Reading postmortems I love reading postmortems. They're educational, but unlike most educational docs, they tell an ente... Feb 10
Steve Yegge's prediction record I try to avoid making predictions1. It's a no-win proposition: if you're right, hindsight bias mak... Feb 10
What's worked in Computer Science: 1999 v. 2015 In 1999, Butler Lampson gave a talk about the past and future of “computer systems research”. Here ... Feb 10
It takes a village As a prolific maintainer of several dozen FOSS projects, I’m often asked how I can get so much... Feb 10
Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel? I am known to be a bit of a polemic when it comes to Rust. I will be forthright with the fact that I... Feb 10
Status update, October 2022 After a few busy and stressful months, I decided to set aside October to rest. Of course, for me, re... Feb 10
Trump Mobile’s T1 Phone is apparently still coming, but it’ll be uglier and more expensive Trump Mobile is already failing to deliver on some early promises, according to the latest report fr... Feb 10
The State Department is scrubbing its X accounts of all posts from before Trump's second term The State Department is wiping the post history of its X accounts and making it so you'll have t... Feb 10
SpaceX is pivoting to focus on a moon base before Mars Elon Musk says SpaceX has shifted its near-term priorities from Mars settlement plans to building wh... Feb 10
🚨 BREAKING: AI Is Coming for Your Job (But First, It Needs to Figure Out Why Your Code Works) 🚨 > Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Semicolon The 2 AM Incident That Star... Feb 10
Annotate Your Screenshots Without Photoshop I was putting together docs for a feature last week. Screenshot looked good, but the button I was do... Feb 10
More pollution and higher energy costs: critics condemn Trump’s anti-environment agenda US courts, scholars and Democrats are pushing back against the president’s aggressive drive to boost... Feb 10