Wow, the atmosphere looks fairly toxic at Automattic right now. It felt like it was just about the trademark dispute but clearly the craziness is running much deeper. This is concerning for WordPress future I think.

This is an important trait to have for a developer. If you're content of things working without knowing why and how they work, you're looking for a world of pain later.

It's actually unsurprising, all those tech and crypto bros have assets in jeopardy if some regulation is applied to their industry. No wonder they'd support the one with the most libertarian agenda after the current administration which did look into antitrust cases and increased regulation (even though marginally).

Definitely this. Our cognitive capacity is limited, we'd better not deplete it due to complexity before we even reach the core of the problem at hand.

Nice article showing the steps to port Rust code to run on deeply embedded systems. It highlights the difficulties and caveats of such a task.