Why Pipes Sometimes Get “Stuck": Buffering
- Julia Evans tl;dr: “The reason why “pipes get stuck” sometimes is that it’s VERY common for programs to buffer their output before writing it to a pipe or file. So the pipe is working fine, the problem is that the program never even wrote the data to the pipe!”featured in #571
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Entering Text In The Terminal Is Complicated
- Julia Evans tl;dr: Julia asked her network what was confusing about working in the terminal, and one thing that stood out to me was “editing a command you already typed in”. Julia shares why this is hard and some tips she’s picked up along the way.featured in #531
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A Year Of Building For The Terminal
- Darren Burns tl;dr: Over the course of the year, I’ve been able to work on a lot of really cool things. In this post, I’ll review a subset of the more interesting and visual stuff I’ve built. If you’re into terminals and command line tooling, you’ll hopefully see at least one thing of interest!featured in #377
What Happens When You Press A Key In Your Terminal?
- Julia Evans tl;dr: "I thought to ask a pretty basic question: when you press a key on your keyboard in a terminal (like Delete, or Escape, or a), which bytes get sent? As usual we’ll answer that question by doing some experiments and seeing what happens."featured in #336