Scored Dad’s old dressing gown. Pretty happy about that. It’s my new favourite thing.
Category Archives: Chatter
Sun Microsystems
Found myself looking up this List of Sun Microsystems employees. Particularly interested in James Gosling and Bill Joy.
Seward’s Folly
When the USA purchased Alaska they called it “Seward’s Folly“.
Enshittification
This is a worthwhile read and an interesting and perhaps important perspective: Tiktok’s enshittification. Don’t let the title fool you, the article is about a more general phenomena than relates to Tiktok. I came across the enshittification article today while reading How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads and about Jedi Blue.
Cory Doctorow writes some interesting stuff, like this: Como Is Infosec: Content moderation is a security problem.
And I learned about fisking, which sounds more risqué than it is. Sounds like what we’ve been doing since forever on usenet.
The End of Computer Magazines in America
Sad times we live in: The End of Computer Magazines in America.
Auditors
This is just for the record. (So I can find it later, if it turns out that I want to.)
Mentioned here: KeePassXC Audit Report.
dmitry.gr
Holy shit. This guy is next level. https://dmitry.gr/
Russ Cox
Discovered https://swtch.com/~rsc/. Always appreciate a good three letter username. He was mentioned here: A Cryptographic Near Miss:
Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other programmers.
Obviously from Google if he says something like that.
