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A Text Editor as a User Interface (Dave Gauer) Using $EDITOR as a UI bridges the gap between CLI args and a full TUI; precedents are crontab -e, git commit, visudo, and vipw
Editor-as-UI pattern Shelling out to $EDITOR with a temp file as a lightweight middle ground between CLI flags and a full TUI
GTFOBins Curated list of Unix-like executables that can be abused to bypass restricted shells, escalate privileges, and transfer files when an attacker is constrained to "live off the land"
Multicall binary One executable that dispatches to many built-in subprograms by inspecting argv[0]; the design pattern behind BusyBox, Toybox, sbase, and many minimal Unix userlands
ratfactor (Dave Gauer) Dave Gauer's long-running personal site, full of "cards" — short focused notes on programming, Unix, and personal computing
specular.fi Personal engineering blog at specular.fi — short, code-driven notes on Linux internals, Alpine, Docker, and unfamiliar Unix tools
What is BusyBox? Walk-through of BusyBox's multicall dispatch — one binary, 130+ symlinks in Alpine, argv[0]-based applet lookup, ~304 applets compiled in