How it started
How it's going

The vast majority of users never change the defaults on the software they use, this is a known fact. Which begs the question: why do companies keep changing user interfaces and functionality then? Either users want change or they don't, can't have it both ways.

These days the tech industry feels like the Titanic, except it's the middle of the day and every passenger and sailor on board can clearly see the iceberg. But if you mention it to the captain or any of his officers they scream back at you WAIT UNTIL THE NEW MODEL THIS TECHNOLOGY IS INEVITABLE YOU DON'T WANT TO BE LEFT BEHIND FULL STEAM AHEAD.

But the iceberg is still there and doesn't really care about the opinions of a bunch of delusional middle-aged men with text generators for girlfriends.

I didn't want to know how it would feel to live in a world where the majority of political and business leaders are completely delusional. Decision-making is based on a mix of magical thinking, extremist ideologies, conspiracy theories and narcissism.

When something absolutely needs to be done by humans:

no ifs, no buts and no bots

Today I found myself looking at an odd crash report. It appeared like a buffer overflow as the crash address sat neatly after the end of a mapped memory page. However there was something about the crash that confused our crash analysis logic: the memory access that caused the crash was at a different address than the one reported by the operating system! How come? It turns out that this was an implementation detail of the CPU bleeding through the ISA abstraction. 🧵 1/10

I've been working on wiring up Firefox build system with Geany so that it can be used as an IDE for development with integration for Rust, C/C++ and Python language servers. For contributors who want a full-blown IDE it's a much better option than Visual Studio Code which is both a resource hog and a security liability.

These things are not the same