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He/Him. Old school hacker (40+ years hacking code/hardware); crafter of crafty firmware; occasional artist, cook and lover of intense music. #Lisp, #awk, #perl, #Forth, #oberon #AdaLang, #Lua, #C, #Firmware, #unix, #OpenBSD, #nokings

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Mood:
Fuck the Broligarchy
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Trans rights; BLM
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marocddot @marocddot@hachyderm.io · Jul 26, 2026
marocddot
@marocddot@hachyderm.io

He/Him. Old school hacker (40+ years hacking code/hardware); crafter of crafty firmware; occasional artist, cook and lover of intense music. #Lisp, #awk, #perl, #Forth, #oberon #AdaLang, #Lua, #C, #Firmware, #unix, #OpenBSD, #nokings

hachyderm.io
Replying to @marocddot@hachyderm.io
I've tried this here https://maplefish.com/todd/squawk.html (a secure chat system in gawk, but it does require an openssl binary, and of course gawk, which isn't the default awk on most systems I use).
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marocddot @marocddot@hachyderm.io · Jul 26, 2026
marocddot
@marocddot@hachyderm.io

He/Him. Old school hacker (40+ years hacking code/hardware); crafter of crafty firmware; occasional artist, cook and lover of intense music. #Lisp, #awk, #perl, #Forth, #oberon #AdaLang, #Lua, #C, #Firmware, #unix, #OpenBSD, #nokings

hachyderm.io
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A bit dramatic, but I have been looking for a way of writing portable apps that don't depend on anything. This used to be, in the dark ages, the way we wrote things. I've been trying this with awk but it turns out that network access is not possible without external help (dependencies) or gawk (which isn't installed everywhere).
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marocddot @marocddot@hachyderm.io · Jul 26, 2026
marocddot
@marocddot@hachyderm.io

He/Him. Old school hacker (40+ years hacking code/hardware); crafter of crafty firmware; occasional artist, cook and lover of intense music. #Lisp, #awk, #perl, #Forth, #oberon #AdaLang, #Lua, #C, #Firmware, #unix, #OpenBSD, #nokings

hachyderm.io
Zero Dependency Programming. Do you have code you can give me that does something useful but doesn't require "installing" stuff to run it? Let's just talk about BSD and Linux based systems. You email me this script. It will save the world from a rogue LLM by issuing some obscure kill switch sequence to a UDP port. We have minutes to save the world. I try to run it and... it depends on version xyz of some component that may be in an internet repo and it may have dependencies too. I am running this from a cloud instance with no installed C compiler nor root permissions. We are doomed. I'm wondering if #perl (sans CPAN) is that zero dependency language I'm looking for.
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marocddot @marocddot@hachyderm.io · Jul 26, 2026
marocddot
@marocddot@hachyderm.io

He/Him. Old school hacker (40+ years hacking code/hardware); crafter of crafty firmware; occasional artist, cook and lover of intense music. #Lisp, #awk, #perl, #Forth, #oberon #AdaLang, #Lua, #C, #Firmware, #unix, #OpenBSD, #nokings

hachyderm.io
"...the street finds its own uses for things" (William Gibson, Burning Chrome) is probably my favorite literary line to quote, regarding use of tech. It's something of a mantra I repeat to remind myself that every technology created, whether through academia or big evil industry, will eventually be co-opted by the people and put to uses never intended. This was the essence of (old school) hacking. My street tools have been #perl #forth #awk and #tcl
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marocddot @marocddot@hachyderm.io · Jul 25, 2026
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@marocddot@hachyderm.io

He/Him. Old school hacker (40+ years hacking code/hardware); crafter of crafty firmware; occasional artist, cook and lover of intense music. #Lisp, #awk, #perl, #Forth, #oberon #AdaLang, #Lua, #C, #Firmware, #unix, #OpenBSD, #nokings

hachyderm.io
Interesting realization/observation (to me at least). My MacBook (Tahoe 26.1), OpenBSD (7.9) and various Linux laptops, SBCs, etc all have a fairly modern Perl (5.xx) installed by default. I start wondering if I should be writing more of my portable (no dependency) stuff in #perl
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marocddot @marocddot@hachyderm.io · Jul 21, 2026
marocddot
@marocddot@hachyderm.io

He/Him. Old school hacker (40+ years hacking code/hardware); crafter of crafty firmware; occasional artist, cook and lover of intense music. #Lisp, #awk, #perl, #Forth, #oberon #AdaLang, #Lua, #C, #Firmware, #unix, #OpenBSD, #nokings

hachyderm.io
I miss Perl If a computer language could be hardcore punk, it would be #perl. It annoyed the hell out of developers when I wrote code in it. Over 27 years ago I wrote AFT https://maplefish.com/todd/aft.html (or you can "apt install aft" under Ubuntu) It's been 15 years since I released the latest version and it still works on any basic Perl distro.
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