This blog covers design, philosophy and reflections from a life long search for increased computing agency. It is the high level counterpart to the...

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

Click Anywhere to see the faces rotate. Try not to scream. - An Optical Illusion and Explaination

Hot-housing promising youngsters works—but not as well as you might think

Answering some of your most-asked questions about Steam HW

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed.

But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in…

You may recall the news last month around no one was left on Debian's data protection team and other volunteer staffing challenges with different Debian efforts in the past

Learn more about an often-overlooked bottleneck in scaled postgres systems: postmaster contention. This deep dive into a production issue highlights how this surfaces and explains the underlying causes.

(ICE) is surveying the commercial advertising technology market for tools capable of supplying location data and large scale analytics.

First, the good part of the Anthropic ads: they are funny, and I laughed.

But I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest. Our most important principle for ads says that we won’t do exactly this; we would obviously never run ads in…

Data centers are cool, everyone should have one.

Are LLMs the final blow in the war against Wirth's law?

Catherine (Whitequark)’s recent observations on poorly-engineered firmware reminded me of a few mistakes I’ve seen in vendors’ CPUs; some unimportant and others surprisingly bad. Since I’ve never seen these widely discussed, here’s some discussion and links…

Adobe Animate will no longer be available on Adobe.com starting March 1, 2026.

The kernel's swap subsystem is a complex and often unloved beast. It is also a critical compon [...]

You can captivate someone not by what you say, but by how you listen.

BMW filed a patent for a proprietary screw that looks like the BMW logo. They say it looks cool, we’re worried it’s going to stifle repairs.