I will generally use exiting code to complete a task. I am able to create new code but I am also very good at understanding existing code. With the years, I find that using existing code is very often the best economical (read least effort) way to go. I have also used whole systems of
Interesting article about the birth of vim and “line” editors. I am a vim fan. Besides punch cards in my early programming, I used TECO which was very cryptic but I was able to adapt quickly to ed, ex, vi and finally vim. Some people prefer emacs but it did not pass my first test
There is still much confusion about the term “hacker”. I think this guy has the right view. Hackers are human, they are not absolute black and absolute white hats. They are all grey with different shadesm but he is right about have a Responsible Disclosure Policy. “Not having a Responsible Disclosure Policy or retaliating against
It is also a good tutorial on lynx. I think lynx should come available in any “unix” distribution. The “text only” is a nice break from the “javascript” world we live in nowadays. HTML took over the internet a while back but there are plenty of other protocols that existed and we forgot. Gopher is
I find this interesting; “This website lets you subscribe to RSS feeds for websites that do not support RSS themselves, by using the respective website’s API and then translating that data to RSS feeds.” https://rssbox.herokuapp.com/
With BTFS, you can mount any .torrent file or magnet link and then use it as any read-only directory in your file tree. … https://github.com/johang/btfs