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Nice! I made a "joke" key value store that uses HFS+ xattr file system attributes https://github.com/radiofreejohn/xattrkv

In the process I found a bug in one of the Darwin syscalls. Still not fixed :(

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That's awesome (though frustrating w.r.t the last tidbit). I always find working on 'hacky' or 'pointless' things often yields the most new knowledge and insight. I'm reminded of Jim Weirich's 'Y Not: Adventures in Functional Programming' talk.

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