i love ssh

Wednesday, December 26, 2001, at 04:20AM

By Eric Richardson

I love the fact that I just upgraded the firmware on my router without losing my ssh connection to the host my email's on. Downtime was probably a minute or two, then ssh just figured things back out. At school I used to move my notebook between rooms, plug back in, and keep my session. That was always fun.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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