In this article, I make a real, working interactive shell written in Zig. Though essentially a toy, it demonstrates the incredible elegance of the fork() system call and is an example of what can be done with absolutely no runtime memory allocations.
Thorsten Ball - Why threads can't fork
There is an interesting thread on the Go issue tracker about daemonizing processes. Most of the thread is not about daemonizing processes though, but more about why Go has no Fork() function which you can call directly in your code. The first time I read through it I was wondering and saying to myself: “Yeah, why is there no Fork()? It surely can’t be that hard to implement.” After all you can already call system calls with the syscall package. As I read more and more I realized that the problem is not implementing Fork() per se, but rather implementing Fork() to work safely in a multi-threaded environment, which most Go programs are. So I tried to find out why.
Ratatui
Ratatui: Cook up delicious terminal user interfaces in Rust - the fast and lightweight TUI library trusted by developers
No Fork Required - Scott's Thoughts
What if another operating system isn't the solution to anything at all? What if device-level identity could tie into existing systems to help pull users out of walled gardens, rather than creating new gardens?
the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay
There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff
Deterministic Core, Non-Deterministic Shell - Outdata
Determinism, architecture, and the de-sloppification of legacy code.
"Concatenative programming and stack-based languages" by Douglas Creager
No, Really, Bash Is Not Enough: Why Large-Scale CI Needs an Orchestrator - Ian Duncan
A deeper dive into why shell scripts cannot replace a proper CI control plane, drawn from years of building and operating CI systems at scale.
shellbox - Instant Linux Boxes and OCI-backed VMs via SSH
Instant Linux boxes via SSH. Create stock boxes or OCI image-backed VMs. Scale to zero and pay only for what you use.
Learn Go by Building a Command Line Todo App | Barbarian Meets Coding
Learn the Go programming language by building a test-driven command line todo application
I can haz smoller NixOS ISOs? | natkr's ramblings
In which I painstakingly remove functionality from a Linux live image. Like a normal person.
Script Wizards
A TTRPG and software studio. Small tools for running games, and a zine for hackers who play them.
Dancing mad with sandboxing
Kefka is a Go-native shell sandbox with coreutils, Python via WebAssembly, and more. Learn the works of madness that went into making this happen!
Pony
An open-source, object-oriented, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language.
Extensible Software in the age of LLMs | Jeremy Morrell
Solid core + capability-based sandboxes + LLMs = Users with superpowers
Magicoder: Empowering Code Generation with OSS-Instruct
We introduce Magicoder, a series of fully open-source (code, weights, and data) Large Language Models (LLMs) for code that significantly closes the gap with top code models while having no more...
