LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-codin... #ai #genai #llm #programming

Debian 13 is out: www.debian.org/News/2025/20... I've been using Debian as my main OS both on servers and desktops for over 20 years now. It's one of the very rare things in this world that has stayed consistently good throughout all those years.

There is no secret herbal medicine that prevents all disease sitting out in the open if you just follow the right Facebook groups. There is no AI coding revolution available if you just start vibing. You are not missing anything. Trust yourself. You are enough. colton.dev/blog/curing-...

To the privileged, equality feels like oppression.

I'm using this shell shortcut a lot - you can use Alt+. to insert the last argument from your previous command into the command you're currently typing. #cli #shell #linux #unix

Learning basic electronics by building fireflies a64.in/posts/learni... #blog #electronics

"It is the opinion of the Board that Large Language Models (LLMs), herein referred to as Slop Generators, are unsuitable for use as software engineering tools, particularly in the Free and Open Source Software movement." asahilinux.org/docs/project... #llm #ai #genai #linux

"Great news, boss! We invented this new tool that allows nontechnical people to write code in English! Now anyone can deploy applications, and we don't have to hire all those expensive developers!" "Wow, show it to me!" "OK here it is. We call it COBOL." news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4429...

It's rude to show AI output to people distantprovince.by/posts/its-ru... #blog #ai #llm

If you own a computing device outright, you should be able to make any level of software modification you desire. hardware manufacturers should not be allowed to absolutely restrict distribution of software to their own channels under the guise of safety. medhir.com/blog/right-t...

The trickle-down theory

The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything notashelf.dev/posts/curse-... #blog #programming #softwaredevelopment

We are destroying software antirez.com/news/145 #blog #programming #hacking #softwaredevelopment

To prevent git from finishing the current commit/operation, your editor needs to exit with a non-zero status. In vim, you can use :cq to do that. #git #vim #linux #cli

Using zip bombs to protect your server idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb... #blog #web #selfhosting

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it. -- Douglas Crockford

What if we made advertising illegal? simone.org/advertising/ #blog #tech

putting an AI element, which is the equivalent of an impulsive, immature child, into a car, what could go wrong? www.theverge.com/news/706498/...

How i use my terminal jyn.dev/how-i-use-my... #cli #shell #linux #productivity

What I learned today: conflict is nessesary to generate a new personal perspective! #gamedev

Harper – an open-source, privacy-friendly alternative to Grammarly writewithharper.com #tools #opensource #foss

If actions by these bad actors accelerate the rate at which people lose trust in these systems and lead to the AI bubble popping faster then they have my full support. The entire space is just bad actors complaining about other bad actors while [...] news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4454... #ai #llm

"You might be asking: why did you rewrite tmux in Rust? And yeah, I don’t really have a good reason. It’s a hobby project. Like gardening, but with more segfaults." richardscollin.github.io/tmux-rs/

Writing code was never the bottleneck ordep.dev/posts/writin... #programming #softwaredevelopment #blog

This is really bad. EU is planning a new mass surveillance law that includes mandating data retention, built-in backdoors, sanctioning non-compliant services and is asking you for feedback. EU citizens, please give them your feedback.

Does anyone else find this thing as ugly as hell? design.google/library/expr...

How convenience kills curiosity "[...] Those friction-filled experiences are nearly extinct now. We’ve optimized them away in the name of convenience, and something important has been lost in the transition." www.joanwestenberg.com/how-convenie...

Product Pseudoscience blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/product... #programming #softwaredevelopment #blog

"There is an argument to be made that the market buys bug-filled, inefficient software about as well as it buys pristine software. And one of them is the cheapest software you could make. It's similar to the 'Market for Lemons' story. In short [...]" news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397...

Cognitive load is what matters minds.md/zakirullin/c... #programming #softwaredevelopment #blog

Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979) www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

Bet on systems, not sparks www.joanwestenberg.com/bet-on-syste... #blog #programming #softwaredevelopment

Be mindful of what you make easy blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/be-mind... #blog #programming #softwaredevelopment

The next level of quackery.

Anyway this is how I feel about AI. It's useful for a lot of things - live scene/object recognition for the blind, subtitling, minor generative amusements, translation services - all sorts. BUT it becomes so very dangerous when used where it shouldn't be: Law. Engineering. Diplomacy. Medicine.

Mini-coding adventure: Explorations with a command line browser heyloura.com/2025/03/03/m... #blog #programming #rss #javascript

Web search is a cesspit of algorithm-driven propaganda hamishcampbell.com/web-searches... #web #search #enshittification #openweb

3,200% CPU utilization "I always thought of race conditions as corrupting the data or deadlocking. I never though it could cause performance issues. But it makes sense, you could corrupt the data in a way that creates an infinite loop." josephmate.github.io/2025-02-26-3...

"Fixing" lists theadhocracy.co.uk/note/fixing-... #html #css #webdev #accessibility #blog

A TypeScript-types-only WebAssembly runtime "This engine was built to service a project that aimed to demonstrate why Doom can't run in TypeScript types. Well. The funny thing is.. It can." github.com/MichiganType... #programming #typescript #wasm

When FreeTube is blocked use ytfzf redterminal.org/gemlog/2025-... #blog #youtube #cli #tools

Writing a regular expression engine twomorecents.org/writing-rege... #blog #programming #regex

JSON has become today's machine-readable output format (on Unix) utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/b... #blog #linux #unix #json

Using my own DNS resolver www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/usi... #blog #internet #privacy #dns

On running systemd-nspawn containers benjamintoll.com/2022/02/04/o... #blog #linux #containers #sysadmin

Examples of great URL design blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/example... #programming #webdev #blog

Google is on the wrong side of history www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... #blog #enshittification #google #ai

This is a clever optimization. It's impressive how well Bluesky is performing overall. jazco.dev/2025/02/19/i...