One of the joys of being a textsmith is reading books that reinforce good practical habits on being productive on the terminal. This review of Daniel J. Barrett’s book, Efficient Linux at the Command Line shows why some books are timeless in their approach to their treatment of the terminal.

Perhaps nowhere is the impact of Rust felt more than in sysadmin: its speed and expressiveness means that some old tools are being modernized. Whether this is good of bad depends on the user’s perspective.

This week’s nugget is on version controlling your application configuration files

Any work that you value has to be placed under version control, not only as part of history but preservation. This article shows why textsmiths should use git.

This post shows that textsmithing is not merely about writing, but about understanding and shaping computer systems.