If I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo? You know a lot about him. Life’s work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientation, the whole works, right? But … Read more
Today, the US government issued an export control directive banning access to Anthropic’s latest LLMs, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, by anyone who is a foreign national, including even Anthropic’s own employees. Consequently, Anthropic has since taken Fable 5 and … Read more
Mozilla’s new CEO recently announced their vision for the future: positioning Mozilla as “the world’s most trusted software company” with AI at its centre. As someone who has spent nearly 15 years building and maintaining Waterfox, I understand the existential … Read more
The question Sheon Han poses — “Is Ruby a serious programming language?” — says a lot about what someone thinks programming is supposed to feel like. For some folks, if a tool feels good to use… that must mean it … Read more
Stephen Almond is the ICO’s executive director of regulatory risk. Yesterday, Google announced to organisations that use its advertising products, that from 16 February 2025, it will no longer prohibit them from employing fingerprinting techniques. Our response is clear: businesses … Read more
A response to “Erlang – overhyped or underestimated” There is a blog post about Erlang which recently cropped up. It is well written and puts forth some critique of the Erlang/OTP language. Naturally, I have a bias. I write a … Read more
Introduction Recently, the article “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”, by Martijn Braam, was published to criticize a few things regarding Flatpak. I want to go over the article and address some points that were raised. While Martijn, the author, contrasted … Read more
Jacob Kaplan-Moss has written a post about one of the most stressful things that can happen to you as a manager: when someone on your team is getting along well with the team, apparently trying their best, but unable to … Read more
Hi. I’ll make this as short as possible. The other day my post “a picture of me” was shared on another site and garnered a lot of attention, spawning a lengthy discussion there (which I appreciate but do not have … Read more
Both gave me a feeling for how the space works. To be clear, there is nothing particularly “distributed” about the apps themselves: they’re just normal react websites. The “distributedness” refers to where the state and the logic/permissions for updating the … Read more