Familiarity breeds ennui, and even though Bash is the default Linux command shell used daily by hordes of contented users, it contains a wealth of interesting and useful features that don’t get much attention. Today we shall learn about Bash builtins a…
On February 16, Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake announced private beta testing for Pinwheel, an online "Flickr for Places" type of service. Fake sent me an invitation to try out Pinwheel and answered a few questions about her new project, w…
When Linus Torvalds says he is going to work on a side project he doesn’t think small and he doesn’t work slowly. When he created “Git,” the software source control and collaboration system that runs Linux kernel development, he started writing c…