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With regards to Redhat’s recent decision…

In case you’ve not been following, the decision in question is to limit access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code.

Jul 1, 2023

With regards to Redhat’s recent decision…

Jul 1, 2023

Docker is not a packaging tool — part 2

In the last segment of this serious, we briefly discussed the importance of starting the build process from a clean ENV and the reason why…

May 12, 2023

Docker is not a packaging tool — part 2

May 12, 2023

Annoying things LI can easily fix (and should!)

No Markdown support. Even if you somehow fail to consider the large number of LI users who are in the tech business (developers, devOps…

May 7, 2023

Annoying things LI can easily fix (and should!)

May 7, 2023

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…

May 6, 2023

From RTFM to participant awards

May 6, 2023

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…

May 3, 2023

Take your BASH scripting seriously

May 3, 2023

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…

Apr 26, 2023

Export Medium posts as Markdown

Apr 26, 2023

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…

Apr 23, 2023

Capture your users attention with style

Apr 23, 2023

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…

Apr 18, 2023

Docker is not a packaging tool — part 1

Apr 18, 2023

Whatever happened to “be descriptive”?

Some thoughts with regards to ridiculous job descriptions I’ve encountered on LI in recent years (it’s an ongoing and worrying trend):

Apr 16, 2023

Whatever happened to “be descriptive”?

Apr 16, 2023

Don’t forget to FLOSS!

A bar circa 1950. Four women enter. Thanks to special magic employed by certain Hollywood professionals, the leading girl grabs everyone’s…

Apr 8, 2023

Don’t forget to FLOSS!

Apr 8, 2023

Jesse Portnoy

Jesse Portnoy

I am a multidisciplinary programmer. I enjoy taking build and deployment headaches and turning them into rainbows. https://packman.io

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