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A human wrote this essay. Proof of work. Harold Bloom was a professor at Yale and a famous author and literary critic: think of Roger Ebert but for books. Many considered him a prick and colleagues bristled at him. This grumpy professor’s in my noggin lately, because I happen to participate in an online community, Lobsters, which I find is bursting at the seams with Harold Blooms. (Except…
Update: Lobsters thread I think our biggest technical talent should abandon for-profit social platforms. I’m talking usual suspects1 here: Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit and so on. These platforms are crumbling under heavy regulation2 and cultural backlash. If you’re investing your peak years shaping public narratives there, you risk reputation and creativity (more on the latter…
About time, right? I’ve had my fair share of debates about the old Linus. You know, the version of him who’d tear into Linux kernel maintainers with no mercy: Subject: Re: Regression - /proc/kmsg does not (always) block for 1-byte reads Kay, this needs to be fixed. Suggested fix: just use the seq_printf() interfaces, which do the proper buffering, and allow any size reads of various…
Just yesterday, the seemingly promising Programming Languages Festival failed to raise enough funds on Kickstarter: its organizer, a YouTuber who goes by Context Free (I see what you did there) asked for $50,000 and raised $8,709. Given that he is a popular content creator and the speaker list was impressive (boasting prominent language designers and experts) I feel compelled to break down why…
Hello, I’m a systems programmer! I hope you let me show off a bit on this page. Type in “NASA’s Coding Philosophy” anywhere online and the first result is my essay published by the mainstream press. After winning NASA’s Intern of the Year, I started the Handmade Network and went on to work for Jonathan Blow. I wrote the test suite for Jai and uncovered the majority of…
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