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Yakking is on hold for now
Posted 6 years and 10 months ago by The Yakking Staff

Writing launcher scripts
Posted 6 years and 11 months ago by Richard Maw

Text To Speech
Posted 7 years ago by Richard Maw

Coming back to a project
Posted 7 years ago by Daniel Silverstone

Famous bugs
Posted 7 years ago by Lars Wirzenius

So you think you are finished?
Posted 7 years ago by Daniel Silverstone

Cycles in development
Posted 7 years ago by Lars Wirzenius

The only proper git workflow, use nothing else
Posted 7 years and 1 month ago by Lars Wirzenius

Don't burn that bridge!
Posted 7 years and 1 month ago by Lars Wirzenius

Processing input
Posted 7 years and 2 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Is it dead, or is it just resting?
Posted 7 years and 2 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

MSG_TRUNC is poorly supported
Posted 7 years and 2 months ago by Richard Maw

Knowing when to retire from a project
Posted 7 years and 2 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Isolation — when it's good to be alone…
Posted 7 years and 3 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Programmer productivity boosters
Posted 7 years and 3 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Your working environment matters
Posted 7 years and 3 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Property Testing in C
Posted 7 years and 3 months ago by Richard Ipsum

Advent Of Code, 2017
Posted 7 years and 4 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Start using your new project early
Posted 7 years and 4 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

This post intentionally left blank
Posted 7 years and 4 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

What is Time - CPU time
Posted 7 years and 4 months ago by Richard Maw

Communicating
Posted 7 years and 5 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Ethics in software development
Posted 7 years and 5 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Keeping your passwords safe
Posted 7 years and 5 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Attracting contributors to your project
Posted 7 years and 5 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

H0w s3cUre aR3 ur p455w0rdz‽
Posted 7 years and 6 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

What is Time - leap seconds
Posted 7 years and 6 months ago by Richard Maw

Psst, can you keep a secret?
Posted 7 years and 6 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Time - Rendering
Posted 7 years and 6 months ago by Richard Maw

Moving your comfort zone
Posted 7 years and 7 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Time - Real time
Posted 7 years and 7 months ago by Richard Maw

Four years of chinwaggery
Posted 7 years and 7 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Taking time for yourself
Posted 7 years and 7 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Retiring from a project
Posted 7 years and 7 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

My F/LOSS Activity...
Posted 7 years and 8 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Time - Adjustment
Posted 7 years and 8 months ago by Richard Maw

What is Nix and Why you should try it!
Posted 7 years and 8 months ago by Richard Ipsum

Time - What are clocks?
Posted 7 years and 8 months ago by Richard Maw

Open your minds, and your data (formats)
Posted 7 years and 9 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

What is Time?
Posted 7 years and 9 months ago by Richard Maw

On the usefulness of a personal journal
Posted 7 years and 9 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Piecemeal development
Posted 7 years and 9 months ago by Richard Maw

Minimal Viable Project
Posted 7 years and 10 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Complications arising from having a complex init
Posted 7 years and 10 months ago by Richard Maw

A WadC successor in Haskell?
Posted 7 years and 10 months ago by Jon Dowland

Whiteboarding your project
Posted 7 years and 10 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Is your process running 4 - Linux-specific approaches
Posted 7 years and 10 months ago by Richard Maw

All work and no play makes Daniel a dull boy…
Posted 7 years and 11 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Is your process running 3 - UNIX sessions
Posted 7 years and 11 months ago by Richard Maw

Find your motivation
Posted 7 years and 11 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Is your process running 2 - Nobody does pidfiles right
Posted 7 years and 11 months ago by Richard Maw

New project? Start with the scaffolding
Posted 8 years ago by Lars Wirzenius

Sweetie! You're gonna be a movie star! - Recording your Terminal
Posted 8 years ago by Daniel Silverstone

Is your process running 1 - Parsing proc and why you shoudn't
Posted 8 years ago by Richard Maw

What is this disgusting smell? On software bit rot
Posted 8 years ago by Lars Wirzenius

What I look for in a F/LOSS applicant
Posted 8 years ago by Daniel Silverstone

Facilitating is no less valuable than contributing
Posted 8 years and 1 month ago by Richard Maw

Please be careful when you test
Posted 8 years and 1 month ago by Daniel Silverstone

Things I learned at FOSDEM
Posted 8 years and 1 month ago by Richard Maw

Internationalisation and Other Fruit
Posted 8 years and 1 month ago by Will Holland

Semantic $THING
Posted 8 years and 2 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

The XDG base directory standard
Posted 8 years and 2 months ago by Richard Maw

Give credit where credit is due
Posted 8 years and 2 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

FHS, the filesystem hierarchy standard
Posted 8 years and 2 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Writing for others
Posted 8 years and 3 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

If you don't tidy your code, you won't be getting any contributors this week!
Posted 8 years and 3 months ago by Richard Maw

Giving Presentations
Posted 8 years and 3 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Achieving simplicity and greatness
Posted 8 years and 3 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Code for fun
Posted 8 years and 3 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Get your code out there
Posted 8 years and 4 months ago by Richard Maw

Software un-design
Posted 8 years and 4 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

How difficult is it to move a file atomically?
Posted 8 years and 4 months ago by Richard Maw

Dancing to someone else's tune
Posted 8 years and 4 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Atomic file creation with temporary files
Posted 8 years and 5 months ago by Richard Maw

Atomically clobbering files
Posted 8 years and 5 months ago by Richard Maw

How difficult is it to preserve extended attributes when moving a file?
Posted 8 years and 5 months ago by Richard Maw

Dealing with bugs against your project
Posted 8 years and 5 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

How difficult is it to preserve extended attributes when moving a file?
Posted 8 years and 6 months ago by Richard Maw

How difficult is it to preserve flags when moving a file?
Posted 8 years and 6 months ago by Richard Maw

Be liberal in what you accept, and strict in what you produce
Posted 8 years and 6 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Software freedom business models
Posted 8 years and 6 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Be gracious in how you accept
Posted 8 years and 7 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

How difficult is it to preserve metadata when moving a file?
Posted 8 years and 7 months ago by Richard Maw

Workflow and tools
Posted 8 years and 7 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

How difficult is it to move a file quickly?
Posted 8 years and 7 months ago by Richard Maw

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Posted 8 years and 7 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

How difficult is it to move a sparse file?
Posted 8 years and 8 months ago by Richard Maw

Which license is the most free?
Posted 8 years and 8 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Hacking alone, hacking together
Posted 8 years and 8 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

How difficult is it to move a file?
Posted 8 years and 8 months ago by Richard Maw

Keep notes
Posted 8 years and 9 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Writing documentation
Posted 8 years and 9 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

argp, for getopt users
Posted 8 years and 9 months ago by Richard Maw

Inputting complex characters
Posted 8 years and 9 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Parsing command line argument values from C
Posted 8 years and 10 months ago by Richard Maw

Enforcing your rights
Posted 8 years and 10 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Parsing command line arguments from C
Posted 8 years and 10 months ago by Richard Maw

Estimating how many people use your software
Posted 8 years and 10 months ago by Lars Wirenius

Event driven programming
Posted 8 years and 10 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Command line arguments
Posted 8 years and 11 months ago by Richard Maw

Getting started with a project
Posted 8 years and 11 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

When all is sed and done
Posted 8 years and 11 months ago by Will Holland

Finite Automata
Posted 8 years and 11 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

State machines in C
Posted 9 years ago by Richard Maw

How open-source can go wrong
Posted 9 years ago by Jonathan Maw

Scripting languages - packaging your modules
Posted 9 years ago by Daniel Silverstone

Practice programs
Posted 9 years ago by Lars Wirzenius

I'd tell you the joke about UDP, but you might not get it.
Posted 9 years ago by Richard Maw

Code modules in scripting languages
Posted 9 years and 1 month ago by Daniel Silverstone

Dotfiles
Posted 9 years and 1 month ago by Will Holland

Writing documents with Pandoc
Posted 9 years and 1 month ago by Richard Maw

Control Structures in Scripting
Posted 9 years and 1 month ago by Daniel Silverstone

FIFO, fifo, it's off to work we go!
Posted 9 years and 2 months ago by Richard Maw

Random Numbers in Linux
Posted 9 years and 2 months ago by Will Holland

Myths programmers believe about file paths
Posted 9 years and 2 months ago by Richard Maw

Chunks of scripting
Posted 9 years and 2 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Simple data structures in scripting languages
Posted 9 years and 3 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

The secret to writing fast python programs
Posted 9 years and 3 months ago by Richard Maw

Sort out deployment first
Posted 9 years and 3 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Writing programs for composability
Posted 9 years and 3 months ago by Richard Maw

Starting with scripting
Posted 9 years and 3 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

D-Bus
Posted 9 years and 4 months ago by Richard Maw

The value in attending conferences
Posted 9 years and 4 months ago by Richard Maw

Domain specific languages
Posted 9 years and 4 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Networking - DHCP
Posted 9 years and 4 months ago by Richard Maw

Using the Python profiler
Posted 9 years and 5 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Systemd 7 - cron, at and systemd timers
Posted 9 years and 5 months ago by Richard Maw

Using Open Software on a Closed Platform
Posted 9 years and 5 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

The Joys of Esoteric Languages
Posted 9 years and 5 months ago by Will Holland

Nerds of a feather flock(1) together
Posted 9 years and 6 months ago by Richard Maw

Orchestration frameworks
Posted 9 years and 6 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

On making releases
Posted 9 years and 6 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Wikis
Posted 9 years and 6 months ago by William Holland

Networking - Namespaces
Posted 9 years and 7 months ago by Richard Maw

Coding for the lulz
Posted 9 years and 7 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Some things people get wrong about Free Software
Posted 9 years and 7 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Networking - Addresses and Routes
Posted 9 years and 7 months ago by Richard Maw

Message Queues
Posted 9 years and 7 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

From boot to shutdown
Posted 9 years and 8 months ago by Richard Maw

Networking - Interfaces
Posted 9 years and 8 months ago by Richard Maw

Expectations of free software developers
Posted 9 years and 8 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Bus Factor
Posted 9 years and 8 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Networking - Sockets and Ports
Posted 9 years and 9 months ago by Richard Maw

systemd for the uninformed - networking
Posted 9 years and 9 months ago by Richard Maw

Project organisation
Posted 9 years and 9 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

systemd for the uninformed - managing machines
Posted 9 years and 9 months ago by Richard Maw

Jargon
Posted 9 years and 10 months ago by Will Holland

A place for everything, and everything in its place
Posted 9 years and 10 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

systemd for the uninformed - session and seat management with logind
Posted 9 years and 10 months ago by Richard Maw

Interacting with upstream
Posted 9 years and 10 months ago by Richard Maw

Why organisations contribute to FOSS projects
Posted 9 years and 10 months ago by Richard Maw

Gaming on Linux
Posted 9 years and 11 months ago by Richard Maw

systemd for the uninformed - The Journal
Posted 9 years and 11 months ago by Richard Maw

Reading Yakking more comfortably
Posted 9 years and 11 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

systemd for the uninformed - udev device management
Posted 9 years and 11 months ago by Richard Maw

Daemons - the not flying out of your nose kind
Posted 10 years ago by Richard Maw

systemd for the uninformed
Posted 10 years ago by Richard Maw

Permissions
Posted 10 years ago by Richard Maw

Storage on Linux
Posted 10 years ago by Daniel Silverstone

Why everything being a file is a good thing
Posted 10 years ago by Richard Maw

Organising your $HOME
Posted 10 years and 1 month ago by Lars Wirzenius

Everything is a file
Posted 10 years and 1 month ago by Richard Maw

Uses of SSH
Posted 10 years and 1 month ago by Richard Maw

Software Updates
Posted 10 years and 1 month ago by Richard Maw

The role of Linux distributions
Posted 10 years and 2 months ago by Richard Maw

Virtualised systems
Posted 10 years and 2 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Writing shell in any language
Posted 10 years and 2 months ago by Richard Maw

find, xargs, and parallel: fun toys
Posted 10 years and 2 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Principle of least surprise
Posted 10 years and 3 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Cool bits of C
Posted 10 years and 3 months ago by Richard Maw

Give the gift of Freedom this Christmas
Posted 10 years and 3 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Avoid generalisations, most of the time
Posted 10 years and 3 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Cool features of python you should know about
Posted 10 years and 3 months ago by Richard Maw

GnuPG (gpg): a brief introduction
Posted 10 years and 3 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Integrated Development Environments
Posted 10 years and 4 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Tools I use
Posted 10 years and 4 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

A Mars® a day helps you Work, Hack and Play
Posted 10 years and 4 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Resource handling 4 - Java and Python
Posted 10 years and 4 months ago by Richard Maw

Resource handling 3 - C and C++
Posted 10 years and 5 months ago by Richard Maw

Resource handling 2 - Garbage Collection
Posted 10 years and 5 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Resource handling 1 - General Concepts
Posted 10 years and 5 months ago by Richard Maw

Software testing
Posted 10 years and 5 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Workstations and Hackstations
Posted 10 years and 6 months ago by Richard Maw

Setting the Bash shell prompt
Posted 10 years and 6 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Routing, and network services on Linux
Posted 10 years and 6 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

The importance of using Library code
Posted 10 years and 6 months ago by Richard Maw

Editing the shell command line
Posted 10 years and 7 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Why you should use a tiling window manager
Posted 10 years and 7 months ago by Richard Maw

Keeping your configuration safe
Posted 10 years and 7 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Advanced uses of GNU screen
Posted 10 years and 7 months ago by Richard Maw

Looking at the shell history
Posted 10 years and 7 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

GNU screen the terminal multiplexer
Posted 10 years and 8 months ago by Richard Maw

Plagiarise Plagiarise Plagiarise! Only be sure always to call it please 'research'
Posted 10 years and 8 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Job control in bash
Posted 10 years and 8 months ago by Richard Maw

Version Numbering
Posted 10 years and 8 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Influential works to read
Posted 10 years and 9 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Unix Operating System tools
Posted 10 years and 9 months ago by Richard Maw

My Browser History
Posted 10 years and 9 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Be a mensch
Posted 10 years and 9 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Shell scripting commands
Posted 10 years and 10 months ago by Richard Maw

Shell commands for data manipulation
Posted 10 years and 10 months ago by Richard Maw

moreutils has some more handy utilities
Posted 10 years and 10 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Cryptography is not security
Posted 10 years and 10 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Dealing with bug reports against your own software
Posted 10 years and 10 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

If you have no plan to maintain it, it will cease working.
Posted 10 years and 11 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Temporary file handling
Posted 10 years and 11 months ago by Richard Maw

If you wouldn't want to use it yourself, why would anyone else?
Posted 10 years and 11 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Reporting bugs
Posted 10 years and 11 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

If you are not measuring it, you don't know how well it's doing
Posted 11 years ago by Daniel Silverstone

Informational shell utilities
Posted 11 years ago by Richard Maw

If it's not backed up, you will lose it.
Posted 11 years ago by Daniel Silverstone

Diffs and patches
Posted 11 years ago by Lars Wirzenius

If it's not tested, it doesn't work.
Posted 11 years ago by Daniel Silverstone

File management with common shell commands
Posted 11 years and 1 month ago by Richard Maw

If you haven't pushed it to revision control, it doesn't exist
Posted 11 years and 1 month ago by Daniel Silverstone

Naming projects and stuff
Posted 11 years and 1 month ago by Lars Wirzenius

If you don't have a plan, you will wander in the reeds.
Posted 11 years and 1 month ago by Daniel Silverstone

File systems
Posted 11 years and 2 months ago by Richard Maw

Transferring files between computers
Posted 11 years and 2 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

If you don't know why you're doing it, you shouldn't be doing it.
Posted 11 years and 2 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Unix philosophy
Posted 11 years and 2 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Contributing to someone else's project
Posted 11 years and 3 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Twelve days of coding
Posted 11 years and 3 months ago by A.N.Author

Coding styles and standards
Posted 11 years and 3 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Debugging: finding the bug
Posted 11 years and 3 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Whitespace safety in shell scripts
Posted 11 years and 3 months ago by Richard Maw

Introduction to GDB
Posted 11 years and 4 months ago by Richard Ipsum

Compiled languages
Posted 11 years and 4 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Unix permissions and mode bits
Posted 11 years and 4 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Basics of networking
Posted 11 years and 4 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Basics of version control systems
Posted 11 years and 5 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Shell Variables
Posted 11 years and 5 months ago by Richard Maw

Using ssh -A for ssh agent forwarding
Posted 11 years and 5 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Input and Output redirection
Posted 11 years and 5 months ago by Jonathan Maw

Regular Expressions and shell globs
Posted 11 years and 6 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Scripting
Posted 11 years and 6 months ago by Richard Maw

Introduction to IRC
Posted 11 years and 6 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Basic shell tools
Posted 11 years and 6 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Basics of SSH
Posted 11 years and 6 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Navigating on-system documentation
Posted 11 years and 7 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Basics of the command line
Posted 11 years and 7 months ago by Daniel Silverstone

Software freedom: an introduction
Posted 11 years and 7 months ago by Lars Wirzenius

Welcome
Posted 11 years and 7 months ago by Lars Wirzenius, Daniel Silverstone