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Re: Simple Unix Chat

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Post by cassepipe »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #36
spicybright wrote: post #8

In case you're passing over this because it sounds like click bait (it KIND OF is), this was actually a good read to me. It goes over a utility called "suc" (Simple Unix Chat) that implements server functionalities from Slack, Discord, etc. using a very small codebase. The novel part is it leverages existing unix tools and methodology instead of re-inventing them. - Auth is handled by SSH. - Channels are just a file…

Big emphasis on “kind of”. “Here’s how to make $2 million dollars over night” _reads article_: “have $4 million in the bank…”

I laughed reading your comparison but I don't agree. I clicked waiting for a shallow trick and found that there was indeed a trick, but not a shallow one at all This ability to bring complex capabilities to a chat system by leveraging so much of its ecosystem is truly amazing. Definitely worth the hn front page. And you only need basic shell literacy in order to use it, little more to understand it

Re: Simple Unix Chat

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Post by linschn »

CodeCompost wrote: post #80

5 lines of bash... ... and over 50 years of operating systems development.

Exactly !

Too many software project just ignore the underlying abstractions of the OS they run on. I feel weird with all this virtualization stuff, like we're missing something obvious.

Rob Pike said in 2000 that systems research is irrelevant http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/ and I'd like to think that if we went back to simple tools like this we could make it somewhat relevant again.

Re: Simple Unix Chat

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Post by nonethewiser »

spicybright wrote: post #8

In case you're passing over this because it sounds like click bait (it KIND OF is), this was actually a good read to me. It goes over a utility called "suc" (Simple Unix Chat) that implements server functionalities from Slack, Discord, etc. using a very small codebase. The novel part is it leverages existing unix tools and methodology instead of re-inventing them. - Auth is handled by SSH. - Channels are just a file…

> The novel part is it leverages existing unix tools and methodology instead of re-inventing them.

That pretty much always explains the “X in unfathomably few lines of code.” No faulting the other, he was very upfront about this.

Re: Simple Unix Chat

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Post by boffinAudio » 

    $ rain | wall #.. my favourite thing to do to my colleagues during the end of coding marathons we'd find ourselves in, during the 80's ... on machines that weren't always fortified against the rain .. ;){

Re: Simple Unix Chat

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Post by dexen »

spicybright wrote: post #8

In case you're passing over this because it sounds like click bait (it KIND OF is), this was actually a good read to me. It goes over a utility called "suc" (Simple Unix Chat) that implements server functionalities from Slack, Discord, etc. using a very small codebase. The novel part is it leverages existing unix tools and methodology instead of re-inventing them. - Auth is handled by SSH. - Channels are just a file…

"Append-only files" would be a great fit here: to ensure regular users and bots don't modify others' posts. Sadly this Plan 9 functionality is not ported to Linux yet. That's a permission bit, similar to "read" or "write", but even more specific.

Re: Simple Unix Chat

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Post by Aeolun »

Well, yeah, if I use a bunch of other programs to do a bunch of stuff, and then don’t include those lines in my total I can get pretty far too.
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