Cool tricks, but reads like a how-to of things not to do when writing any type of code and deploying it.
A Jedi? Maybe at getting himself out of the quicksand he lays himself into ...
A Jedi? Maybe at getting himself out of the quicksand he lays himself into ...
You're telling me that you've never - under tremendous pressure - hacked things that quickly "handle" something - and then forgotten about them till much later?
Jeez, tough crowd :-)
However, the post illustrates an important feature I often see overlooked: the systems we build on top of are not just black boxes. We should not be afraid to really understand how they work, opening up source code, asking questions like, "what the heck is this /proc/NUMBER section of the filesystem?" And I think this post illuminates that in a pretty fun way.