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The TTY demystified

Many developers take the terminal for granted. If you’ve ever tried to integrate with the TTY, you’ve seen what a crazy mess it has become.
 
 Linus Åkesson wrote an in-depth article about the TTY, it’s history, and the components involved.

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“The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got”

Andrei Alexandrescu writes in an article to InformIT:

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The Commandments of Good Code according to Zach™

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Zawinski’s Law

Zawinski’s Law from the Jargon File:

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

Possibly inspired by “The Law of Software Development and Envelopment” at MIT:

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“The UNIX Philosophy” by Mike Gancarz

  1. Small is beautiful.
  2. Make each program do one thing well.
  3. Build a prototype as soon as possible.
  4. Choose portability over efficiency.
  5. Store data in flat text files.
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What makes a good engineering culture?

The engineering culture of a company is hugely influential in the kind and quantity of innovation it produces, along with other factors such as quality of code, speed of idea to production, feedback loop, etc.
 
 Here are some great videos of Spotify’s…

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Eric Raymond’s 17 Unix Rules

I was re-reading The Art of Unix Programming and re-discovered some great ideas. Sharing with you:
 
 Rule of Modularity
 
 Developers should build a program out of simple parts connected by well defined interfaces, so problems are local, and parts of the program can be replaced…

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How recursion got into programming: a comedy of errors

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“Worse is Better” by Richard P. Gabriel

Simplicity
 The design must be simple, both in implementation and interface. It is more important for the implementation to be simple than the interface. Simplicity is the most important consideration in a design.
 
 Correctness
 The design must be correct in…

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Doug McIlroy, The Unix Philosophy

(i) Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features. 
 
 (ii) Expect the output of every program to become the input to another, as yet unknown, program. Don’t clutter output with extraneous…

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