Good union types in Go would probably need types without a zero value

Some things that make languages easy (or not) to embed in Unix shell scripts (2022)

When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it

The long (after)life of some of our old fileserver hardware

Maybe we should explicitly schedule rebooting our fleet every so often

Buffered IO in Unix before V7 introduced stdio

We have an unusual concern when we use Let's Encrypt

Union types ('enum types') would be complicated in Go

Python type hints may not be not for me in practice

Losing NFS locks and the SunOS SIGLOST signal