This post is a short guide to disaster planning and recovery for organizations whose “IT department” fits around a single table […] The goal is a plan that works well enough for you to survive the worst day of your team’s existence, written by people who have a dozen other things to do. Keep it short, keep it tested, and keep it alive.

Originally formatted as terse but usable bullet points, later expanded to a longer-form essay.

Part of the S6 cinematic universe: a set of simple, powerful system scripting tools that offer alternatives to traditional shell scripting and init systems. The execline language is a chain-loading command execution tool with careful semantics around variable expansion and block management. Interesting as a kind of embedded DSL in the Unix scripting tradition.

Classes teach you all about advanced topics within CS, from operating systems to machine learning, but there’s one critical subject that’s rarely covered, and is instead left to students to figure out on their own: proficiency with their tools. We’ll teach you how to master the command-line, use a powerful text editor, use fancy features of version control systems, and much more!