I’ve had a smidge of extra time with my recent unemployment, so to stay sharp and learn a few new things I followed Seiya Nuta’s guide to building an Operating System in 1,000 Lines.

I followed the Operating System in 1000 Lines tutorial to understand what it means to work without the safety rails. I expected difficulty. I did not expect how disorienting it would feel to debug code that refuses to pretend it is anything other than memory, registers, and control flow.

Whenever people ask me about JWTs and stateless auth, which has happened twice, I answer: No, No, Maybe.

In 2010 Elif Batuman wrote Get A Real Degree. Obstensibly a book review, it gave her space to unload on an era that produced a writing glut.

This quote stuck out ot me.

That’s the torture of walking into a bookshop these days: it’s not that you think the books will all be terrible; it’s that you know they’ll all have a certain degree of competent workmanship, that most will have about three genuinely beautiful or interesting sentences and no really bad ones, that many will have at least one convincing, well-observed character, and that nearly all will be bound up in a story that you can’t bring yourself to care about. All that great writing, trapped in mediocre books! Who, indeed, has time to read them?

Sometimes science fiction gives a peek into a possible future. Not enough people are talking about this old classic short story Profession by Isaac Asimov, and what it can teach us about our AI-and-prompt-engineering-powered future.

Stack Overflow should not discourage repetitive answers. It’s a sign of a healthy community.

Lets pretend this is all fictional and not at all based on a real story I can’t talk about.

SCRUM does a lot of things wrong, and lot of things it does right is mystifying. But one thing that it does very right is it answers the question of how many meetings to have. The answer is about 3 hours a week.

I partially implemented SCIM. SCIM is used so rarely there’s no online discussion or help about any of it. Here’s what I learned.

These rules didn’t used to exist, because they didn’t need to exist, because web design used to not go out of it’s way to kneecap the basic functionality of a person using a website. But here we are. So here are the new rules of web design for the hell that exists.