Back in the day our friends at Bell Labs had some awesome ideas. They came up with something called Unix. It rocked pretty hard.
These days, we’re lucky to have several flavors of it to run on our computers. Mac OS X is fundamentally Unix. Linux and the BSD variants continue to evolve and improve.
The nice thing about *nix, particularly the free and popular varieties, is the vast level of customization it affords. Everyone has something to learn, and it’s fun and a bit of a brain teaser to pick up new ways of doing things.
The most exciting shit usually happens on the command line. Achieving oneness with machines like these, particularly from the shell, is an art and a science. Minimizing keystrokes. Automating tasks. Customizing your vimrc. Using screen with prejudice. These things are what we call here at the ubergibson, the world’s most elite mainframe server, optimo.
This blog is a place for a few dudes who enjoy computation to ramble about what’s awesome about *nix. A place to share tradecraft and publicly explore optimo. Join us, and compute.
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