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YESTERDAY(1):

BUGS

	It’s hard to use this command without singing.

More on Worse is Better

Yossi Kreinin shares his insights in What “Worse is Better vs The Right Thing” is really about, an essay I strongly agree with. (h/t John Cook)

NB — Keep an eye on John Cook. He delivers.

Write your own kernel

James Malloy will show you how!

isolate: a new tool for my toolbox

isolate is the newest tool in my toolbox. Paranoids are sometimes correct. (Found thanks to LWN.net.)

Two miracle utilities: rlwrap and screen

Two miracle utilities: rlwrap and screen.

rlwrap

Ever wish you had nice command-line editing like BASH but the tool you are using is hopeless? rlwrap is the tool for the job: it is a readline wrapper for any program that reads from stdin. A classic use case is wrapping sqlplus.

screen

Say you have an on-again, off-again shell session you come back to throughout the day. You could keep a shell window open all day. But what if you change machines, say from a laptop to a desktop and back again? screen is the tool for the job: it is a full-screen window manager for terminal sessions. Disconnect from the current session, keep screen running in the background, and reconnect later at your convience. Nothing is lost.