The best Rust tools rarely reject the philosophy of small composable programs–they simply revisit decades-old implementations with today’s programming languages and expectations.

Every program is a set of functions that cooperate to produce the desired result. Did you ever consider how your computer makes it possible for you to craft complete programs on-the-fly through its small utilities?

In this article, I look at what system administration entails. We see that the real work is understanding, producing, transforming, and maintaining text.

One of the greatest changes that happens when someone becomes a textsmith is not learning a new command. It is learning a new way of thinking.

Many people learn the Unix slogan “everything is a file.” That’s true, but I almost think the more profound slogan is: “Everything is a stream waiting to be read or written.”