Tag: unix

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• Multiline editing with sed

  October 27th 2026 (week 44 of 2026)

  sed(1) is notorious for not allowing patterns containing the newline character, but there are ways to work around this limitation.

• Speed test using iperf

  October 19th 2026 (week 43 of 2026)

  How speedy is the connection to your server?

• How to read a sigmask of a process on Linux

  July 8th 2026 (week 28 of 2026)

  You can get the signal mask of a running process from the /proc filesystem, but how do you interpret it?

• Choosing a hash function for 2030 and beyond: SHA-2 vs SHA-3 vs BLAKE3

  July 5th 2026 (week 27 of 2026)

  An interesting blog post about SHA-256, SHA-512, and BLAKE3.

• Linux distribution timeline (1992-2010)

  June 22nd 2026 (week 26 of 2026)

  The genealogical tree of various Linux distributions.

• In defense of swap

  January 13th 2026 (week 3 of 2026)

  "In defense of swap: common misconceptions" is an article by Chris Down, a Linux kernel developer at Meta.

• builds.sr.ht image maintenance

  December 17th 2025 (week 51 of 2025)

  Documentation is available, and the process itself is not difficult; if you want to update an image you just have to follow instructions.

• run0 devoured my disk!

  December 13th 2025 (week 50 of 2025)

  How I got slapped with a "No space left on device" when trying to run with elevated privileges, and what I did about it.

• Viua VM on OpenBSD 7.8

  October 28th 2025 (week 44 of 2025)

  OpenBSD 7.8 has recently been released, and includes LLVM updated to version 21. This made a port of Viua VM possible.