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There’s a thing I find amazing about music that you can demonstrate with a pair of musicians who are about equally popular but have completely different sets of fans.

I’ve been reading a lot about fascism lately, some of the notable titles I recommend: Anne Applebaum Twilight of Democracy and Autocracy, Inc Ruth Ben-Ghiat Strongmen Heather Cox-Richardson How the South Won the Civil War Cass R.

Asking for help is unavoidable as a software engineer.

The apparent leap in the capabilities of large language models has been made possible by venture capitalists, persuaded by earnest but misguided entrepreneurs like Sam Altman, that given sufficient resources, the models could be evolved into generalized a…

I was chatting with Dan Lorenc from Chainguard (who I adore as a company) on Twitter about the trevails of patching open source software last week, and immediately thought of many stories-from-the-trenches I’ve accumulated during the past 25 years or so of

Now that I work remotely full time a large part of my day is spent, like most remote workers, in video calls.

Some time back in the ‘80s, I decided I needed a new fishing reel.

Policy for Language Evaluation and Selection In 2014, two languages qualify as industry standard Systems Programming Languages, C/C++ and Java.

I originally posted this article 01/15/2011 at my old blog, but owing to Matt Asay’s post I am compelled to post it again here Linux taking over “the desktop” In the past 10 years I must have seen a hundred articles titled along the lines of “Will/Has/Cou…

I recently took a position at a new company.

I hadn’t seen this post before, but it sums up my own feelings on a subject so well that I feel relieved knowing somebody has already done a better job of writing it than I could have done, and I don’t have to do anything. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog…

Over the past couple of weeks I’ve seen a handful of “Why Golang Sucks” articles.

Julia Evan’s article on becoming a kernel hacker reminds me of the the early 90s, when earnest young hackers dutifully ftp’d down the latest Linux kernel patch file and excitedly ran make config to see what new stuff had been added, the rebooted immediate…

I’m a little unusual in the software development profession in that I have a “serious” side hobby.

I enjoyed reading an article from a fellow named Ben Northrop.

In the past, passing –without-x-toolkit to the configure script for emacs was sufficient to get it to omit window system support from the build.

I used to keep a blog where I would write a combination of stories I thought were funny, along with occasional long rambling pieces about politics or technology.