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Lobbying is corruption
On lobbying, corruption, and the same animal under two names
A journey into a wild pointer
"I’d rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.[...] The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it. Those are the real things."
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The Influentists: AI hype without proof
Why we are losing technical rigor to social hype
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The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus'
Don't let AI erode your focus.
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Good people refuse to do bad things
On the responsibility of engineers
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Going immutable on macOS, using Nix-Darwin
From imperative chaos to nix-darwin
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A minimal kernel in Swift, running in QEMU
Update (28th of September 2026) Max Desiatov told me that the @c swift attribute should work, instead of declaring the functions using @_cdecl. The @c attribute marks a global function as a C function implemented in Swift, which formalizes the @_cdecl attribute. A link to the proposal is available here. I did update…