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  • @lobsters Repeating Ourselves Less with M4 #Programming #OpenSource #Unix

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    Aug 31, 2026
  • @lobsters Interview: Doug McIlroy #Unix #History #Computing

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    Aug 28, 2026
  • @lobsters UNIX V4 workshop at Low Resource Computing #Unix #Tech #OpenSource

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    Aug 27, 2026
  • @hackernews Learning about "The Unix Time-Sharing System" #HackerNews #Tech #Unix

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    Aug 22, 2026
  • @chris_siebenmann I've become more optimistic about my someday future on Wayland #Unix #SystemAdministration #Tech

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    Aug 22, 2026
  • @hackernews LLMs are proof that Unix won #HackerNews #Tech #Unix

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    Aug 21, 2026
  • @lobsters Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix #Unix #History #Tech

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    Aug 11, 2026
  • @lobsters A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy #Unix #Shell #Programming

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    Aug 7, 2026
  • @lobsters Design flaws in issetugid() (2017) #Security #Programming #Unix

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    Jul 28, 2026
  • @chris_siebenmann Argc and argv in early Research Unix #Unix #SystemAdministration #Programming

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    Jul 17, 2026
  • @chris_siebenmann The early Research Unix <code>exec(2)</code> argv size limit #Unix #SystemAdministration #TechHistory

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    Jul 16, 2026
  • @chris_siebenmann How early SunOS did diskless workstations before NFS #Unix #SystemAdministration #Networking

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    Jul 13, 2026
  • @lobsters Where did my segfault go? #Programming #Debugging #Unix

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    Jul 11, 2026
  • @lobsters Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s #RetroTech #Unix #Computing

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    Jul 5, 2026
  • @lobsters Platform Support for GNU Extensions to Basic Regular Expressions #Programming #Unix #OpenSource

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    Jun 30, 2026
  • @lobsters A native graphical shell for SSH #Tech #Unix #SSH

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    Jun 30, 2026
  • @lobsters Regular expressions that work "everywhere" #Programming #Regex #Unix

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    Jun 28, 2026
  • @lobsters all the ways in which terminals' text rendering is bad (2024) #Terminal #Graphics #Unix

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    Jun 16, 2026
  • @hackaday A Brief History of Unix Commands On Windows: CoreUtils (Again) #Unix #Windows #History

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    Jun 16, 2026
  • @hackernews Unix GC Remastered #HackerNews #Tech #Unix

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    Jun 10, 2026
  • @lobsters Moving beyond fork() + exec() #Programming #Tech #Unix

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    Jun 7, 2026
  • @lobsters When su replaced login for becoming another Unix login #Unix #Tech #OpenSource

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    Jun 5, 2026
  • @lobsters Elda: Unix-first system package manager in Rust #Rust #Unix #OpenSource

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    Jun 4, 2026
  • @hackernews When su replaced login for becoming another Unix login #HackerNews #Tech #Unix

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    Jun 4, 2026
  • @chris_siebenmann When <code>su</code> replaced <code>login</code> for becoming another Unix login #Unix #SystemAdministration #Tech

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    Jun 2, 2026
  • @lobsters zsh 5.9.1 released #Shell #Unix #Programming

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    Jun 1, 2026
  • @lobsters Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy' #Tech #Retro #Unix

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    May 28, 2026
  • @chris_siebenmann How our environment still needs the security boundary of Unix logins #SysAdmin #Security #Unix

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    May 23, 2026
  • @lobsters remind(1) -- calendar and alarm program #Unix #Linux #Programming

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    May 23, 2026
  • @chris_siebenmann Unix has been changing, but in places where I don't see it #Unix #SystemAdministration #Tech

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    May 21, 2026
  • @hackernews Curly braces: An evolution of Unix and C #HackerNews #Tech #Unix

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    May 20, 2026
  • @lobsters Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now #HaikuOS #macOS #Unix

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    May 18, 2026
  • @lobsters Misconceptions about the UNIX Philosophy #Unix #Programming #SoftwareDevelopment

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    May 18, 2026
  • @lobsters 9p file server daemon for UNIX-like systems #Unix #Networking #OpenSource

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    May 10, 2026
  • @hackernews Show HN: The Unix Magic poster, annotated (updated) #HackerNews #Tech #Unix

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    Apr 27, 2026
  • @lobsters How Hard Is It To Open a File? #Programming #Security #Unix

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    Apr 24, 2026
  • @lobsters Introducing Glyph Protocol for Terminals #Tech #OpenSource #Unix

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    Apr 19, 2026
  • @hackernews SDF Public Access Unix System #HackerNews #Tech #Unix

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    Apr 18, 2026
  • @lobsters A history of teapots and UNIX #Unix #History #Tech

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    Apr 17, 2026
  • @lobsters ELF & Dynamic Linking #unix

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    Apr 10, 2026
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