Linux

Benchmarked side by side, powerline-go and Starship land within a millisecond of each other: 58ms against 59ms. What the migration cost, which visual details were hard to match, and where the remaining time goes.

Reflections on a citation of my 2002 Linux.com article about Red Flag Linux, and thoughts on how knowledge and perspective change over time.

Using bash's $RANDOM variable to shuffle lines in a file with a simple one-liner.

A hard drive failed, but RAID 1 saved the day—here's how to recover and rebuild without losing anything.

Exploring the Linux Block I/O scheduler: interview on dynamic runtime switching, limitations, and the splice interface for zero-copy data handling.

A Red Hat developer's dismissive response to a legitimate RPM database bug report that took two years to address, and what it reveals about package management reliability.