Thursday, September 5, 2024
gmane NNTP is back online!
I was a big gmane.org NNTP user and was distraught when it stopped working. Turns out it just got converted to gmane.io for reasons linked above. I've subscribed to my lists again, very exciting.
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Microsoft's UNIX System history
I was a big user of this back in the day, sad to see it die on the vine. I suppose the Linux subsystem has picked up most of the slack but the old system was pretty slick back in the day.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Adding default safety to C++
Many interesting options for making C++ code safer without having to change the code! I'm not maintaining any at the moment but I'm interested to follow these developments nonetheless.
Sunday, March 17, 2024
Tribblix - a new Solaris distribution
Nice CD download with plugins to give you the entire environment you need. Well as much as anyone needs Solaris.
Monday, February 5, 2024
CPAN Testers 400k mark
Just hit 400k submitted test results on the CPAN Testers leaderboard, exciting times.
Friday, January 26, 2024
The good, the bad, and the ugly in systemd
An improvement for service management, but also an octopus taking over too much stuff, and not very well.
Saturday, January 20, 2024
New Features in Perl
I'm pretty late but I've been following along with the Perl advent calendar again last year. Brian D Foy put together a nice article on some new features that have been added to Perl recently you may have missed, and there were some other excellent articles.
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