Alongside the power management and thermal driver updates this week for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle were also the ACPI updates. The ACPI pull request was worth calling out on its own thanks to a change that will allow for faster suspend and resume cycles on some systems with this new kernel.…

Turning the database inside-out A talk at Øredev, Malmö, Sweden, 05 Nov 2015 Transcript Slides Video This was a repeat of my talk at Strange Loop 2014. Abstract Databases are global, shared, mutable state. That’s the way it has been since the 1960s, and no amount of NoSQL has changed that. However,…

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than I…

I find Zig's idea of a "writer" confusing. This is probably because there are three different types, each trying to compensate for compromises made by the others. Let's try to understand what each is and how it fits into a bigger whole. The first writer that you're likely to run into is a writer:…

I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. - Steven King In writing (particularly fiction writing), there is a generally accepted distinction between authors who start by writing an outline and those who discover their stories through…

A couple of days ago, Cursor went down during the ChatGPT outage. I stared at my terminal facing those red error messages that I hate to see. An AWS error glared back at me. I didn’t want to figure it out without AI’s help. After 12 years of coding, I’d somehow become worse at my own craft. And this…

I have the fortune to review a few important blog posts every year and the biggest value I add is to call out sentences or sections that make no sense. It is quite simple and you can do it too. Without clarity only those at your company in marketing and sales (whose job it is to work with what they…

I just realized that I haven’t blogged in four years, so it will be a while before my blog catches up with me. I feel like I am a different person now… Okay, I’ll get to the topic I was excited to write about. The first time I saw AI-assisted software development was a demo of a project called all…

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