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prose.sh
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prose.sh is a personal blog at blog.toast.cafe about programming and systems. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “What's New in POSIX 2024”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this post for its account of POSIX 2024 changes, such as null-terminated options for find and xargs and the ban on newlines in filenames, which affect shell scripting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
my personal blog for less-serious stuff
Most-linked posts?
- What's New in POSIX 20243 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-10-28
What Hacker News says?
Nitpick re: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu#fn:6 SRC != ls *.c is fine in a makefile as far as POSIX is concerned, because: > Applications shall select target names from the set of characters consisting solely of slashes, hyphens, periods, underscores, digits, and alphabetics from the portable character set
Comment linking /posix2024-xcu
on “What's New in POSIX 2024”Submitted What's New in POSIX 2024 as a story · 237 points
HN discussionA lot of this post hinges on the fact that newlines in filenames were legal, and that people wrote shell without handling quoting correctly. While quoting (as well as ls altering filenames) is still an issue, find -print0, read -d '', and similar are no longer neccessary. Newlines are now forbidden in filenames: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu
Comment linking /posix2024-xcu
on “Show HN: I made an ls alternative for my personal use”Submitted What's New in POSIX 2024 – XCU as a story · 27 points
HN discussionThat’s changing, maybe eventually even on real systems: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu#the-nuclear-option
Comment linking /posix2024-xcu
on “I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs”Submitted What's New in POSIX 2024 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNo dependency on GNU required anymore, POSIX 2024 supports it: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu#the-null-option
Comment linking /posix2024-xcu
on “I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs”Submitted What's new in POSIX 2024 XCU commands and utilities as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Floating Points and Boxes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Does Technology Exist? as a story · 2 points
HN discussion