Cinco De Mayo is coming up.

• Why I run my business like an open source project.  The contractors I use at work that take this approach are much easier to work with.  (via)
• Detecting the use of “curl | bash” server side.  Even more evidence of what a bad idea that strategy can be.  (via)
• Developer Certificate of Origin versus Contributor License Agreements.  Boring, but I understand the reasoning.  (also via)
• Creating Magnetic Disk Storage at IBM.  (via)
• The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem.  Displaced by Winbuntu.  (via)
• What happened to _why.
• Email Isn’t The Thing You’re Bad At.  I see so many people with this problem.  (via)
• Baby UNIX.
• Dyson’s Maps & Cartography.  Hand-drawn D&D maps.  (via)
• Related: The Dice You Never Knew You Needed.  Buy here.  (via)
• 5 Magical Beasts And How To Replace Them With A Shell Script.
• GEOS, an operating system I never really knew about.
• when i wore a younger fool’s cap.  GitHub uber alles.
• O Reader! My Reader.  I’ve gotten used to tt-rss.

Your unrelated link of the week: What was the weirdest 911 call ever received?  (via)