Founder: Tech for Palestine, Darklang, CircleCI
Over the Christmas break, I – or Claude Code perhaps – built a full optimizing compiler for Darklang , a language I've worked on since 2016 which has never had a compiler. The results were pretty astounding. Claude was in fact able to build an advanced compiler, writing every
Ireland gets a lot of support and a lot of love from the international and Palestinian communities for our support for a Free Palestine. Unlike most countries, in Ireland the need for a liberated Palestine is a given, the default, and we are deeply pro-liberation and anti-genocide, having
A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [ 1 ] as a suspected militant [ 2 ]. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it? Lavender is Israel's system of "pre-crime"
Press Release: https://techforpalestine.org/press-release "we don’t have the right to show humanity towards Palestinians without being silenced or cancelled" - venture backed tech founder, in personal message to me Tech For Palestine ( Twitter , Github ) is a collection of over 40 tech founders, engineers, marketers,
I can't sleep. I'm lying in bed every night, and images of Gaza are running through my head. Fathers holding their babies, dead, caked in dust. Bombs dropped on homes [ 1 ], on hospitals [ 2 ], on schools [ 3 ]. Tens of thousands of dead [ 4 ] in indiscriminate bombings
What happens when a small band of crypto enthusiasts, with innovative ideas around federation and moderation for a distributed social media protocol, find 10,000 left wing shitposters playing in their demo instance? Last week, Bluesky Social, the new and shiny invite-only Twitter clone, had a moment. Some of
Again this year, funding for open source is making noise. Throwing their hands in the air, breathless open source advocates on the Orange…
Last week Vanity Fair published a pretty intense article (an excerpt from Emily Chang’s upcoming “Brotopia”) about Silicon Valley’s sex…
Does anyone else think it was kinda insane that people suggested Peter Thiel should be fired from Facebook’s board and as a Y Combinator…
I made a URL shortener for Hacker News. The project itself is pretty simple, but the tech stack behind it is pretty interesting. I built it…
Hkrn.ws is a URL shortener for hacker news.
For the last 4 years, my creative juices have mostly been applied to writing about CircleCI, the developer ecosystem, and Continuous…
Last week, I wrote  It’s the Future , a piece that satirized the container ecosystem, lightly mocking Docker and Google and CoreOS and a bunch of other technologies. Lots of Docker enthusiasts enjoying being the butt of the joke, but it was also much loved and shared by
Hey, my boss said to talk to you — I hear you know a lot about web apps? -Yeah, I’m more of a distributed systems guy now. I’m just back from ContainerCamp and Gluecon and I’m going to Dockercon next week. Really
There’s a lot of challenges in testing your code against 3rd party APIs, so I’m going to explain some best practices that we’ve come up with or seen customers use over time at CircleCI. [Photo credit to @manp] There are two kinds of 3rd