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Yakking is on hold for now
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The Yakking Staff
Writing launcher scripts
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Richard Maw
Text To Speech
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Richard Maw
Coming back to a project
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Daniel Silverstone
Famous bugs
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Lars Wirzenius
So you think you are finished?
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Daniel Silverstone
Cycles in development
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Lars Wirzenius
The only proper git workflow, use nothing else
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Lars Wirzenius
Don't burn that bridge!
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Lars Wirzenius
Processing input
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Daniel Silverstone
Is it dead, or is it just resting?
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Daniel Silverstone
MSG_TRUNC is poorly supported
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Richard Maw
Knowing when to retire from a project
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Lars Wirzenius
Isolation — when it's good to be alone…
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Daniel Silverstone
Programmer productivity boosters
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Lars Wirzenius
Your working environment matters
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Daniel Silverstone
Property Testing in C
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Richard Ipsum
Advent Of Code, 2017
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Daniel Silverstone
Start using your new project early
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Lars Wirzenius
This post intentionally left blank
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Lars Wirzenius
What is Time - CPU time
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Richard Maw
Communicating
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Lars Wirzenius
Ethics in software development
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Lars Wirzenius
Keeping your passwords safe
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Daniel Silverstone
Attracting contributors to your project
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Lars Wirzenius
H0w s3cUre aR3 ur p455w0rdz‽
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Daniel Silverstone
What is Time - leap seconds
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Richard Maw
Psst, can you keep a secret?
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Daniel Silverstone
Time - Rendering
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Richard Maw
Moving your comfort zone
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Daniel Silverstone
Time - Real time
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Richard Maw
Four years of chinwaggery
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Daniel Silverstone
Taking time for yourself
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Daniel Silverstone
Retiring from a project
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Lars Wirzenius
My F/LOSS Activity...
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Daniel Silverstone
Time - Adjustment
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Richard Maw
What is Nix and Why you should try it!
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Richard Ipsum
Time - What are clocks?
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Richard Maw
Open your minds, and your data (formats)
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Daniel Silverstone
What is Time?
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Richard Maw
On the usefulness of a personal journal
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Lars Wirzenius
Piecemeal development
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Richard Maw
Minimal Viable Project
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Daniel Silverstone
A WadC successor in Haskell?
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Jon Dowland
Whiteboarding your project
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Daniel Silverstone
All work and no play makes Daniel a dull boy…
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Daniel Silverstone
Is your process running 3 - UNIX sessions
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Richard Maw
Find your motivation
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Daniel Silverstone
New project? Start with the scaffolding
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Lars Wirzenius
What is this disgusting smell? On software bit rot
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Lars Wirzenius
What I look for in a F/LOSS applicant
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Daniel Silverstone
Please be careful when you test
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Daniel Silverstone
Things I learned at FOSDEM
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Richard Maw
Internationalisation and Other Fruit
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Will Holland
Semantic $THING
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Daniel Silverstone
The XDG base directory standard
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Richard Maw
Give credit where credit is due
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Daniel Silverstone
FHS, the filesystem hierarchy standard
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Lars Wirzenius
Writing for others
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Daniel Silverstone
Giving Presentations
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Daniel Silverstone
Achieving simplicity and greatness
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Lars Wirzenius
Code for fun
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Daniel Silverstone
Get your code out there
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Richard Maw
Software un-design
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Daniel Silverstone
How difficult is it to move a file atomically?
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Richard Maw
Dancing to someone else's tune
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Daniel Silverstone
Atomic file creation with temporary files
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Richard Maw
Atomically clobbering files
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Richard Maw
Dealing with bugs against your project
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Lars Wirzenius
Software freedom business models
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Lars Wirzenius
Be gracious in how you accept
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Daniel Silverstone
Workflow and tools
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Daniel Silverstone
How difficult is it to move a file quickly?
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Richard Maw
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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Daniel Silverstone
How difficult is it to move a sparse file?
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Richard Maw
Which license is the most free?
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Lars Wirzenius
Hacking alone, hacking together
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Daniel Silverstone
How difficult is it to move a file?
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Richard Maw
Keep notes
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Daniel Silverstone
Writing documentation
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Lars Wirzenius
argp, for getopt users
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Richard Maw
Inputting complex characters
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Daniel Silverstone
Parsing command line argument values from C
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Richard Maw
Enforcing your rights
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Daniel Silverstone
Parsing command line arguments from C
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Richard Maw
Estimating how many people use your software
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Lars Wirenius
Event driven programming
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Daniel Silverstone
Command line arguments
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Richard Maw
Getting started with a project
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Daniel Silverstone
When all is sed and done
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Will Holland
Finite Automata
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Daniel Silverstone
State machines in C
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Richard Maw
How open-source can go wrong
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Jonathan Maw
Scripting languages - packaging your modules
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Daniel Silverstone
Practice programs
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Lars Wirzenius
Code modules in scripting languages
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Daniel Silverstone
Dotfiles
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Will Holland
Writing documents with Pandoc
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Richard Maw
Control Structures in Scripting
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Daniel Silverstone
FIFO, fifo, it's off to work we go!
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Richard Maw
Random Numbers in Linux
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Will Holland
Myths programmers believe about file paths
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Richard Maw
Chunks of scripting
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Daniel Silverstone
Simple data structures in scripting languages
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Daniel Silverstone
The secret to writing fast python programs
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Richard Maw
Sort out deployment first
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Lars Wirzenius
Writing programs for composability
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Richard Maw
Starting with scripting
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Daniel Silverstone
D-Bus
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Richard Maw
The value in attending conferences
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Richard Maw
Domain specific languages
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Daniel Silverstone
Networking - DHCP
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Richard Maw
Using the Python profiler
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Lars Wirzenius
Systemd 7 - cron, at and systemd timers
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Richard Maw
Using Open Software on a Closed Platform
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Daniel Silverstone
The Joys of Esoteric Languages
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Will Holland
Nerds of a feather flock(1) together
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Richard Maw
Orchestration frameworks
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Daniel Silverstone
On making releases
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Lars Wirzenius
Wikis
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William Holland
Networking - Namespaces
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Richard Maw
Coding for the lulz
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Daniel Silverstone
Some things people get wrong about Free Software
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Daniel Silverstone
Networking - Addresses and Routes
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Richard Maw
Message Queues
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Daniel Silverstone
From boot to shutdown
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Richard Maw
Networking - Interfaces
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Richard Maw
Expectations of free software developers
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Lars Wirzenius
Bus Factor
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Daniel Silverstone
Networking - Sockets and Ports
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Richard Maw
systemd for the uninformed - networking
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Richard Maw
Project organisation
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Daniel Silverstone
systemd for the uninformed - managing machines
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Richard Maw
Jargon
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Will Holland
A place for everything, and everything in its place
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Daniel Silverstone
Interacting with upstream
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Richard Maw
Why organisations contribute to FOSS projects
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Richard Maw
Gaming on Linux
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Richard Maw
systemd for the uninformed - The Journal
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Richard Maw
Reading Yakking more comfortably
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Daniel Silverstone
Daemons - the not flying out of your nose kind
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Richard Maw
systemd for the uninformed
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Richard Maw
Permissions
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Richard Maw
Storage on Linux
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Daniel Silverstone
Why everything being a file is a good thing
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Richard Maw
Organising your $HOME
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Lars Wirzenius
Everything is a file
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Richard Maw
Uses of SSH
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Richard Maw
Software Updates
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Richard Maw
The role of Linux distributions
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Richard Maw
Virtualised systems
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Daniel Silverstone
Writing shell in any language
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Richard Maw
find, xargs, and parallel: fun toys
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Lars Wirzenius
Principle of least surprise
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Daniel Silverstone
Cool bits of C
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Richard Maw
Give the gift of Freedom this Christmas
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Daniel Silverstone
Avoid generalisations, most of the time
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Lars Wirzenius
Cool features of python you should know about
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Richard Maw
GnuPG (gpg): a brief introduction
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Lars Wirzenius
Integrated Development Environments
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Daniel Silverstone
Tools I use
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Lars Wirzenius
A Mars® a day helps you Work, Hack and Play
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Daniel Silverstone
Resource handling 4 - Java and Python
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Richard Maw
Resource handling 3 - C and C++
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Richard Maw
Resource handling 2 - Garbage Collection
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Daniel Silverstone
Resource handling 1 - General Concepts
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Richard Maw
Software testing
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Daniel Silverstone
Workstations and Hackstations
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Richard Maw
Setting the Bash shell prompt
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Lars Wirzenius
Routing, and network services on Linux
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Daniel Silverstone
The importance of using Library code
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Richard Maw
Editing the shell command line
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Lars Wirzenius
Why you should use a tiling window manager
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Richard Maw
Keeping your configuration safe
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Daniel Silverstone
Advanced uses of GNU screen
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Richard Maw
Looking at the shell history
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Lars Wirzenius
GNU screen the terminal multiplexer
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Richard Maw
Job control in bash
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Richard Maw
Version Numbering
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Daniel Silverstone
Influential works to read
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Lars Wirzenius
Unix Operating System tools
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Richard Maw
My Browser History
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Daniel Silverstone
Be a mensch
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Lars Wirzenius
Shell scripting commands
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Richard Maw
Shell commands for data manipulation
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Richard Maw
moreutils has some more handy utilities
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Lars Wirzenius
Cryptography is not security
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Daniel Silverstone
Dealing with bug reports against your own software
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Lars Wirzenius
Temporary file handling
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Richard Maw
Reporting bugs
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Lars Wirzenius
Informational shell utilities
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Richard Maw
If it's not backed up, you will lose it.
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Daniel Silverstone
Diffs and patches
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Lars Wirzenius
If it's not tested, it doesn't work.
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Daniel Silverstone
File management with common shell commands
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Richard Maw
Naming projects and stuff
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Lars Wirzenius
File systems
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Richard Maw
Transferring files between computers
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Lars Wirzenius
Unix philosophy
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Lars Wirzenius
Contributing to someone else's project
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Lars Wirzenius
Twelve days of coding
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A.N.Author
Coding styles and standards
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Daniel Silverstone
Debugging: finding the bug
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Lars Wirzenius
Whitespace safety in shell scripts
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Richard Maw
Introduction to GDB
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Richard Ipsum
Compiled languages
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Daniel Silverstone
Unix permissions and mode bits
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Lars Wirzenius
Basics of networking
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Daniel Silverstone
Basics of version control systems
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Lars Wirzenius
Shell Variables
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Richard Maw
Using ssh -A for ssh agent forwarding
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Lars Wirzenius
Input and Output redirection
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Jonathan Maw
Regular Expressions and shell globs
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Daniel Silverstone
Scripting
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Richard Maw
Introduction to IRC
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Lars Wirzenius
Basic shell tools
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Daniel Silverstone
Basics of SSH
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Lars Wirzenius
Navigating on-system documentation
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Daniel Silverstone
Basics of the command line
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Daniel Silverstone
Software freedom: an introduction
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Lars Wirzenius
Welcome
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Lars Wirzenius, Daniel Silverstone