In which I use a recent event to explain the social contract of Open Source and argue that companies violate the social contract more than FOSS maintainers.
With companies taking advantage of Free and Open Source Software far more often than they contribute back, and harming users in the process, is it even worth working on anymore?
The maintainer of glibc, Ulrich Drepper, wrote an article called "Static Linking Considered Harmful". This is why his post is wrong.
There is a software project called Cosmopolitan. I had a discussion with its creator on lobste.rs, but it was deleted. So I am going to recreate it here and talk about what I learned from that discussion and what kind of culture I want around my software.
This post has descriptions of all of the software projects I currently have in the pipeline.
GitHub has made me angry again. This time, it's because they are laundering code with machine learning. To fight that, I have developed new FOSS licenses to poison their well.
Software is eating the world and making it worse. Software developers are to blame. But we can also fix it.
Ben Hoyt compared programming languages, and the only language without a hashmap was C. Let's see how a hashmap in C would actually do.
I thought that I would share the first programs I ever wrote with the world.