BSD Now

450: Unix Tool Writing


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The ideas that made Unix, hints for writing Unix tools, cron best practices, three different sorts of filesystem errors, LibreSSL 3.5.1 released, taskwarrior to manage tasks, and more.

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Headlines
Unix Philosophy: A Quick Look at the Ideas that Made Unix
Hints for writing Unix Tools
News Roundup
Cron best practices
Filesystems can experience at least three different sorts of errors
LibreSSL 3.5.1 development branch as well as 3.4.3 (stable) and 3.3.6 released
Taskwarrior to manage tasks
Beastie Bits
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