Bits
The small parts (links, highlights/quotes, and other bits and pieces)
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/llms-coding-agents-security-nightmare
I've been using Debian as my main OS both on servers and desktops for over 20 years now. It's one of the very rare things in this world that has stayed consistently good throughout all those years.
https://colton.dev/blog/curing-your-ai-10x-engineer-imposter-syndrome/
https://a64.in/posts/learning-basic-electronics-by-building-fireflies/
"Wow, show it to me!"
"OK here it is. We call it COBOL."
A hackable (~3200 line single .c file implementation) compositor for Wayland based on wlroots.
Fantasies die especially hard when the dream was over-hyped.
https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/07/ai-over-promise-under-perform.html
Debian v13 with codename trixie is scheduled to be published as new stable release on 9th of August 2025.
https://michael-prokop.at/blog/2025/07/20/what-to-expect-from-debian-trixie-newintrixie/
Police in Spain have reportedly started profiling people based on their phones; specifically, and surprisingly, those carrying [...]
https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pixel-3575477
https://colton.dev/blog/tailwind-is-the-worst-of-all-worlds/
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2025/01/i-quit-tsunami-of-burnout-few-see.html
https://endtimes.dev/why-your-website-should-be-under-14kb-in-size/
https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/
-- Douglas Crockford
-- Richard P. Gabriel
https://rubenerd.com/ask-rubenerd-do-you-use-llms-to-write-posts/
https://yannesposito.com/Scratch/en/blog/Learn-Vim-Progressively/
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
Why you should write more toy programs
https://mertbulan.com/2025/06/26/why-i-dont-ride-the-ai-hype-train/
-- Linus Torvalds
https://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck
"[...] Those friction-filled experiences are nearly extinct now. Weβve optimized them away in the name of convenience, and something important has been lost in the transition."
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/how-convenience-kills-curiosity/
-- Chris Wenham
-- David Parnas
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
-- Donald Knuth
-- Ken Thompson
-- Danny Hillis
-- Charles Simonyi
-- Fred Brooks
"This engine was built to service a project that aimed to demonstrate why Doom can't run in TypeScript types. Well. The funny thing is.. It can."
https://github.com/MichiganTypeScript/typescript-types-only-wasm-runtime
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra
-- Chris Sacca
-- David Leinweber
-- Eric S. Raymond
https://blog.ploeh.dk/2024/06/03/youll-regret-using-natural-keys/
-- Roy Fielding
-- Marijn Haverbeke
-- Fred Brooks
-- Tony Parisi
-- Luciano Ramalho
-- Ken Thompson
-- Niklaus Wirth
-- Joseph Yoder
-- John McCarthy
-- Jeff Hammerbacher
-- Fred Brooks
-- Douglas Crockford
-- Charles Simonyi
-- Danny Hillis
-- Butler Lampson
-- Addy Osmani