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Systems, databases and terminals

What systems projects use, chose and left, quoted from their own engineering posts.

4 systems projects, most things first

Linux kernelProject
The Linux kernel is the open-source operating system kernel project maintained at kernel.org.
rustfmt, git, Rust, C++, LLVM
5 things
SQLiteProject
SQLite is a small, fast, self-contained, public-domain SQL database engine.
Fossil, C++, Rust
5 things
fish shellProject
fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell, an open-source project.
Rust, Python, CMake
4 things
GhosttyProject
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, cross-platform terminal emulator, an open-source project started by Mitchell Hashimoto.
Zig, Swift, GTK
3 things

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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The small bar beside a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The bar shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Full and green is recent. It drains, and turns amber and then grey, as the post gets older.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The bar is empty after about:

Hardware, services4 years
Software5 years
Podcasts, courses, other8 years
Books25 years

A striped bar means the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no bar.