By the time you read this, I’ll have already been sitting on an island for a few days.  There’s so much stuff to post lately I’m scheduling material a week out.

• Have you used the grep replacement ‘ack‘?  There’s a Twitter feed of tips for it.
• A horrible programming idea, so bad I can’t tell if it’s trolling.  (via multiple places)
• Links at the previous item led me here: Breaking Systems for Fun and Profit.
• A tiny fatmac.  It’s adorable.
• Beautiful Code, from Rob Pike, described by Brian Kernighan.
• That previous link was found via this reimplementation of Pike’s grep in Go.  The “Practice of Programming” book mentioned is one of my favorites.
• The SCUMM Diary.  The SCUMM engine could arguably be as big an influence as the Quake engine on game history.  (via)
• This is a very nice keyboard.
• Managing sshd in Ansible, cross-platform.  A sequel to last week’s Ansible/Lucas link.
• UNIX pioneers remember the good times.  These anecdotes seems to illustrate the personalities of their tellers/perpetrators.  Or at least I imagine they do.  (via)
• NTP reference clock statistics.  (also via)  When milliseconds matter.  Also, yay graphs!
• WTF Visualizations.  A counterpoint to the previous well-illustrated link.  I read through a bunch of the nonsensical graphs and started to feel disoriented.  (also also via)

Your unrelated comic link of the week: The Scout, by Malachi Ward.  A self-contained sci-fi story.