Mar 16, 2025 from nixCraft Ubuntu to Explore Rust-Based “uutils” as Potential GNU Core Utilities Replacement In a move that has sparked significant discussion within the Ubuntu Linux fan-base and community, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has announced its intention to explore the potential replacem...
Mar 15, 2025 from Julio Merino (jmmv.dev) Bazel at Snowflake two years in Two and a half years ago, I joined Snowflake to help their mission of migrating to Bazel. I spent the first year of this period as an Individual Contributor (IC) diving deep into the migration task...
Mar 14, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Can AI Tell You What You Need (But Don't Want) To Hear? In Which I Question Whether AI Will Help Us Stay Grounded
Mar 13, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Why Don't You Walk Daily? In Which I Persuade you to do something you already know you should be doing
Mar 11, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Interesting Facts About my Father In Which I Share Stories about my Father
Mar 10, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software SCaLE 22x NOTE: When I initially wrote this article I used “they/them” pronouns when referring to Hazel Weakly instead of the preferred “she/her” pronouns shared in her speaker notes. People have pointed out...
Mar 10, 2025 from micheal@ecliptik.com Surfing GlobalTalk with a Macintosh 512Ke While I’ve discussed the origins of my Macintosh 512Ke and the enhancements I’ve done over the past year. What really kicked off my interest in using it more than just Zoom background discussion pi...
Mar 10, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog My Book List 2024-2025 A dive into my reading from the past 18 months, featuring highlights across science, history, philosophy, and fiction.
Mar 09, 2025 from Jordi Villar 2025W09 It’s been a while since the last time I published a post with the list of articles I’ve read. This one contains the highlights from the past few months. We Were Wrong About GPUs — Fly.io invested i...
Mar 09, 2025 from seize the dev Parsing JSON in Forty Lines of Awk A single-function JSON parser for the POSIX shell.
Mar 08, 2025 from Karl Bartel's Website Stack Traces are Underrated Stack Traces are Underrated I Love Stack Traces When something goes wrong in a program, many languages will spit out a stack trace with lots of useful information. Here's an example from one of my ...
Mar 08, 2025 from Karl Bartel's Website Stack Traces are Underrated Stack Traces are Underrated I Love Stack Traces When something goes wrong in a program, many languages will spit out a stack trace with lots of useful information. Here's an example from one of my ...
Mar 08, 2025 from Sophia Willows' Blog How to write robust webhook handlers Webhooks are surprisingly hard to process correctly. Almost every software project I’ve worked on has needed to process webhooks from third party vendors, and almost every team I’ve worked with has...
Mar 07, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software Some Thoughts on Mozilla, Apple and Linux Mint This post was inspired by the fact that I am going to be traveling and I needed a new laptop. I am not a “laptop” guy. I much prefer to use desktops, even though I do connect an external screen to ...
Mar 07, 2025 from Londogard Blog Mini: DeepSeek’s smallpond - a distributed duckdb There has been a lot of buss around DeepSeek (R1) and their Open Source mission, and lately they released their full stack to train State-of-the-Art LLM’s. One of the tools is a Distributed Data Pr...
Mar 07, 2025 from Julia Evans Standards for ANSI escape codes Hello! Today I want to talk about ANSI escape codes. For a long time I was vaguely aware of ANSI escape codes (“that’s how you make text red in the terminal and stuff”) but I had no real understand...
Mar 06, 2025 from Coding Horror Let's Talk About The American Dream A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work....
Mar 06, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Introducing My Notes System I've added a new notes system to my personal site to share book reviews, thoughts, and other content that doesn't necessarily fit the blog format.
Mar 05, 2025 from Gonçalo Valério Status of old PyPI projects: archived Since late January, the python package index (PyPI) supports archiving projects/packages. This is, in fact, a very welcome feature, since it clearly tells without any doubt when a package is no lon...
Mar 05, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software Why I Love the Fediverse I am not as much of a free software user as I was in the past. There was a time where almost all of the technology I used was open source. That is no longer the case (I am heavily invested in the A...
