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xfennecon Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd

Xfennec here, thank you so much for this message. ManiaDrive was a small game made with a bunch of friends, I'm so glad it had an impact on you. I'm now a dad, and it makes me very emotional to read this. Thanks again.

xfennecon C Posix-compliant argument parsing in 42 LoC, inspired by Duff's device

How this code can enter the "if (0)" part?

xfennecon “Zero fucks given” in other languages

"Ça m'en touche une sans faire bouger l'autre."

xfennecon Libvirt – The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (2013)

We've build our own automated hosting infrastructure* a few years ago on top of libvirt. Using the libvirt API was a breeze and libvirt is rock solid since day one for us, I can only recommend this project.

* Shameless plug: https://github.com/OnitiFR/mulch

We're using libvirt-go binding (Daniel Berrangé and his team is doing a excellent job maintaining it!), and KVM/QEMU hypervisior. For a small team like us, it's incredibly valuable to have access to such powerful tools in a such easy way.