I recently had a discussion with a friend of mine about some talking points that Jonathan Blow made regarding the "UNIX Philosophy" during his interview on Oxide's On The Metal podcast. I'll place an excerpt of the provided transcript here. …

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There is this idea that to be UNIX means you have multiple tiny programs talking to each other over pipes, and some even take it further to implicate that this communication must be plain text. This classification is a deep misunderstanding of the ideas put forward by UNIX, and yet is a position I see many of my peers share. …

Also:

• https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@jutty/113028308196028999 @jutty@tilde.zone
• https://lobste.rs/s/dysrh2
• Misconceptions about the UNIX Philosophy – Jacob Moody, Posixcafe : r/unix