A good reminder that Linux based systems can be slimmed down quite a bit. Can come in handy for specific devices.

I still wish our craft would practice pair and ensemble programming more. Somehow it's been years and it doesn't really take off unfortunately.

What a surprise... It turns out it's very easy to manipulate AI "search". Something which operates of statistical similarity to queries, who knew it could be manipulated. 🙄

This is really interesting stuff that C++26 brings.

The latest move by the US government treating LLMs like dangerous weapons tells something about the geopolitical moment. Can we collectively raise to the challenge and build on cooperation instead? It'd be a much better position than assuming governments or big companies will make the right choices for everyone else in isolation.

People excited by accumulating so much wealth (on paper) are clearly showing sociopathic traits...

Indeed, the intermediate steps in an animation have to make sense too. Too often we think about the start and end point but miss the quality of the transition.

Long, rich, and sourced piece. Or why the current gold rush aims at accelerating wealth accumulation of a few to the expense of everyone else. If the plans work as intended, the outcome won't look good.

I like this idea. It'd be nice if more websites felt like little town squares.

This is a good list of questions. Never forget you need to assess the company you're applying at. To often candidates forget to do it.

How do you like our particular brand of dystopia? That's what you get for using proprietary data farming game I guess.

It's definitely easier not having to scale at all. Which is what you get when you design for local first / client side.

This piece asks a very profound question in fact. If you're in a workplace where senior management allows and pushes everyone to get deluded about the real capabilities of those tools, how do you later move forward and rebuild trust?

Interesting read, this is really tricky to measure such latency. It looks like we might have room for improvements on latency still. Curious to see if the proposed fixes will make it in kwin.

Interesting family of testing and debugging tools indeed. I should definitely reach out to those more.

In part useful, in part satire I think. Still it gives a good idea of various governance models in FOSS communities.

There's really something nasty at play. Those coding agents are clearly not insulated from the system enough and to easy to manipulate to exfiltrate sensitive information.

Queues are not magic. If they're unbounded you're in for a world of pain as load increases.

Sometimes, you got to deliver the bad news... It's healthy if you feel uneasy about it though.

Indeed, when people say "users don't care about quality" (tests or otherwise), this is mostly folklore. As soon as something goes wrong they'll care.