I used to write articles like this for my blog. There's a reason they really don't exist anymore: First is that documentation has gotten much better. A lot of

I used to write articles like this for my blog. There's a reason they really don't exist anymore: First is that documentation has gotten much better. A lot of times a repository will have examples alongside it. Man pages, help menus, and entire statically generated documentation sites have all advanced this quite a bit - and much of what they do share space with what I used to write about. It's worth mentioning that a lot of times, I was writing to a very specific end goal. Documentation sites will usually what you through what I did and then some. Second is that Linux userlands have diverged a lot. There's not a ton of standardization around userspace tooling, so it makes writing an article (that needs to be updated) an up-hill battle. Third, Linode and DigitalOcean use these kinds of articles as PR. They're high quality, often versioned, and help users understand broader contexts as well. So, are they dead? Yes, in a sense. They inspired a lot though, so in that way I think they still live on.