FAT16 and FAT32 and their Flash-friendly cousin exFAT are all well and good for boot partitions or hauling PDFs down to the printers, but what if you could use a modern, full-featured filesystem like ZFS to portably share files between operating systems?

Thanks to the work of OpenZFS, this is well within reach — with just a bit of legwork. ...more

Consider this classic interview question:

Write a function to return the first n odd numbers.

Just reading that, some readers will probably have started answering in their heads already. ...more

There aren't many Unix utilities more Unixy than dd(1). It takes data from the input file and writes it to the output file — but it's kind of shy. Wit… ...more

Like most people, I was born without knowing how to touch-type. Growing up, I'd pore over programming guides and magazines. I'd write programs out lon… ...more

In my last post I took a perfectly good program and went about optimizing it. My first attempt was substantially slower, and I progressively found and… ...more

My friend showed me a piece of code he wrote years ago. It takes binary data on stdin and converts each octet to a sequence of 8 0 and 1 characters o… ...more

canvas { background-color: #aaa; } One quiet night I was remembering how much fun I had plotting graphics on my TRS-80 Color Computer and lamenting th… ...more