Bits
The small parts (links, highlights/quotes, and other bits and pieces)
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
-- Donald Knuth
A good TLDR on the current state of things: https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/does-current-ai-represent-a-dead-end/
web version: https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2884038
pdf: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/2857274.2884038
-- Linus Torvalds