been reading more papers
notes by jargony outlines
no unnecessary words
if can express
few words
you get it
get it?
concise, practical
flowy, comprehensible
jargon is fun
in org-roam
links when depth
more speed
good
all left
tech haikus
challenge
someday
until then
I’ve always maintained a philosophical appetite for the tooling that I use.
One of the core tenets of the Unix Philosophy1 is that everything is a file…
Plan92 has caught my eye due to its more homogenous design than the usual unix you’re used to.
The footnoted-paper (~pre-mature book) is somewhat unhinged and doesn’t shy away from taking a jab at the Unix ecosystem and design.
Apart from the several points the author makes, what stands out the most for me is the idea of everything truly being a file: in hindsight, Unix only realizes a fraction of the principle.
I’ve started spending some time per day without the usual modern software engineering tooling (LLMs, the Internet, etc) to explicitly maintain my cyber-deduction skills (in the context of Unix-based systems (BSDs, Linux, yet to explore Plan9), mostly because they power the majority of the global compute infrastructure).
It’s fun: init your journey with a man man (I’m an info info guy myself) and be extremely skeptical of your usual modus operandi, ditching all assumptions and tumbling down the rabbit hole.
