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"This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface." -Doug McIlroy

In today's context we can draw parallels with the microservice approach towards building software.

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    “Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”

    Then Lennart Poettering came along and fucked it all.
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    @ethernetzero Haha, I had no clue who that guy was until now. For others who don't know, this is the guy responsible for

    - Avahi (which I do like)
    - pulse (wtf)
    - systemd (even more wtf)
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