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Murderous Renaissance Painters: The Things You Learn From Programming Books

Jun 01, 2026

One thing I've always found entertaining in technical works is how authors bring in their weird non-technical hobbies and interests as examples. I've learned a lot of random facts just because the author teaching some programming language happened to also be into exotic cooking or had traveled in South America.

Murderous Renaissance Painters: The Things You Learn From Programming Books

While The King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello From 1993

raindog308

May 05, 2026

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Sometimes I wake up at at 1am thinking about problems in my life. Sometimes I think about things I have to do the coming day. And then there are days when some almost-forgotten bit of code is just about to expire from my mental cache and decides it wants to take a stab at creating a new reference to itself in neural network.

While The King Lives: An Old C Programming Prank in GNU Hello From 1993

The Missing Semester of Your CS Education

raindog308

Feb 27, 2023

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We ran across an interesting class from MIT entitled "The Missing Semester of Your CS Eduction." Here is how it's described: Classes teach you all about advanced topics within CS, from operating syst...

Here Today, Gone When You Exit: Proper Tempfiles in Shell Scripts

raindog308

Apr 09, 2022

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In the course of my career, I've periodically come across code like this in shell scripts: TEMP_FILE=/tmp/tempfile Or sometimes, slightly more elegantly: TEMPFILE=/tmp/tempfile.$$ The problems with th...