Abstract: In the Olden Days (1990s) baby programmers (or at least *this* baby programmer) learned from each other by being piled into one giant computer lab logged into one big compute resource, sharing “dotfiles” and overhearing fragments of conversations/frustrations. Today’s distributed devices and hybrid work environment makes it a little harder to capture that same magic, but let’s see if we still can.
In this informal chat — not a single Greek letter! — Rob will show some of the useful tricks he’s picked up over 25 years in software development. Topics include debugging, shell environments, obscure utilities from the early days of Unix, and other fun items. Bring your own favorite tool, technique, or trick and we’ll show off to each other.