vim, harfbuzz, who’s next? people ask in shock, but…
i think, fundamentally, the reason Claude and Codex are becoming part of crucial FOSS projects is the same reason xz almost became the entry point for mass-scale server hacking a few years ago. we’ve decided to make billion dollar industries rely on burned out, lonely individual developers who never found a way to get paid for their labor. we never managed to solve that problem.
these burned out, lonely devs see a tool that spits out the boring part of their work in a more or less functional manner if you squint, and it “only” () costs “$200” (*) a month. i can imagine why most people take it. heck, i won’t deny that i am tempted myself, but my convictions remain too strong.
i’ve also seen some say that these people should step down and make way for new developers. who, exactly? i know how many months it took me to find a maintainer for one of the more popular Minecraft mods, and that’s a position with both far more takers and far less responsibility on either side.
i think that a lot of what’s going to happen to software in the next few years is the consequence of long term systemic issues. the introduction of LLM tools to the equation is merely an illuminant and accelerant
Revoke their license.
Emergency Responders Say They're Now Unpaid "Roadside Assistance" for Confused Waymos https://share.google/yGTL3WVyQYFfoFDS4
I'm still using my #PinebookPro . It's not that fast but enough for many tasks.
TIL someone got postmarketOS running on an Apple Macbook touchbar 🤣
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/File:Apple_iBridge_T2_touchbar_Linux.png
Q: Why is udev a great piece of software?
A: Because udev rules.
I recently received a number of these Asus Chromebook 100P laptops as a donation. They're cute little laptops, but are on an expired version of ChromeOS, and since they're #arm I can't use my usual tricks with MrChromebox.
Well @cinimodev apparently is way smarter than me, and figured out how to get #postmarketOS running on this in no time.
He even wrote it up. Check it out. It's brilliant. Yay, #linux
https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2026-03-07-asus-chromebook-c100p-postmarketos-guide/