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

There’s a reason boring-wozniak is disallowed

Listened to an interview at 120% speed. Wondering if the interviewer is on drugs 🤦🏽

In defense of self-policing creator communities

I read Steve Yegge’s new book on coding agents. I was interested because agents aren’t yet a net positive for me. But Steve seems to have success with his “beads” local issue tracker and all. And he’s famous from the past.

Huh. Fowl for p2p secure port forwarding is super sweet. Nice to not need sshd. github.com/meejah/fowl

Just learned about price discipline — “use the cheapest supplier when it doesn’t matter anyway”. Is there an analogous concept in product? “Don’t spend effort on tech that affects MAU only marginally”? “Effort discipline”? “Be careful what you care about”?

Sounds plausible. And reposted by @medcrisis.bsky.social who I trust. In Stanford, does "contrarianism" mean truth doesn't matter, only popularity? Because that's how Huberman's behavior looks to me.

FutureLock TL;DR: select! has a nasty interaction with async locks. When one future becomes ready, select suspends the other future, but that future may be holding a lock. So tasks can deadlock with themselves. 1/3

Against overmedicalization youtu.be/OQ7g1lQ26s0 @medcrisis.bsky.social

“Fil-C: A Memory-Safe C Implementation”, LWN (lwn.net/SubscriberLi...). On HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4573... On Lobsters: lobste.rs/s/mg0aur/fil... #FilC #MemorySafety #CHERI #C #Programming #Clang #LLVM

Great podcast, very real

ooooooo rusty burn

the spirit of Erlang is evolving

Looks like it’ll be a beautiful documentary. A story that needs to be told www.kickstarter.com/projects/163...

Proud of the Python Software Foundation for doing the right thing and standing up for their people, even when it’s hard. Especially when it’s hard.

“Are you in favor of the constitution, or not?” Seems very simple the way he puts it.

people who think their LLM chats are basically a conversation make me feel like "oh, wow, you're fooled by the puppet bird" the truth is there is an arm inside that bird and it belongs to a much stranger creature just out of your view

They let you translate from/to Gen Z 😭

news.kagi.com is kinda nice, and pretty calm 🩵

If you have the PayPal app on your phone, you have Honey inactive but loaded on your phone 🤮 Let's see what life is like without the PayPal app

wake up babe, a new (old) paper on "artificial intelligence" just dropped! it's got that extra tasty vintage typography too (1976) fulltext: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

“On building systems for futures we don’t know” -> extensive architecture/business premortems typically lead to architecture/business that’s resilient against things that never came up in the premortem

That website :o posthog.com

I can never sleep again thanks to @stanzipotenza.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/EQFgb...

Liquid Glass tap areas are huge. What a relief — to not have to meticulously position my finger! In contrast, I’m hugely frustrated at the mental effort I put into the YouTube app, and even with that effort, it does entirely unwanted things on the daily

I really resonated with: "I think I’m less interested in my own happiness (whatever that means) than I am interested in doing work that feels worth doing" - @charity.wtf reflects on her career charity.wtf/2025/07/09/t...

Damn this is good

Fascinating how divisive Liquid Glass is — even on iOS.

What if you could ditch the prepared slides and adapt your talk to the audience in real time? That's what I got to experiment with yesterday at the Frontify software talks meetup in St. Gallen. My talk was about technical leadership and facilitating better architectural decision-making. Instead ->