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Welcome! This is an instruction booklet that shows you how to build a text editor in C. The text editor is antirez’s kilo, with some changes. It’s about 1000 lines of C in a single file with no dependencies, and it implements all the basic features you…
6 April 2017Hacker News
5 April 2017Planet KDE
I used to use the IRC bouncer at bnc.kde.org to keep a constant presence for my IRC nickname, but an IRC bouncer has several limitations that always annoyed me. Then I discovered that Matrix has a built-in IRC bridge, and I’ve been using it ever since,…
5 April 2017LWN.net
In the only storage-only LSFMM 2017 session that LWN was able to attend—it was scheduled opposite the one-and-only filesystem and memory management combined session—Lee Duncan explored some of the questions and problems he sees in booting from remote…
5 April 2017Planet Ubuntu
Aaron alerts me to the recent initiative of sharing one’s favourite podcasts with the hashtag #trypod. That sounds like fun, speaking as a podcast listener and performer. So, here’s the stuff I listen to, at the moment (it is April 2017). THE DRESDEN FILES…
3 April 2017LWN.net
We are getting closer to being able to do unprivileged mounts inside containers, but there are still some pieces that do not work well in that scenario. In particular, the user IDs (and group IDs) that are embedded into filesystem images are problematic…
3 April 2017LWN.net
The system call tries to do too many things, Miklos Szeredi said at the start of a filesystem-only discussion at LSFMM 2017. He has been interested in cleaning that up for a long time. So he wanted to discuss some ideas he had for a new interface to…
2 April 2017Planet Debian
My Raspberry Pi hifi component setup lacked a way to cleanly shutdown the system without ssh. I wished the Raspberry Pi had a button so I can tell it to shutdown. It turns out many wishes can come true when one has a GPIO board. This is the…
1 April 2017Planet Debian
This post was an April Fools' Day joke. The space agencies running the International Space Station (ISS) reported that a laptop accidentally threw to space as waste in 2013 from the International State Station may have connected with a parallel…
1 April 2017Planet Mozilla
I have seen clever, thoughtful and hardworking people trying to be right about the CSS is not broken and CSS is broken. PopCorn. I will not attempt to be right on anything in this post. I'm just sharing a feeling. Let me steal the image from this…
30 March 2017