Putting Linux Foundation on my email blocklist. I unsubscribed all but they can’t stop spamming me. Fuck you.

blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony... it was going to happen, death comes for us all. but man. what a legend

With all this talk of consciousness, which is just another word for magic, I thought I’d look back on my essay about magic (I mean engineering) from 2.5 years ago. It’s held up pretty well! apenwarr.ca/log/20230415

Oh no they wrapped our government building!

oh no, this goes way too hard

🎧 Nice to hear about culture change at Windows in the ‘10s. And about how it hugely impacted people’s lives

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🎙️ Interesting to hear Epstein ask advice on turning his network into money “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know”

i kinda see code bloat the same way i see entropy. it's an inevitable losing battle, but that doesn't mean it's not worth fighting to slow it down as much as possible. just because you can't build a bridge to last a billion years doesn't mean you shouldn't build it to last a century.

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"Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is." — Guindon "Maths is nature's way of showing you how fuzzy your writing is; "formal maths is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your maths is" — Leslie Lamport

you cannot trust anything that is on archive today, archive is, archive ph, etc. there is no accountability for it (anon owner), they host doxxing data and refuse to take it down, they alter things (defeating their one reason to exist), and they massively copyright infringe news sites etc.

contest is over, y'all. my colleague already won linkedin

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theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-... chat, are we cooked?

Come work with me! We're hiring a staff-level Rust engineer @directus.io . Greenfield federated query engine / backend-as-a-service, private preview coming soon. Big sense of ownership. We already ship a very successful product used by major enterprises and governments.

Outcome Engineering (via @charity.wtf): o16g.com

Food for thought in a changing world

Shame on @nytimes.com for publishing what seems like p-hacked pseudoscience.

Who needs SQL when you have Markdown 👀

Played a bit with Claude Code today, and discovered what I like about pi.dev: Pi streams output — CC can't. Follow along as AI thinks. Queue messages, or interrupt when you've seen enough.

Nice shot by AlphaPhoenix youtu.be/0rGaTwxWuz0

what the hell am I doing here? i don’t belong here

Schöner Podcast: DLF Amerika verstehen, mit einem Historiker.

Shoutout to @thoughtworks.com for having interesting media. They are consistently ahead of the curve AND free of bullshit. Don’t see that very often.

iPAddress dNSName does this cursed casing style have a name? www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5280

@genmon.fyi my current favorite "you can just do things" is a bit of a stretch, but apparently you can just build a successful software company for 20 years then use the proceeds to start a theater in Baltimore (for "research") and give the space away to artists for free bmoreart.com/2024/09/the-...

Lovely interview with a veteran engineer — regardless of how you feel about Clawdbot

Der letzte Arbeitstag, ohne dass ich es wusste Ich habe meine Karriere nicht geplant beendet. Sie ist einfach zu Ende gegangen – an einem Tag, an dem ich noch arbeitete, recherchierte, schrieb. Zwei Jahre später habe ich meine Zutrittskarte zurückgegeben. Dieser Text ist mein Abschied von einem…

Package Management is a Wicked Problem: nesbitt.io/2026/01/23/p...

Tried using MS Copilot for counting who is most cited by a paper. It completely excludes one commonly-cited author, John Power — probably because his surname is a common word? Bias is not cool.

Scheme, the ur programming language, is 50 years old, as Jason Hemann just reminded me.

Every Linux distro (including macOS) is just a different cinematic universe of gains/losses You’re more familiar with the enemy tactics of some distros, and you’re missing out on the flowers of another

“At some point, you have to have principles.”

I summarized my thoughts of my MiniJinja porting experience if you're curious. There is also a video linked in there with a narrated coding session sped up. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/14/mi...

I'm so excited for Wero — Europe's new modern payment system without card numbers that can be lost/hacked/sold/misused.

Short little nuggets to get you up to speed. This is a very readable blog that is not in the HTML default colours despite what it looks

computer Show Me Less Like This. show me Parisian streets and their denizens, show me futurist art and central american architecture. show me black forests and crystal pools, steady wildlife and bad poetry and confused yellow cabs. computer, show me the agonies of Men in love

Abstract monads, explained for people who eat food (A monad is a kind of bag that supports all 4 operations)

- nuanced advice for engineering leaders that’s hopefully timeless - some questions to self-assess where you currently are

Just listened to this episode of The Engineering Room with @charity.wtf and @davefarley77.bsky.social, extremely good! This part on managers being “shit umbrellas” hit home catastrophically for me. So rare (IME) for management to treat their underlings as adults.

🤔 “The reasonable person adapts themselves to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to themselves. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable person.” — George Bernard Shaw Proud of what my dad helped create :)

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Intriguing 👀

Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler (yes)

When X banned the European Commission's ad account in retaliation for a fine, it demonstrated the exact sort of capricious behavior the DSA is designed to stop www.platformer.news/x-eu-fine-ac...

Wow, Logitech mouse gestures work on Linux? Like even better than on Win/macOS? Is Linux going to become actually mainstream?

I finally got around to writing up my thoughts about the recent Cloudflare outage. surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/26/b...

Good security advice - and anti-advice www.hacklore.org/letter

2025 book of the year for technical leaders in software, and anyone who thinks product matters