Dean coding in Perl. Probably won't follow you. This account won't tweet or retweet politics.
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High achievers have a completely different mindset.
A lot of the time you'll feel like the odd man out, because you just see things differently than the people around you.
You're usually the one asking why everyone does it this way, or why a process even exists in the first place. You zig while everyone else zags.
People will question your methods for a while. Once you're proven to be an A Player, they'll pretty much let you do your thing.
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Other languages let the compiler ignore your whitespace. Python made it the whole type system.
Ai development has made computing fun again.
Almost like the early internet when people would throw little cgi-bin toys up, and email was a huge novelty.
Still looking for more testers for the HPE Ilo driver for FreeBSD github.com/djzort/hpilo #freebsd
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If we attempt to outlaw AI, we won't prevent it from being developed. We'll just ensure that the development is done by the most ruthless and careless possible people - criminals and governments.
Like a space PEZ dispenser
From concept to reality.
@SpaceX has successfully deployed Starlink V3 satellites into Earth’s orbit and made contact with them for the first time.
At scale, one Starship carries 60 V3 satellites, the same network capacity as about 20 Falcon 9 launches.
It's good old fashioned Clayton Christensen disruption. Cheaper & less features is "good enough", then moves up market.
Minicomputers pushed out Mainframes. PC's pushed out Minicomputers.
Big Iron was squeezed out, now Linux dominates. Mainframes & Windows Server are now niche
A Google researcher says the Windows NT kernel still “puts Linux to shame” in many ways.
Laurie Kirk, a former Microsoft reverse engineer, argues that NT was built with a cleaner and more consistent security model.
Linux took a different path, adding capabilities, namespaces, cgroups and SELinux over time.
But her most controversial point is about AI agents.
Kirk argues that Linux permissions are spread across too many mechanisms, while NT handles resources, permissions and auditing more consistently.
She even says that if we designed an OS kernel from scratch in 2026, it probably wouldn’t look like Linux.
Linux engineers are already pushing back, defending the modular approach that helped Linux dominate servers, cloud and containers.
Windows vs Linux just got interesting again.
Full story: windowslatest.com/2026/09/26…
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WhatsApp supported 450 million daily users with just 32 engineers
No Kubernetes and no microservice architectures
Just a small group solving one clear problem: Replace SMS, reliably, at scale
If anyone asked you if this is possible, you would probably say no
But the solution isn't more frameworks, tools, or ceremonies
The solution is simplicity, deep focus, and talent
When Facebook bought them for $19 billion, the whole company was around 55 people
Hire great engineers, clear their path, and let them build
Seems like many middle tier tech companies are discovering that their tradition of meat-base linting is very expensive and doesn't scale.
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Prediction time.
@dhh just asked over a thousand attendees at #railsworld how many people still write code by hand on a regular basis. Less than 10 people raised their hand.
Let that sink in.
Next year the question will be how many people are still doing manual PR code reviews or directly looking at code on any regular basis. Result will be similar.
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NetBSD 10.2 is out as the second point release in the 10.x stable series, adding new Ethernet, VMware, ARM, and security improvements.
linuxiac.com/netbsd-10-2-rel…
#NetBSD #OpenSource
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Perl:
I am now learning about the Perl language, because it is popular choice for search and replace on the cmd line (Bash terminal).
If you want to follow along:
$ perldoc perlintro
It's amazing I live in a world where IPv4 is a compatibility layer and an afterthought. Where NAT is a little joke like NetBEUI.
