You suck at programming

Ship It! Cloud, SRE, Platform Engineering

Dave Eddy has learned systems programming the traditional way with books and man pages. Now he’s sharing what he’s learned, starting with bash.

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Featuring:

• Dave Eddy – Website, GitHub, X
• Justin Garrison – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Autumn Nash – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

Interview

• Dave Eddy
• You Suck At Programming
• Mastering ZSH
• Void Linux
• On The Metal Podcast
• runit
• gokrazy Linux
• Bits between the bits talk

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Capitole

1. This is Ship It! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: System Initiative (00:00:53)

https://www.systeminit.com/?utm_source=changelog

3. You don't look like a JS dev (00:04:31)

4. You suck at programming (00:08:58)

5. Dave's hobbies (00:13:36)

6. Going the extra mile (00:14:52)

7. What not to write in Bash (00:16:25)

8. Moving to Rust (00:18:37)

9. Reason for Rust (00:20:52)

10. Avoiding containers & escape hatches (00:24:46)

11. Sponsor: Fly (00:27:04)

https://fly.io/

12. Sharing Linux kernel (00:30:39)

13. WASM is well-defined* (00:33:03)

14. Everyone who uses illumos works at Oxide (00:34:21)

15. Void Linux (00:37:48)

16. Runit structure (00:40:22)

17. Gokrazy (00:42:02)

18. Finding your niche (00:44:35)

19. Sponsor: Bitwarden (00:47:14)

https://bitwarden.com/secrets

20. Learning resources (00:50:26)

21. Embedded systems (00:57:03)

22. Wrapping up (00:57:48)

23. Outro (01:02:04)