Our slowly growing Unix monoculture

Some brief notes on 'numfmt' from GNU Coreutils

JSON is usually the least bad option for machine-readable output formats

SSH has become our universal (Unix) external access protocol

The uncertain possible futures of Unix graphical desktops

Prometheus metrics saves us from painful kernel debugging (2022)

The challenges of working out how many CPUs your program can use on Linux

Background of Linux's "file-max" and "nr_open" limits on file descriptors (2021)

"Out of Band" network management is not trivial

Plaintext is not a great format for (system) logs