[blog] Packaging Dart binaries as .deb and .rpm etc. nFPM makes it very easy to put your binaries into a Debian .deb or RedHat Package Manager .rpm file. I also took the opportunity to slide in the new(ish) Dart cross compilation capabilities rather than using Dockerised build for arm7 and riscv64.

Kent Beck at @yowconf.bsky.social Sydney: nobody knows what programming will look like in two years — "even getting to 'it depends' would be progress." If you're feeling anxious or grief-stricken about where our industry is heading, I wrote this for you. 👉 leaddev.com/ai/nobody-kn...

My lovely friend @santoshyadav.dev included some of my words and thoughts on to his 'Contribute to open source - acomprehensive guide for everyone' resource with my experiences and tips on contributing as a designer to open source www.santoshyadav.dev/blog/contrib...

Which doesn't indicate that coding agents aren't useful. They obviously are super useful. My read is that it indicates the obvious fact that software development velocity is dominated by factors other than the writing of code itself.

Fortunately @juderogers.bsky.social and @thequietus.com are here to put Edge of Darkness into perspective. 🙏 thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Who do I know that’s at Container Days London today?

"The valley and the monomyth," by me for @negroniventurestudios.com. Every pitch deck is a Hero's Journey. Silicon Valley's greatest export isn't technology, nit's storytelling. The facts don't change the world. The stories do. negroniventurestudios.com/2026/02/09/t...

So many developers have sent me that Anthropic skills/mastery case study that I realized I should ungate what I *already wrote* about this: beginning principles to design workflows that work *with* your mind, not against it, & protect your problem-solving www.fightforthehuman.com/cognitive-he...

"...we're now operating in the slopocene, where people don't care about prior art because they can get their model to barf it up on demand; like little chicks being fed by mother owl." Me just now in a Signal chat.

What fresh hell is this? I'm guessing the GitHub PM for Discussions has a number to make, and the only way to do that is dark patterns 🤦‍♂️ #e14n

AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

[blog] January 2026 Mixer repair, skiing in Les Arcs, Burns night at the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, and the usual pupdate and solar diary.

[blog] Skiing in Paradiski (Les Arcs 2000)

@cstross.bsky.social #HaltingState

I was totally unfamiar with the term Brownian Ratchet, and now it's basically come to rule my life. Thanks multiclaude :) www.distributedthoughts.org/brownian-rat...

The Shingles vaccine has outperformed all expectations. Why? erictopol.substack.com/p/spotlight-...

[blog] Agentic Product Development and Theory of Constraints Coding is no longer the constraint. It's now cheaper than ever to make software. But there are supply side constraints on innovation, and getting apps to market. There's also a demand side constraint on adoption in an attention economy ...

AI is moving fast. For leaders, the question isn’t just what can AI do? It’s how do we do it safely? Find my full article here → https://matthewskelton.com/blog/designing-ai-enabled-apps-for-minimal-harm-a-mandate-for-senior-leaders

📖 Big news! We just released the first five chapters of our new book, Hello Data Science. It is a fully open-access resource written for beginners. Please help us spread the word! A few points about the book are below 👇 🔗 www.hellodata.science #rstats #datascience #tidyverse

Nikita Prokopov points out that they almost exactly mirror the approach which Apple’s Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines advised against back in 1992 tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

[blog] Milo cancer diary part 22 - remission again CHOP #4 has worked, and Milo's scan today shows that he's in remission again (before even getting his Epirubicin). With some notes on using an online pharmacy, and ManyPets being speedy settling claims.

Population Density Map Of Paris vs London See 100+ more: brilliantmaps.com/populatio...

[blog] December 2025 - A couple of live music gigs, Hackers in the House, health & fitness stuff, washing machine repair, and some new IT bits; along with the usual pupdate and solar diary.

Nvidia have ended Linux support for my 'Pascal' GTX 1050 Ti GPU. I've been able to fit an RTX 5050 card in its place, though the process was problematic due to driver issues. And I'm still concerned that it can only be limited to 110W when my passive cooling is rated up to 75W.

This problem also bit me on Bluefin. It was extremely annoying, but finally got me to upgrade my 8 year old card hackaday.com/2025/12/26/n...

The conceit was always that Russia needed access to Sebastopol at any cost, when Novorossiysk was just along the coast. And now they've effectively lost both ports 🤦🏼‍♂️ So much death, suffering and destruction over an entirely misconceived strategy.

Hope. But also upheaval, as the power structures reshape around a new world order defined by a new energy economy.

This is the best @fafo.fm episode for a while, really enjoyed the storytelling format.

As we head into the new year, I want to share an article by Andy Warfield called "A little bit uncomfortable". It touches on a topic we don't talk about nearly enough--vulnerability and the relationship between fear and growth. allthingsdistributed.com/2025/12/a-little-bit-uncomfortable.html

Let's build hyper-personalized AI-powered software that avoids the attention hijacking anti-patterns that defined so much of the last decade of software design - here's our manifesto with principles on how we can do that - more thoughts on my blog: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/r...

A few years ago at a smart home event I asked the audience about using connected baby monitors or cameras to watch their babies. I asked who was using them and a bunch of hands shot up. Then I started asking people to put their hands down when I reached the age when they would take the monitor away.

Your intellectual fly is open bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/y...

[blog] Milo cancer diary part 21 – CHOP #4 A scan has found inflamed lymph nodes, so Milo's starting chemo again with his 4th (modified) CHOP protocol.

icymi my company @redmonk.com is hosting drinks tonight at reinvent with duckbill and heavybit. we're getting away from the strip, having a chill time with nice people at Atomic Liquors, a storied drinking establishment. It has an excellent beer list and immaculate vibes. 7pm onwards atomic.vegas

I'm starting to wonder if compilers targeting mainstream PC architectures like x86/Arm might be far better at optimising than those for (older?) MCUs. Today's Advent of Compiler Optimisations xania.org/202512/03-mo... is the antithesis of blog.thestateofme.com/2013/10/12/t...

[blog] the usual pupdate and solar diary along with music, comedy, and worn out old boots. Plus some retro computer stuff (where I finally assemble my RC2014 Picasso), and signs that VR practice isn't improving my real world clays shooting :(

[blog] Clocking on at the Outrage Factory Our online discourse is the victim of industrial scale pollution, and the incentives are being aligned in the wrong direction. Rather than polluters being penalised there's now an entire industry that's paid to pollute.

If you’re going to and from rail stations in TfL’s Oystercard area, the contactless fare for the EXACT SAME journey can be dramatically cheaper than if you pay for a rail ticket

Been sketching out four things we need to build collective knowledge systems that are interoperable: permanence, provenance, permissions and placement. Very much enjoying implementing these via initiatives like @rogue-scholar.bsky.social and @tangled.org as well! anil.recoil.org/notes/princi...

So much "oof" in this article.

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

My work on counterpublics and related topics demos.co.uk/research/ver...

You can't force the pace of change. The pace of change is determined by the amount of psychological safety. #BVSSH

Everyone is arguing about AI Safety vs. Acceleration. I’m looking at the Skeptics—the ones arguing about the math. They argue the $1 trillion value equation isn't balancing out. Here is why: www.jsnover.com/blog/2025/11... #AI

Today we're publishing our list of recommendations on how to build long-lived IoT devices. We're trying to address the factors that lead to your smart thermostat losing functionality or even dying altogether when the manufacturer decides to stop supporting it. It doesn't have to be this way.

#uksnow RH16 3/10

At #KubeCon 2025 I was struck by what a huge concern networking remains within the @cncf.bsky.social & Kubernetes ecosystem. For this @redmonk.com post, I reflect on my takeaways redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

[blog] it can take some time for less popular architectures (like RISC-V) to find their way into Docker official image manifests, so some extra testing is needed to avoid breaking Continuous Delivery pipelines by merging Dependabot PRs for incomplete images.

Curious about what happened between @python.org & the National Science Foundation? Me too, so I asked PSF executive director @eximious.bsky.social onto @redmonk.com's MonkCast to discuss the situation & share her perspective redmonk.com/blog/2025/11... youtube.com/shorts/_DDWk...

Good morning 😊 Yes, Sir Clive hated that the Spectrum was popular because of the games and a C5 could never go this fast, but I had a lot of fun making this tribute to Sir Clive Sinclair ZX Spectrum 👍 Animation made in Blender, sountrack made in Studio one #zxspectrum #retrogaming #8bitgaming