Stories by network-guy

I am no longer chairing defenses where students use generative AI

In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome

mkcd: The missing shell shortcut

Proxy auto-config

Vine-like Systems and Malleability

Btrfs read-write on FreeBSD: It is possible and works well (2024)

Satanic Text Generator

Interview with Jim Sachs (Defender of the Crown, Marine Aquarium)

California vanity license plate applications with reasons for rejection (2020)

pretty-php: The opinionated PHP code formatter

Show HN: lsblk.lua: lsblk(8) for FreeBSD using Lua in base system

montasaurus/result: A simple Rust-like Result type for Python 3

argp: GNU-style command line argument parser for Go

cloudpathlib: Python pathlib-style classes for cloud storage like S3 and Azure

Erhu

Learning to Love Dandelions (2021)

universal_pathlib: Python pathlib API extended to use fsspec back ends (like S3)

Slacking, career goals/development, and mgmt pressure in corporate analytics

My Colony Memoir (2005; about 1988 3D Mac game)

I am pleased to report that AI is now a better poet than William McGonagall

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