There has been quite a surge in interest towards desktop Linux lately. The userbase, atleast according to some metrics, seems to be climbing. I realised today that it's been 4 years for me since I did the switch. I have gathered some know-how that maybe a complete newbie could find useful. I also…

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It seems Microsoft is absorbing GitHub deeper into Microsoft. GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke is stepping down, and GitHub will be integrated into a new department within Microsoft. Which department will become the new stewards of GitHub, and the massive pile of open source code it’s hosting? You already…

Zig’s Lovely Syntax Aug 9, 2025 It’s a bit of a silly post, because syntax is the least interesting detail about the language, but, still, I can’t stop thinking how Zig gets this detail just right for the class of curly-braced languages, and, well, now you’ll have to think about that too. On the…

I’ve spent a good deal of my professional life arguing against using protobuffers. They’re clearly written by amateurs, unbelievably ad-hoc, mired in gotchas, tricky to compile, and solve a problem that nobody but Google really has. If these problems of protobuffers remained quarantined in…

Today, most people use LLMs as an information lookup and generation system. Develop a personalized workout plan for me. Summarize and respond to this email. Give me some recipes I can make with these ingredients. Without some new breakthrough in AI that opens the door to AGI, we probably won’t get…

Smalltalk MVC is defined in Design Pattern as: MVC Consists of three kinds of objects. The Model is the application object, the View is its screen presentation, and the Controller defines the way the user interface reacts to user input. However this definition has been abused over the years - Back…

Contents Getting about (this post) This post is big! Skip whatever bores… Follow the ! It is an "I to I" explanation I wish I had long ago. I've referenced and toward the end, which may be the most practically useful section of this post. Update (2025-02-18): Links to my talk at Functional Conf…