From RTFM to participant awards This is a story of the decline of our standards. I expect the opinions I express here may be controversial but honestly? I don’t mind it. I’m all for discussion... Posted by Jesse Portnoy on May 06, 2023 · 9 mins read
Take your BASH scripting seriously In 2007, the legendary Larry Wall, creator of Perl, wrote an article called Programming is Hard, Let’s Go Scripting. I’d recommend giving it a good read but here are some... Posted by Jesse Portnoy on May 03, 2023 · 8 mins read
Export Medium posts as Markdown First of all, why? Well, In my case, I write on Medium with the, albeit unlikely, hope that one day, I may be popular enough to generate a modest revenue... Posted by Jesse Portnoy on April 26, 2023 · 2 mins read
Capture your users attention with style Do you manage UNIX machines that are logged into by multiple users? If so, this scenario will be familiar to you: you need to communicate something to your users — a maintenance... Posted by Jesse Portnoy on April 23, 2023 · 3 mins read
Docker is not a packaging tool — part 1 This is the second part of the series so, if you landed here, you should go back to the first segment where I gave a short intro and some arguments... Posted by Jesse Portnoy on April 18, 2023 · 1 mins read