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I'm a big advocate of Empirical Software Engineering. I wrote a talk on it. I wrote a 6000-word post covering one controversy. I spend a lot of time reading...
Adventures in vintage computers and retrogaming. Includes articles on classic games and obsolete computers.
rant and building of the slop YOLO project to detect other slop YOLO projects
SAML, the XML-based authentication protocol that birthed the SSO industry, is fundamentally flawed due to XML complexity, canonicalization issues, enveloped signatures, and design ossification, making it vulnerable to…
Certainly the industry is transforming, however, the people and organizations falling into the trap of no longer reading and writing code only do so at their peril.
GNOME and KDE have started to consider LLM policies, and we should talk about what this is really about. KDE caught everyone's attention first by...
We've come a long, long way together. You changed. Where do we go from here?
The one where I pen some premium rage bait.
Technology needs another revolution. It’s just not the one the industry seems hellbent on delivering.
I have been somewhat hounded since February, perhaps as late as March about a project that needs yocto skills. Like most embedded ...
Why it is irresponsible to continue to frame the use of AI-powered software as “just a tool.”
They gave me a Claude subscription and told me to get tokenmaxxing, so I tried to give it a fair shot.
Three cases where Nixpkgs exercised power without clear rules: a commit-bit removal, a pull request closed by headcount, and a review blocked indefinitely.