Blog posts tagged "brian-kernighan"

1. 10 Mar 2025 Migrating GitHub issue based URL bookmarks to wallabag

   In this post I outline how I migrated my collection of reading list bookmarks, stored as issues in a GitHub repo, to wallabag which I'm now self-hosting.

   • github
   • jq
   • shell
   • docker
   • tools
   • homelab
   • brian-kernighan
2. 21 Jul 2021 Unix tooling - join, don't extend

   Reading a 1984 paper by Pike and Kernighan helped crystallise an important axiom in Unix tool design about joining programs rather than extending them.

   • shell
   • tools
   • architecture
   • unix
   • brian-kernighan
3. 26 Jan 2021 Columnar layout with AWK

   A breakdown of a simple AWK script to format values into neatly aligned columns.

   • shell
   • tools
   • til
   • brian-kernighan
4. 23 Oct 2019 Shell power and simplicity

   Reflecting on the often overlooked power and simplicity of shell programming concepts.

   • shell
   • tools
   • unix
   • brian-kernighan
   • dennis-ritchie

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