Drew DeVault's blog

Hacker News (aka HN) is a link aggregator where “hackers”1 gather to discuss technology, politics, and anything which “good hackers would find interesting”.

The role of AI tools (LLMs, mainly) in Linux is under discussion, or it was, until Linus Torvalds “put his foot down” in support of the use of AI in Linux kernel development.

The masterwork of Terry A.

Following up on my earlier announcement that I was forking Vim, I’m happy to announce the first release of my fork today: Vim Classic 8.3.0.

I redesigned my blog!

No comment on this PR may mention the following topics: Long-term social or economic impact of LLMs The environmental impact of LLMs Anything to do with the copyright status of LLM output Moral judgements about people who use LLMs We have asked the modera…

Back when Copilot first came out, I immediately disliked it.

Kiwi Farms is a web forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities.

15 years ago, on December 11th, 2010, at the bold age of 17, I wrote my first blog post on the wonders of the Windows Phone 7 on Blogspot.

So apparently rsync is slop now.

Vim is important to me.

I’ve gotten a lot of flack throughout my career over my disdain towards test-driven development (TDD).

As you may recall, circa 2022-2023 I was working on a microkernel written in Hare named Helios.

You might have seen an article making the rounds this week, about a young man who ended his life after ChatGPT encouraged him to do so.

Some time ago, I noticed some new organization called FUTO popping up here and there.

US politics has been pretty fascist lately.

In the wake of the largest supply-chain attack in history, the JavaScript community could have a moment of reckoning and decide: never again.

I’ve been on the lookout for a scripting language which can be neatly embedded into Hare programs.

Last week, Armin and I worked together on the latest release of Himitsu, a “secret storage manager” for Linux.

Today, we’re looking at two case studies in how to respond when reactionaries appear in your free software community.

Tech workers have long resisted the suggestion that we should be organized into unions.

My spouse and I are on vacation in Japan, spending half our time seeing the sights and the other half working remotely and enjoying the experience of living in a different place for a while.

As of late, most of us have been reading the news with a sense of anxious trepidation.

I had a fun idea for a small project this weekend, and so I quickly put it together over the couple of days.

Notice: linkhut has started to use generative AI tools upstream.

This blog post is expressing personal experiences and opinions and doesn’t reflect any official policies of SourceHut.

I’d like to write about intellectual property in depth, in this first of a series of blog posts on the subject.

Good news: it appears that Jack Dorsey’s FOSDEM talk has been cancelled!

Update: Dorsey’s talk was cancelled!

Update: Dorsey’s talk was cancelled!

In November of last year, I wrote Richard Stallman’s political discourse on sex, which argues that Richard Stallman, the founder of and present-day voting member of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF), endorses and advocates for a…

Ugh.

We are living through an interesting moment in source-available software.1 The open source movement has always had, and continues to have, a solid grounding in grassroots programmers building tools for themselves and forming communities around them.