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John Goerzen
John Goerzen

John Goerzen

jgoerzen@floss.social

John Goerzen

jgoerzen@floss.social

Hacker, dad, pilot, amateur radio operator, activist, guy that is susceptible to new hobbies. Former president of Software in the Public Interest.

I live miles from the nearest paved road in #Kansas.

Interests: #rust #debian #linux #pilot #flying #hamradio #emacs #orgmode #kansas #floss #kansas #raspberrypi #programming #parenting #retrocomputing

SRE at Google. I do not speak for my employer; views expressed here are my own.

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John Goerzen

1 year ago • •

John Goerzen

1 year ago • •


#TodayILearned that #Unix #stderr was created because early troff sent both document output and errors to the typesetting machine, wasting consumables! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAT_(pho…

Computer Assisted Typesetter, a phototypesetter developed by Graphic Systems in 1972

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#unix #todayilearned #stderr
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