The Meditative Coder

 I'm not crazy after all! Well, ok, I guess figuring out a difference in "sed" between gnu and bsd is not a sign of sanity. (T...

 The Unix shell usually does a good job of doing what you expect it to do. Writing shell scripts is usually pretty straight-forward. Yes, so...

Ok, I grudgingly admit that I like Grammarly. My complaints still hold:  [ UPDATE: these are all fixed now ] Mac users are second-class citi...

 Sorry, I had to say it. Software really does suck. We just installed a new CentOS, and I wanted to do some apache work. I don't do that...

 The "strace" tool is powerful and very useful. Recently a user of our software sent us an strace output that included a packet se...

UPDATE 2 (17-Nov-2021): Grammarly has released an update, and my first impression is THANK GOODNESS ! They either listened to me, or more l...

As my previous post indicates, I've done some Perl noodling this past week. (I can't believe that was my first Perl post on this bl...

So, I've been crawling through a debug log file that is 195 million lines long. I've been using a lot of "grep | wc" to co...

I wanted to direct a colleague to a tutorial on Multicast that explained about IGMP Snooping and the IGMP Query function. But I couldn't...

I normally don't do product or vendor shilling on this blog. But I've always liked Peter Lankford at STAC , and I think he did a goo...

How is it that I haven't sung the praises of Wireshark in this blog? It's one of my favorite tools of all time! I can't get over...

Vi Hart posted an important video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhRQxk9QA-o Please watch it. Full report:   https://ethics.harvard....

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/europe/100000007072121/queen-address.html (You have to click the little "speaker" in the low...

Max Brooks PSA about Corona Virus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DthdYTLiqcI

Sorry, no computer software today. I see that Ivan Maximov, one of my favorite animators, has finally released his latest work: " ...