I already wrote about tilde communities — small standalone Unix machines with dozens of users who host their web pages or gopher sites, learn to program, and communicate. It looks like such "social networks for hackers" become popular. There is a central hub collecting links to all tilde machines where you can find your community.

https://tildeverse.org/

#subculture #unix #social #tilde

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

We use the terminal all the time rarely wondering how it works. How does a command shell interact with a terminal emulator in a graphical environment? How can libraries like ncurses render pseudographic windows and controls?

Aram Drevekenin has created a wonderful interactive article where he explains how the various components of the system interact with each other to create such a familiar console experience.

Anatomy of a Terminal Emulator

#unix #terminal #programming #linux