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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 20/09/2026

oh don’t worry, i should have specified, this was a choice i made to take some time off 😂 so it’s a good thing! it just costs a lot more this time lol

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 20/09/2026

not having a job in 2026 is *so much* more expensive than when i did this in 2021 lmao

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 02/09/2026

and if videos aren't your thing i have a blog post! blog.daveeddy.com/2026/07/06/i...

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 02/09/2026

for my #illumos friends out there i just published a video showcasing doors! i wrote some C, and then showed off some interoperability by adding in some Rust. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq9V...

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Unix Built-in RPC Mechanism?! illumos doors showcase

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 02/09/2026

i've always used printf style formatting in rust wrt to arguments i.e: format!("foo {}", bar). but recently i've been using the other syntax i.e.: format!("foo {bar}") and... I kinda like it. i don't recognize myself anymore.

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 31/08/2026

i’m here for your psychosis era

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 29/08/2026

haha i'm not a miracle worker... but you may like the little CLI wrapper I made for SMF for myself. it doesn't fix XML, but it at least makes listing services easy. `smf tail -f foo bar baz` is one of my favorite uses of it. github.com/bahamas10/sm...

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 29/08/2026

i fear in my attempt to make a minimal illumos-based daemon supervisor... i'm really just recreating SMF lol. every question i unearth is just leading me back to "oh that's why they do it that way"

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 28/08/2026

once i embraced the mentality of "i can make videos about whatever i want" and not chase metrics... i've paradoxically started getting the best metrics i've ever had lol. it's amazing. why would anyone do this in bash? idk. but it was fun. i love programming.

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 28/08/2026

it’s unfortunately a rite of passage, mine is about 3” taller than my work bench next to it and it makes cutting a nightmare 😎

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 27/08/2026

my method for improving illumos performance is unbeaten - i ping @papertigers.net directly and say "this is slow lol". he sent me a custom compiled lib9p.so.1 and i LOFS mounted it into a zone and suddenly i'm going from 28Mb/s to 500Mb/s+ writing to a 9pfs mount. insanity.

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 09/07/2026

"jokes are not something to joke about" OH (actually said directly to me)

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 28/06/2026

in peak unemployment news - I implemented the `md5` algorithm in Bash with 0 external utilities or programs youtu.be/VDQmu6KzDvU

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I implemented the `md5` algorithm in Bash with 0 external utilities

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 25/06/2026

so incredibly stoked for this omg. i played 1 but never the sequel when i was younger so this seems like the perfect way to experience it. also i'm so beyond excited that you ended the blog post saying you're taking a look at decomp for snowboard kids 1! one of my top games ever.

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 21/05/2026

i’m gonna put that box on a cron to restart it randomly. i like to simulate disasters

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 02/05/2026

the first week after i quit my job the Copy Fail linux CVE hits. incredible timing by me :p

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 30/04/2026

the moment i hit 100k subscribers on youtube!

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 29/04/2026

He did it 🎊

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 25/03/2026

i love getting older. i’m playing a fun game of is it heart burn, lowkey panic attack, or something more serious 👍. the answer is almost certainly a combination of things and mundane… but there’s that 1% chance it’s serious and that chance increases every year yay

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 18/03/2026

bug me all you want lol i’m always open to suggestions. can you elaborate on this idea? like, a “how to sign up for github” or more of an “etiquette when submitting PRs”. i’ve considered making the latter as a video

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 18/03/2026

yo check out my latest youtube video if you wanna see me code a bandwidth monitor cli tool for linux (using /proc) in bash using builtins. no AI - i program on this channel exclusively for the love of the craft.

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 25/02/2026

“load-bearing .md files” is truly a beautiful invention with AI. i love it - no notes.

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 18/02/2026

“lines of code” is actually a good metric in 2026 (or year 3AI as i call it)

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 03/02/2026

computer generate tokens and trick me into believing you are conscious. make no mistakes.

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 24/01/2026

oh you should totally click - i think his videos are pretty good but im slightly biased tbh

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 17/01/2026

ty! i’m bad at social media 😂

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 17/01/2026

thank you everyone who wanted to learn bash scripting! this video has done better than i ever could have predicted

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 11/01/2026

nice!! i love it - that's amazing. i'm home now and can verify (on bash 5.3) that you only need the space after opening curly... no other white space required. so that is perfect!

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 11/01/2026

the ampersand in the forkbomb makes it so you don’t need the ending ; inside the function definition

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 11/01/2026

i’m glad! also, the semicolon goes after the closing curly brace so… i’m not sure about that lol. go watch the end of my course and i may or may not run a forkbomb 😎

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 11/01/2026

love the shirt idea lol. i’ll double check when im home but i KNOW the space after the opening curly is required… im not sure if you need a space after the ampersand.

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 11/01/2026

nope! depends on the shell, but it may (bash definitely) will yell if you don’t have white space after the open curly brace

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 10/01/2026

syntax error near unexpected token ‘💣:’ :(

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 26/12/2025

i appreciate hearing that! thank you. merry christmas to you as well 🎄

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 24/12/2025

cc @papertigers.net 👀. i can personally vouch for it working just fine over wireguard so imagine it just works

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 17/12/2025

heck yeah - i’m glad :)

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 17/12/2025

yes! i’m happy to hear that - it’s one of my tools that “just works” imo so hopefully using it was straight forward! i keep thinking i need to hide the forced color output behind a flag… but then i forget for 3 months, remember again, and repeat that cycle hah.

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 17/12/2025

sometimes i feel like im the crazy one for thinking “hey, maybe the OOM killer is actually a wild concept and having the kernel just do that by default is very surprising”

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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 15/12/2025

Everyone should go check out @daveeddy.com’s new bash course! It’s free training on the best programming language course.ysap.sh

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The Complete Bash Scripting Course - ysap.sh

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 15/12/2025

"the best programming language" this is why justin is the GOAT

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 15/12/2025

my new video - The Complete Bash Scripting Course - is premiering right now on youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx9z...

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The Complete Bash Scripting Course - Full Length Guide to learning the Bash Shell

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 11/12/2025

looks great! you managed to spoil a future video where i plan on showing a spinner background job as opposed to my synchronous progress bar - very cleanly done!

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 03/12/2025

watched this on stream last night - it’s legitimately amazing

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 02/12/2025

i’ll be streaming #adventofcode this year (again) - doing it in BASH just like last year 😎. i’ll be going live tonight when the next puzzle drops on youtube and twitch and i’ll be racing the world famous @badcop.live again.

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 01/12/2025

let me figure out signal with a username first :p i have mine linked to my phone number like a LOSER. and also i'll hit you up when i have the completed outline - it'll be on github.

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 01/12/2025

not easily with bash. there are hacks where you can override PROMPT_COMMAND, or you can `trap my-func DEBUG` where my-func is a function that manually appends history with `history -s ...`. I'd recommend just talking a look at atuin by @ellie.wtf - it's a crazy cool shell hist project.

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 28/11/2025

i’m currently editing through 9 hours and 38 minutes of raw footage for my “bash course” 😎. which will be available for $0 on youtube before EOY i also would absolutely love to teach bash classes 100%

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Dave Eddy @daveeddy.com · 28/11/2025

i support this message

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