Mr TIFF – from Inventing The Future <- tracing Stephen Carlsen, the man who invented the TIFF picture file while at Aldus, just before he died
Why Engineers Can't Be Rational About Programming Languages: The Leadership Blindspot: How Identity Drives Multi-Million Dollar Technical Debt <- this is THE dominant factor explaining 21st century computing
Why Nextcloud feels slow to use « I like what Nextcloud offers with its feature set… but no matter how hard I try… it feels slow. […] It’s the Javascript. »
Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again 2025-11-01 - Feeling like a kid in a candy store, once more <- a sequel of sorts to the earlier post
How AGI became the most consequential conspiracy theory of our time (MIT Technology Review) The idea that machines will be as smart as—or smarter than—humans has hijacked an entire industry. But look closely & you’ll see it’s a myth that persists for many of the same reasons conspiracies do.
The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe <- there are arguably signs that the writer used an LLM to tweak this, but the core point stands, nonetheless.
Xubuntu downloads section injection threatens users with crypto infection Attempted exploit was a feeble effort to target Windows users <- by me on @npub1p4kx...wfhv
The latest from @npub1pk4u...yeh8 is splendid. (As ever.) image