Blogs

Latest posts from various interesting blogs related to programming, system administration and other software-development-related topics. See also Links and Bits for the curated feeds.

The day GIF became free to use, forever
Oct 1, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Something for the #TODO list: stick with one
Oct 1, 2025 | rubenerd.com | software, productivity, time

Something for the #TODO list: stick with one
Oct 1, 2025 | rubenerd.com | software, productivity, time

Treat those who give you things well!
Oct 1, 2025 | rubenerd.com | software, commons, ethics, journalism, open source

Top picks — 2025 September
Oct 1, 2025 | pawelgrzybek.com

No story today!
Sep 30, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Site news

#SciArtSeptember: Accrete
Sep 30, 2025 | rubenerd.com | media, sciartseptember, space

IBM PS/2 series
Sep 30, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

AI Video Overview
Sep 30, 2025 | idiallo.com

Friend AI fails to make friends
Sep 29, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Gadgets, Avi Schiffman, Friend

Price Doesn't Reflect Value, and We're Paying a Steep Price for Confusing the Two
Sep 29, 2025 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

When Internet Explorer passed Netscape for the first time
Sep 29, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Composing pure Haskell assertions
Sep 29, 2025 | blog.ploeh.dk

We'll Never Have Flying Cars
Sep 29, 2025 | mertbulan.com | tech

#SciArtSeptember: Scattering
Sep 29, 2025 | rubenerd.com | media, art, saitom, sciartseptember

John Walker summarises gen-“AI”, and some feedback
Sep 29, 2025 | rubenerd.com | software, ethics, genai

New Pivot to AI on Redbubble — Shirts! Mugs! Clocks! Stickers! Fridge magnets!
Sep 29, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Site news

The finance press finally starts talking about the ‘AI bubble’
Sep 28, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Venture capital, Bain Capital, Barclays, David Crawford, Deutsche Bank, George Saravelos

Running Software on Software You’ve Never Run
Sep 28, 2025 | blog.jim-nielsen.com

I have an SGI Indigo2!
Sep 28, 2025 | rubenerd.com | hardware, retrocomputers, sgi, sgi indigo2

The Internet Is Powered by Generosity
Sep 28, 2025 | idiallo.com

#SciArtSeptember: Tessellation
Sep 28, 2025 | rubenerd.com | thoughts, furniture, home, retrocomputers, sciartseptember

QuickQWERTY 1.1.0
Sep 28, 2025 | susam.net

Massachusetts MCAS tests: sorry kid, AI says ‘fail’
Sep 28, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Education, Cognia, Massachus, MCAS

#SciArtSeptember: Symbiosis
Sep 27, 2025 | rubenerd.com | thoughts, english, language, sciartseptember

86Box 5 has a VM manager
Sep 27, 2025 | rubenerd.com | software, 86box, retrocomputers

Neon buys your phone calls to train AI — then it leaks them all
Sep 26, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Security, Neon, TechCrunch

Your support keeps Pivot to AI going — just $5 a month for a story every day
Sep 26, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Site news

Irving Gould and Commodore
Sep 26, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Users Only Care About 20% of Your Application
Sep 26, 2025 | idiallo.com

Can Social Security Be Saved for Future Generations?
Sep 26, 2025 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

Are AI users dishonest? If they are, this Nature paper doesn’t show it
Sep 25, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Papers, Nature

Motorola born on this day in 1928
Sep 25, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Lionsgate still can’t turn its movies into an AI video model
Sep 24, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Image generators, Cristóbal Valenzuela, Lionsgate, Michael Burns, Netflix, Runway, Ted Sarandos

Ebay’s IPO: The rare dotcom survivor
Sep 24, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

How to Lead in a Room Full of Experts
Sep 24, 2025 | idiallo.com

Physical editions coming!
Sep 24, 2025 | usebox.net | gamedev, Amstrad CPC, DOS

Workslop: bad ‘study’, but an excellent word
Sep 23, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Enterprise, BetterUp, Harvard Business Review

The Risks of NPM
Sep 23, 2025 | blog.jim-nielsen.com

Money, Credit, Growth and Depression: It's Complicated
Sep 23, 2025 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel
Sep 23, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Hardware

The UK public doesn’t trust AI — the Tony Blair Institute is very worried!
Sep 22, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Government, Tony Blair Institute, United Kingdom

NEC V20 CPU: A bit of pep for an XT
Sep 22, 2025 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

The Great AI Filter
Sep 22, 2025 | idiallo.com

It's striking so quickly the industry forgets that lines of code isn't a measure of productivity
Sep 22, 2025 | blog.ploeh.dk

‘Stop Worrying About AI’s Return on Investment’ said the wallet inspector
Sep 22, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Code completion, Enterprise, Blackline, Carolina Dybeck Happe, Duolingo, Eric Glyman, Microsoft, Ramp, Severin Hacker, Sophia Velastegui, Wall Street Journal

Anti-*: The Things We Do But Not All The Way
Sep 21, 2025 | blog.jim-nielsen.com

Albania’s AI minister speaks! And turns out to be an actor
Sep 20, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Fake AI, Government, Albania, Anila Bisha, Diella, Edi Rama, Mira Murati

Building a Habit for Inaction
Sep 20, 2025 | idiallo.com

Business Insider will publish AI stories — without disclosure
Sep 19, 2025 | pivot-to-ai.com | Journalism, Business Insider, Jamie Heller, Mathias Döpfner, Politico

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