In the last 28 years of publishing software, I’ve had three distinct eras of software licensing. All of my recent stuff is available under the European Union Public License 1.2, and I thought to explain why.

Delegated authority for AI agents. A Pigeon Pass says what an agent may do. - pigeonlabsHQ/pigeon

He was once seen as one of the leading minds in AI development, today he is one of its major critics: On stage at the startup conference TechBBQ in

James Marriott’s The New Dark Ages

Note: This was originally published as a LinkedIn post on November 11, 2025.
I need to make a painful confession: somehow, LinkedIn has become an important social network to me. This isn’t necessarily due to LinkedIn’s sparkling competence, of course. To…

Our columnist Isabella Saccardi caught herself envying a friend's creative job. But isn't academic research creative as well? "Somewhere along the way, I stopped recognising the creativity in what I was doing," she writes.

A new show at the British Museum will focus the world’s attention on a medieval marvel

A twelve-chapter course on quantum oracle engineering: screening problems for quantum advantage, compiling Monte Carlo rollouts into reversible circuits, and certifying quantum building blocks beyond the reach of any test.

Asahi Linux developers announced today that they are now officially supporting the Linux distribution on Apple M3 powered Macs

Kadō — A privacy-first habit tracker for iPhone and iPad. - scastiel/kado

Experts say that the smell comes from a chemical compound called 2-nonenal, and it can show up much earlier than one expects

It's complicated

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files…

Never let it be said that the Alberta’s United Conservative Party government isn’t in favour of recycling stuff – at least as long as that can be used to create higher costs and more red tape to help strangle the development of renewable energy.  Yesterday…

Part of “Conquering Entropy”
Most of the issues I have with AI-generated code are related to trust. Do I trust the person who wrote this ticket? Do