The Desktop Outgrew the Distro
I loved Pop!_OS and ran 22.04 for years. System76 built something special with that distro, and when they announced they were writing a new desktop en…
Death by Yes
I've Spent 43 Years Securing Systems. Here's Why I Don't Trust Software That Can't Say No.
You Built a Network of Snitches
You didn't get hacked. You just bought a bunch of devices that were designed to spy on you. Time to take your network back.
Why I Started Writing Rust in Retirement
I retired in March 2024 after 40 years of writing software. A decade at Salesforce, and before that a long trail of jobs going back to the early 80s.…
Wayland in 2026: The 'Not Stable' Myth Needs to Die
The arguments against Wayland are frozen in 2020. The technology moved on.
Why I Left GitHub
Microsoft is training AI on your code without consent. I moved to Codeberg.
Distro Hopping to Nowhere: How I Landed on Vanilla Arch for COSMIC
A year of bad decisions, documented for your entertainment.