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cp /usr/bin/grep ack Find the needles ./ack needle haystack Find the silver needles ./ack silver.*needle Find all needles except lead ones ./ack '[^^][^e.][^a.][^d.] needle' haysta…

From August of this year, but still nice to see this again. I don't even need to read the blog post. The title says it all. djb wrote about this in the docs for qmail many years ag…

The state of programmers trying to avoid coding in the language their system is coded in. C.

The article focuses on a couple of lawyers. Lawyers are classic parasites. They need to find money-making entities to act as "hosts". When the economy is sinking, there are less he…

One option is Common Lisp. It has a raw sockets library. The lib ("module") comes with a document that has some examples, including how to make HTTP requests.

Lisp student here. When learning, I like deconstructing small standalone code samples that are actually useful. Here's the sample I'm looking for in Lisp or Scheme: a youtube downl…