A lot of my readers call me a cynic when I say things like “you should do things that make your manager happy” or “big tech companies get to decide what projects you work on”. Alex Wennerberg put the “Sean … Read more
We have many names to describe personal tools. Malleable software speaks to how it behaves. Home-cooked software speaks to who makes it. I wanted a name that speaks to something deeper: how it feels. Perfect Software. I mean “perfect” in … Read more
Doom and Quake studio id Software are now home to a “wall-to-wall” union according to the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The organisation have announced that a group of 165 id workers have just voted to unionise, adding to the … Read more
News on: 2025-12-04 The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X. The platform never aligned with our values and no longer serves as a space for communication. What initially intended to be a place for dialogue and information … Read more
I’m guessing everyone here has played DOOM before, or at least seen someone else play the game.It would also not be of any news for most here, that DOOM has specific hard-coded sound drivers which directly talk to the sound … Read more
Published on 04/11/2025 In the era of fast CPUs, gigabytes of RAM, and terabytes of storage software efficiency has become an overlooked thing. Many believe there are less reasons to optimize software today, as processors are fast and memory is … Read more
Free software scares normal people—Daniel De Laney Dd I’m the person my friends and family come to for computer-related help. (Maybe you, gentle reader, can relate.) This experience has taught me which computing tasks are frustrating for normal people. Normal … Read more
Owners of some Jeep Wrangler 4xe hybrids have been left stranded after installing an over-the-air software update this weekend. The automaker pushed out a telematics update for the Uconnect infotainment system that evidently wasn’t ready, resulting in cars losing power … Read more
This is a translated version of a talk I gave at P.I.W.O in June, with cleanups and adjustments for the blog form. …that doesn’t sound right. I made the slides in Inkscape, on a computer running KDE and Linux, I … Read more
The Apple Calculator leaked 32GB of RAM. Not used. Not allocated. Leaked. A basic calculator app is hemorrhaging more memory than most computers had a decade ago. Twenty years ago, this would have triggered emergency patches and post-mortems. Today, it’s … Read more