miniblog.

There are *so many* ways that reading a text file can fail. Maybe it doesn't exist, it's a broken symlink, it's actually a directory, it's not the encoding you expected, or perhaps you just don't have the correct permissions. Reporting good errors is surprisingly labour intensive.

I've started keeping a list of particularly interesting bugs and patches that I've worked on: https://github.com/Wilfred/interesting-code The time that I once removed *a single closing paren* in Emacs is still my favourite.

A cute systemd feature to get the system clock roughly correct: if the system time is before the compilation time of the systemd binary, it moves the clock forward to that time! https://lwn.net/Articles/714355/