Plurrrr

Wed 21 Jul 2021

My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop

After the disappointment of my X1 Nano and learning that all future Intel “Evo”-branded laptops would lack S3 suspend, I started thinking about returning to my M1 MacBook full-time or building an OpenBSD desktop. I chose the latter, building my first desktop machine in many years.

Source: My Fanless OpenBSD Desktop, an article by Joshua Stein.

The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate

I publish Perl stories on this blog once a week, and it seems every time there’s at least one response on social media that amounts to, “I hate Perl because of its weird syntax.” Or, “It looks like line noise.” (Perl seems to have outlasted that one — when’s the last time you used an acoustic modem?) Or the quote attributed to Keith Bostic: “The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.”

So let’s address, confront, and demystify this hate. What are these objectionable syntactical, noisy, possibly encrypted bits? And why does Perl have them?

Source: The four noisy horsemen of Perl hate, an article by Mark Gardner.

A Fast Intro to Git Internals

Many git tutorials focus on a set of commands and instructions to “get you up to speed” in git, without addressing the underlying concept of “how git works”. While the commands are important, I feel it’s more important for you to understand what’s going on behind the scenes.

Source: Fast Intro to Git Internals.