and weirdly satisfying triumph that...
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Introducing Sploosh!
🐚 Introducing Sploosh! – A C# Shell Project Ever thought to yourself, “You know what my Linux box needs? A shell written in C#”? Me neither — until I did. Welcome to Sploosh!, my somewhat serious, occasionally snarky journey into building a POSIX-compliant shell using C# on Linux. This blog...
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Recipes for the Holidays
Today I came across a collection of recipes on Twitter of all places. I hate twitter, and I don’t want to lose these so I will write them down here and attribute them to their original authors the best I can. Inspector Rebus’s patented recipe for Scotch Eggs (Ian Rankin):...
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Pragmatic Rubber Ducks
In the early 2000’s, back when I still considered myself a young programmer, IBM laid off a large number of engineers in my town and my company scooped up a bunch of those guys. They needed jobs and we needed programmers. A few ex-IBMers ended up in the area where...
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The Illusion of Freedom, or why you should wear your mask
I’ve had the opportunity to engage with people who don’t wear masks to find out why the choose to not do something that seems so simple that, to me, it seems silly to not just do it. I’ve heard about psychological issues, as well as discomfort due to physical issues...