Reading postmortems
I love reading postmortems. They're educational, but unlike most educational docs, they tell an ente...
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Steve Yegge's prediction record
I try to avoid making predictions1. It's a no-win proposition: if you're right, hindsight bias mak...
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 ...
It takes a village
As a prolific maintainer of several dozen FOSS projects, I’m often asked how I
can get so much...
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...
Status update, October 2022
After a few busy and stressful months, I decided to set aside October to rest.
Of course, for me, re...
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...
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...
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...
🚨 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...
Annotate Your Screenshots Without Photoshop
I was putting together docs for a feature last week. Screenshot looked good, but the button I was do...
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...