Recently a colleague mentioned building NixOS images that run unchanged on multiple architectures. Given the past adventures on this blog with systemd-repart and cross-compiling NixOS, I decide to give this a go.

When brothers Thomas and John Knoll began designing and writing an image editing program in the late 1980s, they could not have imagined that they would be adding a word to the dictionary.

My startup for terminals wrapped up mid-2025 when the funding ran dry.
So I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills.
Skills I have acquired over a very long career convincing terminals they are actually GUIs.

Investigation into replacing the MES compiler. Contribute to FransFaase/MES-replacement development by creating an account on GitHub.

Learn how to clone PostgreSQL databases instantly using reflinks. Turn slow template copies into milliseconds with PostgreSQL 18's new file copy options.

€6.5M in revenue, 65% EBIT margins, a full infrastructure migration, and enough features shipped to make your head spin — all with 13 people. Ten years in, still small, still profitable, still having...

A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss' decision to pull the segment from Sunday's episode sparked criticism, including from the correspondent behind the reporting.

An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table

Italy’s competition authority says Irish airline implemented technical obstacles to force sales through its own website

On-device AI across mobile, embedded and edge for PyTorch - pytorch/executorch

Last night, I caused something on X by saying that transactional databases should be single-threaded and aggressively sharded:

hot take: databases should be single-threaded

someone a long time ago decided that database shards should be multi-threaded. ever…

Public repository of the Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine - bellard/mquickjs

An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck..