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The Hardest Tarball?

A Decade of Kill Bugs

groff/troff macros: ms, mm, me or mom

The lost malloc()

F/OSS Comics #13: BSD Unix, Part 3 – The Beginning of BSD Unix

What is malloc doing, anyway?

Kitty 0.50

86open

Pigshell: Unix the Web

Novellas with Groff

What the heck is /pkg?

zshrs, a pure rust zsh superset UNIX shell with a JIT

Brut, the Brutal Router for Unix Tools

An Evening with Berferd: In Which a Cracker is Lured, Endured, and Studied (1992)

Extending concurrent separation logic to the hardware level to verify the xv6 OS kernel on RISC-V with AI agents

Moreutils: The utilities package every Unix/Linux/Mac OS developer should know

Apple/macOS removed from official Unix registry

The Unix Philosophy in Go: An example working with LLMs.

PDP-11 emulator running Unix V6 on a MCU

Unix File and Directory Permissions and Modes (2018)

An actively maintained and updated Motif fork actually exists

Coreutils - rejected feature requests

MotifCentral - All Things Motif/Xt/Xlib

Pointing at the error: compiler-style diagnostics in uutils coreutils

Software sandboxing: The basics (2025)

Some (mostly historical) issues with the Unix load average

How can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?

tobi: keep commands running in detachable sessions across your devices

Agent State in the Tmux Status Line

sudo and OpenDoas timestamp files (2020)

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