Virtual OS museum #

A blast from the past!

Github is badly made software #

An interesting and opinionated take on what makes good software. It’s always a surprise to me that billion dollar corporations can’t seem to make good software.

It turns out Claude Mythos might not be that big of a deal #

I know fairly little about cybersecurity, but this deep dive into what Mythos is doing was super interesting.

Lines of code measures complexity and liability #

The more we do with the less code, the better off we’ll be.

LLMs make individual coders faster, but the rest of the funnel is still slow #

A very interesting look at how individual pieces of work combine into a finished product. As usual, the mythical man month remains as such.

CLIPS #

I had never heard of CLIPS, but have played in some games with creating order systems for controllable characters. I didn’t realize how deep it went!

Hot reloading in C #

Every day I learn something new about C!

Conventional commits, and a better alternative #

I remember learning about conventional commits with semantic releases and thinking something was wrong with them. This is a nice formalisation.

Cory Doctorow on centaurs, reverse-centaurs, and class struggle #

I didn’t know of this article when I wrote my own, but I’m glad to see someone with such a large platform share these ideas.