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Nitpicking the shell history scene in ‘Tron: Legacy’

In the 2010 film Tron: Legacy, there's a scene where the main character Sam Flynn sits down at a computer in his father’s study, and types some commands to try to figure out what Flynn senior had last been working on, before mysteriously disappearing.

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What's cooking on SourceHut? Q2 2026

sourcehut is a network of useful open source tools for software project maintainers and collaborators, including git repos, bug tracking, continuous integration, and mailing lists.

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The tenth OpenPGP email summit

The OpenPGP Email Summit is an annual meeting for those who work on encrypted email and related [...]

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Why Gentoo?

Multiple times in the past I’ve been thinking of how Gentoo is perceived by the wider public, the non-users. What probably stands out most is compiling. Almost everyone who heard of Gentoo kn…

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Clojure on Fennel part three: parsing

part one: persistent data structures part two: immutable.fnl optimizations The two previous posts were not related to the compiler itself, but were kicked off by the start of the compiler development. I’d say this project was the reason that I made proper...

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WP23 – WordPress News

Last week, we shipped WordPress 7 to the world. In seven days, 46% of all WordPresses, tens of millions across countless different hosting environments, are already on 7.0, auto-updated with no breakage. From a Raspberry Pi to the most secure sites in the...

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Martin Uecker

Nested functions are extremely useful, which is why basically any computer language since ALGOL60 has them. Except C.