Your language sucks...
As a result of work I've been doing for illumos , I've recently gotten re-engaged with internationalization, and the support for this in libc and localedef (I am the original author for our localedef.) I've decided that human languages suck.  Some suck wors...

A better illumos...
If you follow illumos very closely, you may already know some of this. A New Fork Several months ago, I forked illumos-gate (the primary source code repository for the kernel and system components of illumos) into illumos-core . I had started upstreaming my...

My Problem with Feminism
I'm going to say some things here that may be controversial.  Certainly that headline is.  But please, bear with me, and read this before you judge too harshly. As another writer said, 2014 has been a terrible year for women in tech.  (Whether in the indust...

Modernizing "less"
I have just spent an all-nighter doing something I didn't expect to do. I've " modernized " less (1).  (That link is to the changeset.) First off, let me explain the motivation.  We need a pager for illumos that can meet the requirements for POSIX IEEE 2003...

Yay, NFS lock manager is finally open! :-)