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Container networking is simple

Containers are all the craze, and have been for the past couple of years. And why not? They're isolated little environments of bespoke software stacks that are easily sharable. One of their few downsides though (for most people), is the added complexity of networking. Fortunately Ivan Velichko has written a thorough article on how networking between containers work, both on your local machine and with the external world

A decade of dotfiles

Evan Hahn drops some golden nuggets relating to bash/shell scripting.

Unix command line conventions over time

Lars Wirzenius outlines the history and design choices of the Unix command line options so often used today.

Exploring fff part 1 - main

Bash scripting always feels cool. Plus it's super handy on any UNIX system. Well what better way to learn neat tricks and patterns than to dissect the code of an expert? DJ Adams digs into “a simple file manager written in Bash” by Dylan Araps called fff, inspecting every line and commenting on any intricacies.

My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch (in Bash)

Dominika "sdomi" Liberda describes some of the trials and tribulations encountered while implementing the title; most of which were related to wrangling data types.

Exploring fff part 2 - get_ls_colors

Part 1 of this series was featured in issue #84. In this part, DJ Adams continues to spelunk into the depths of fff ("a simple file manager written in Bash"), this time focusing on the colorization functions that make files appear pretty in the terminal.