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Random self plug - I liked a lot of these quotes from Alan Perlis, so around a year ago I bought the domain https://perl.is/ to display them.

nit: On my first read, I was a bit confused trying to solve the puzzle (without TLA+) because the second question was underspecified: > If the algorithm terminates with b = 1, what…

Maybe "Rust maintainers' perspectives on AI" or "Rust contributors' perspectives on AI" would be better?

The author also posted a follow up about forge-specific repository folders ("magic folders" I suppose): https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/22/forge-specific-repository-fold...

Does Facebook/Meta still use Phabricator or Phorge directly? Or do they use a fork of one of them internally?

Here's my site! https://rybicki.io/

On my current team we run a centralized task scheduler used by other products in our company that manages on the order of around ~30M schedules. To that end, it's a home-grown dist…

I liked how this piece cuts through nostalgia and maps out (or at least gives a sketch of) where the valley actually is today. A few highlights that stood out to me: - The sharp co…

Same story with the Mojo language, unfortunately. To me this raises the question of whether this is a growing trend, or whether it's simply that languages staying closed source ten…

I only see around three .cpp files in the entire project?

I really appreciate this essay. I've never been a [traditional] artist, but I reckon that those working in the arts, and even areas of the programming world where experimentation i…