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fraggleTiling window managers have been around since the early days of graphical interfaces. Xerox PARC laid the groundwork in the 1980s, and even Windows 1.0 experimented with tiling before switching to overlapping windows.In the Linux world, tiling never really left. It re-emerged in the early 2000s with tools like ratpoison and dwm, evolving into modern favorites like i3, bspwm, and Wayland-native Sway. For many users, especially developers and power users, tiling offers a more efficient, keyboard-driven workflow that stacking WMs just can't match.<a href="https://1.6.0.0.8.0.0.b.e.d.0.a.2.ip6.arpa/tags/tilingwm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TilingWM</a> <a href="https://1.6.0.0.8.0.0.b.e.d.0.a.2.ip6.arpa/tags/i3wm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#i3WM</a> <a href="https://1.6.0.0.8.0.0.b.e.d.0.a.2.ip6.arpa/tags/sway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sway</a> <a href="https://1.6.0.0.8.0.0.b.e.d.0.a.2.ip6.arpa/tags/linuxworkflow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LinuxWorkflow</a> <a href="https://1.6.0.0.8.0.0.b.e.d.0.a.2.ip6.arpa/tags/unixphilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnixPhilosophy</a> <a href="https://1.6.0.0.8.0.0.b.e.d.0.a.2.ip6.arpa/tags/powerusers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PowerUsers</a>

T_XAnd I'm daring to make a bold statement: This seems to me that here <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/systemd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#systemd</a> actually enhances and helps with the application of the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/UnixPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnixPhilosophy</a> of using a modular design with multiple, small services and interconnecting them. By creating reliable connections between them. Or if some connection breaks unrecoverably to properly propagate this to all affected users. And by using a simple, short, descriptive, non-programmatic language for service files.

Ramin HonaryThe <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/lispygopherclimate" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LispyGopherClimate</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/weekly" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#weekly</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/tech" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/podcast" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#podcast</a> for 2025-04-02 Listen at: <a href="https://archives.anonradio.net/202504020000_screwtape.mp3" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://archives.anonradio.net/202504020000_screwtape.mp3</a>This week we will talk about the Unix Philosophy and how it compares and contrasts with whatever one might call the “Emacs Philosophy.”The impetus for the discussion is a series of blog posts by <a class="u-url mention" href="https://fe.disroot.org/users/ramin_hal9001" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ramin_hal9001</a> called “Emacs fulfills the UNIX Philosophy”:<ul><li><a href="https://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/articles/emacs-fulfills-the-unix-philosophy.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The original introductory blog post</a></li><li><a href="https://codeberg.org/ramin_hal9001/lisp-gopher-climate_chat-about-emacs/src/branch/main/show-outline.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The show notes</a></li></ul>…as well as a fascinating <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@screwtape/114225644895007169" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">discussion</a> that took place over this past week on ActivityPub on the topic of the Unix philosophy and history of Lisp on Unix in which some very knowledgeable people have contributed anecdotes and facts.<a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/technology" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/programming" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/softwareengineering" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwareEngineering</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/retrocomputing" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/lisp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lisp</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/r7rs" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#r7rs</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/schemelang" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SchemeLang</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/unixphilosophy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnixPhilosophy</a> This weeks <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/climatecrisis" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/haiku" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#haiku</a> by <a class="u-url mention" href="https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kentpitman</a><pre><code>within each of us our loved ones, in tiny form, caring's innate yield company at a distance legacy in case of loss</code></pre><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/senryu" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#senryu</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/poem" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#poem</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/shortpoem" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ShortPoem</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/smallpoem" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallPoem</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/smallpoems" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SmallPoems</a>

the roamer<a href="https://infosec.exchange/@BradRubenstein" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@BradRubenstein</a> <a href="https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@b0rk</a> The book The UNIX Philosophy by Mike Gancarz (quoted on the Wikipedia page) is a little gem: very brief, non-technical, strictly focused on the underlying design principles, expounded in simple language. Lovely. I have the habit of picking it up every once in a while and randomly re-reading one of its chapters.<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#unix</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/UnixPhilosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnixPhilosophy</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/MikeGancarz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MikeGancarz</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#design</a>

Ramin Honary<blockquote>“The more I use Lisp, the more I understand the Unix philosophy as something not for daily use, but as something to be lying on top seamlessly”</blockquote><a class="u-url mention" href="https://paquita.masto.host/@anthk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@anthk</a> yes, I completely agree! I actually wrote a whole series of blog posts on this topic:<ul><li><a href="https://tilde.town/~ramin_hal9001/articles/emacs-fulfills-the-unix-philosophy.html%20" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Emacs Fulfills the Unix Philosophy</a></li></ul><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/emacs" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Emacs</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/unix" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Unix</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/unixphilosophy" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnixPhilosophy</a>

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