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-...

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-...

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

"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 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

Simplicity is hard work. But in the long haul the person with a simpler system is gonna wipe the plate with you. Because they can change things when you are struggling to push elephants around. -- Rich Hickey

dwl - dwm for Wayland A hackable (~3200 line single .c file implementation) compositor for Wayland based on wlroots. codeberg.org/dwl/dwl #linux #wayland #wlroots

Being optimistic for technology rubenerd.com/being-optimi... #blog #technology

AI: Over-Promise + Under-Perform = Disillusionment and Blowback Fantasies die especially hard when the dream was over-hyped. charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/07/ai-o... #blog #ai #genai #llm

Type cat vmlinuz > /dev/audio to hear the Voice of God.

What to expect from Debian/trixie Debian v13 with codename trixie is scheduled to be published as new stable release on 9th of August 2025. michael-prokop.at/blog/2025/07... #blog #linux #debian

Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS - I say that’s freedom Police in Spain have reportedly started profiling people based on their phones; specifically, and surprisingly, those carrying [...] www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-gr... #privacy #surveillance #android #grapheneos

Tailwind is the worst of all worlds colton.dev/blog/tailwin... #blogs #webdev #css #html

Tailwind is the worst of all worlds colton.dev/blog/tailwin... #blogs #webdev #css #html

A tsunami of burnout and quitting, both quiet and loud, is on the horizon, but it's taboo to recognize it or mention it. That the system is broken because it breaks us is the taboo that is frantically enforced at all levels of narrative control. charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/01/i-qu...

Why a 14kB page can load much faster than a 15kB page endtimes.dev/why-your-web... #blog #webdev #webperf #javascript

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 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

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

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

LLMs and the framing of inevitability tomrenner.com/posts/llm-in... #blog #llm #ai

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

Measurement and Numbers blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/measure... #blog #tech

Over half of the time you spend working on a project is spent thinking, and no tool, no matter how advanced, can think for you. -- Richard P. Gabriel

Ask Ruben: do you use LLMs to write posts? rubenerd.com/ask-rubenerd... #blog #tech #ai

Learn Vim progressively yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/b... #cli #shell #vim #blog

Computers are a feeling blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/compute... #blog #technology

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

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

Weiler's Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

Plain Vanilla - an explainer for web development using only vanilla techniques. No tools, no frameworks — just HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. plainvanillaweb.com/index.html #webdev #html #css #javascript #programming

Writing Toy Software Is A Joy Why you should write more toy programs blog.jsbarretto.com/post/softwar... #blog #programming #softwaredevelopment

Why I don't ride the AI Hype Train mertbulan.com/2025/06/26/w... #blog #tech #ai #programming

"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/

I have a simple rule in life: If I don't understand something, it must be bad. -- Linus Torvalds

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

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...

"If you've ever worked on refactoring or improving performance in a software system, you've probably run into a particular frustration: abstraction-heavy codebases. What looks like neatly organized and modularized code often reveals itself as a labyrinth, with layers [...]" fhur.me/posts/2024/t...

Debugging time increases as a square of the program’s size. -- Chris Wenham

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

I have found that the reason a lot of people are interested in artificial intelligence is the same reason a lot of people are interested in artificial limbs: they are missing one. -- David Parnas

Today: Call it 'smart', 'intelligent', 'agile', or add 'powered by AI' to it and the very same thing will happen. I was about to add 'crypto' as well, but then I couldn't remember what that was all about, back in the days.