"I don’t care if you’re vegan, vegetarian, flexitarian, or a meat-lover — it’s your motivation that matters, not your diet." On climate change, animal welfare, the necessity of reducing meat consumption to address both problems, and how massively neglected this problem space is. A great read.

The next book we'll read in the Software Internals Book Club is Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces. We'll read it in three chunks. Discussion leaders will be selected only for one chunk at a time and we'll take a few weeks break in between chunks to regroup. eatonphil.com/2026-ostep.h...

It was a null pointer that caused crash loops that then caused metastable failures. The attempt to recovery unintentionally overloaded the system. I think this case could be added to this paper www.usenix.org/system/files...

This is the best thing written about monorepos I have ever read blog.swgillespie.me/posts/monore...

Sick of being taken advantage of by OTHER PACKAGES?! Use python package {tariff} to show those packages WHO IS BOSS. Make Reinventing The Wheel Great Again! pypi.org/project/tari...

if you know anyone who claims to be concerned about climate change and still sympathizes with NIMBY arguments, please send them this article

the study on safety of single stair buildings by pew charitable trusts and the center for building in north america (@stephenjacobsmith.com) is now live www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

1/11 Today’s technical post is about Bluesky itself. The platform is close to reaching 32 million users, and with that, it has started facing new technical challenges. cc @calvobianco.com @martinelli.ch @sivalabs.in @iamsoham.bsky.social @dashaun.com @jamesward.com @tomcools.be @ilopmar.bsky.social

Interesting FTC sued Pepsi and not (presumably) Walmart, who almost certainly coerced Pepsi into the deal. I suppose it's easier to prove discrimination by comparing Pepsi's prices across retailers. And it still hurts Walmart by showing other suppliers they'll face consequences for giving in.

Kyle Cascade - How to Actually Migrate Complex Systems in Infrastructure https://buff.ly/4g5WgYx

Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases | sean goedecke

How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths. About how these AI tools really work and how they could be the start of the return of software, as a craft. Based on a guest post by @addyosmani.bsky.social. Read it here: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-ai-wil...

TIL that the NFPA's piece on point access blocks - Single Stair, Many Questions - was their top read article for the entire year. Good! Codes are a large reason why our housing is so poor in quality and outcomes in the US. www.nfpa.org/news-blogs-a...

Buckle up because we're banging into the new year with my annual retrospective of the last year in databases! Highlights include license change blowback, Databricks vs. Snowflake gangwar, @duckdb.org's shotgun weddings, and buying a quarterback to impress your lover: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...

I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning

My honest opinion on Python installation/environments/packaging is that it's...Not That Bad? But people constantly shit on it, so then I wonder if it's actually that years of figuring out how to deal with it has made me lose all reasonable perspective on how fucked it really is

TIL about python-build-standalone. This part of the linked blog post helped me understand why I should care

Evidence has demonstrated this effect in numerous cities now. I understand why it sounds weird to say, 'building a bunch of fancy new townhouses and skyscrapers will make housing more affordable!' but it simply appears to be true.

This is a REALLY good interactive demo of Queueing! | An interactive study of queueing strategies – Encore Blog

I put off migrating from Lastpass to Bitwarden for an embarrassingly long time. It's all the more embarrassing now because I finally did it and it literally took 15 minutes

A list of sort-of-algorithmic general feeds that might make your Bluesky experience more fun: Thread 🧵 🪡 1/5

For my Austin TX followers: The city is collecting feedback on a proposed redesign of Congress Ave between the Capitol and Cesar Chavez to make it basically much nicer and less car-centric. Please take the survey at the bottom of the page to indicate your support storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6fe9...

Had a rare day without any meetings today, so I got to spend a lot of time in 'The Pit'

stop the presses

Are y'all ready for my first hot take? Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse was goddamn delightful

Just setting up my bluesky