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I'm guessing that the OP didn't know about the Ars article when they posted. Perhaps "serendipitously" would have been a better word?

Cordyceps, huh? An interesting choice! And ironically the subject of an article on Ars Technica that just dropped... https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/parasitic-zombie-fun...…

I think the Internet is running out of names for things because so expected something related to this! https://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/librrd.en.html Still, it looks pretty neat…

Same here... back in 2011 or so. We needed something much more performant than WURFL. My efforts eventually became a feature/product at Akamai known as "Edge Device Characterizatio…

I've had great success with a parser-generator known as "Marpa" [1]. One of the things I particularly liked about it is how simple it made to emit accurate and useful error message…

Buy here or read online for free. This is the official website of the book: http://modernperlbooks.com/ (hint - it's worth buying :)

What's he do, nibble your bum?

I agree, as I've missed a dose here and there over the years and experienced the intense paresthesia and headaches and nausea from withdrawal. Background: I've lived my entire adul…

It's a pretty impressive process. The cable is indeed hoisted up, after being "hooked" by a device dragging along the ocean floor. I think I saw a video of this once, here's one on…

Smalltalk is definitely underrated. It can be an extremely productive language, and has built-in capabilities you won't find in any "mainstream" language that make coding in it ver…

This depends on your definition of "underrated" but I'd definitely throw Perl 5 into the ring here. Edit: Specifically, Perl 5 + CPAN is what makes it so much better than many peop…

I hope that at least Cloudera will profit and thrive. Having used plain Apache components, then Hortonworks, then Cloudera... They are far and away the superior distribution, regar…

While Perl 6 was designed with English method and object names, it's a fully-Unicode-enabled language, with the ability for identifiers and even operators to be defined in any lang…

I can't compare to the tools you mentioned since I haven't done much PHP in the last 10 years, but for Perl, I would strongly recommend you check out the following (Most are from t…

Reminds me of a friend whose band cut an album back before anybody could do it, and got a local music chain to put them on the shelves. A month later, he bought a single copy from …

I imagine this is pronounced like the word "stupid". I'm not saying it is, but it's an amusing thought :)

I haven't been there for almost two years, even then, I'm sure most engineers wouldn't have stood silent if an OSS license was being violated... unless their managers made them afr…

Indeed, I think we're about to see some very interesting times in the next year or so, with regard to GUI/Windowing systems in the Linux world. Wayland has been a long time coming,…

Sometimes that's the best perspective to have. And in this case, I believe it is. If left up to us engineers/hackers/nerds, we would continue to stubbornly work on or with one syst…

AFAIK, Packages are available in Arch and the latest releases of Fedora may have Wayland packages available, but it's not (yet) the default window system for either distro. Fedora …

chuckles This isn't a SSL cert screw-up, but certainly a silly misconfiguration. They should certainly have known better than to let that happen. To be fair... when I worked there,…

Then my sympathies to you . But people who've been in this industry far longer than I have assured me - it's pretty damn normal. Oh, and people in other industries have told me it'…

No apologies needed, but thanks! I learned some valuable lessons.