System Architecture

How the Codex CLI and MCP turn the 'stale CMDB' problem into a solved reasoning task—starting with Kubernetes

Over the decades the number of Linux distributions has effectively exploded, from a handful in the late ’90s to quite literally hundreds today, not counting minor variations. There lately see…

If you’re gonna be a hacker eventually you’re gonna have to write code. And if you write code eventually you’re gonna have to deal with concurrency. Concurrency is what we call it…

In today’s Chromed-up world it can be hard to remember an era where browsers could be extended with not just extensions, but also with plugins. Although for those of us who use traditional Ne…

An important aspect in software engineering is the ability to distinguish between premature, unnecessary, and necessary optimizations. A strong case can be made that the initial design benefits mas…

The Internet has spoiled us. You assume network packets either show up pretty quickly or they are never going to show up. Even if you are using WiFi in a crowded sports stadium or LTE on the side o…

We’ve had privacy tech in the natural world for millennia. Can we bring it to our new digital world? In What destroyed ‘the right to be let alone’, Tiffany Jenkins in the Washington Post argu…

HTTP-like protocol

Storing the history behind AI-generated code in a simple sidecar folder.

A developer’s guide to cloud networking that won’t leave you drowning in acronyms

How building software with AI agents is reshaping engineering, moving from deterministic coding to probabilistic, agent-driven development.

or: Writing a Translation Command Line Tool in Swift.

A guide to tools and resources for joining the independent web movement. Discover blogging platforms like Pika, search engines that prioritize small sites, directories for finding like-minded creators, and more.

Secure container distribution for commercial software. License-aware auth, customer-specific credentials, and a hardened path from docker pull to paid delivery.

Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documen...

A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.

the P2P file sharing Network

economic and technological framework which foresees the playback of prerecorded music as a service

Book &quotGeneral-Purpose Visual Programming Pipe"

I’m thinking out loud here about how to get development rolling for MyTerms. Right now I see three pieces required for a proof of concept: Browser plugin Web (content management system, or CM…

How borrowing distributed systems patterns from Erlang creates maintainable, efficient terminal applications with independently managed regions.

My former colleagues and I wrote a detailed paper^dbms to better understand io_uring. This post is a concise, high-level overview aimed at systems engineers: It should help you...