Seeing many people reasserting their zero tolerance for using AI products…ON BLUESKY! The platform the devs of which proudly proclaimed their use of Claude Code on. That is just driving me up the wall.

If you’re gonna act like a FOSS zealot, but for no AI, against an indie dev shop, you might as well go all the way:

Switch from Bluesky to a fedi instance running Akkoma https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/src/branch/develop/CONTRIBUTING.md#ai-usage

Switch from using Windows or even Linux to NetBSD https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/13/netbsd-may-have-found-a-new-role-the-ai-free-foss-os/5302818

With how bad of a PR this is turning out for House House, you just know every game dev is gonna feel even less inclined to be transparent about their LLM usage. I doubt they’ll even want to admit they looked at a Google AI summary.

RE: https://raru.re/@ilovecomputers/117591364908959801

xoxo was down when the House House minor AI usage discourse started. Posted my thoughts on my alt. I find the whole discourse frustrating frankly

we just got a new official Git tutorial for beginners merged! Thanks to all the test readers who tested it, everyone’s feedback made it so much better.

My dream was to be able to recommend “to learn Git, you can start with the project’s official tutorial” and we’re getting closer to that!

You can see a preview of it here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html, and it’ll be at https://git-scm.com/docs (and at `git help tutorial`) after the next Git release.

branches are next :)

@ilovecomputers Swift is in the Kernel https://blog.calif.io/p/apple-internals-swift-in-the-kernel

I still find it unnecessary that separate languages are made for an OS shell. Why can’t it just be a REPL for a programming language the programs were written in? Even more ideal, the same language the OS was written in?
…
I’m describing a Lisp Machine, aren’t I?

Actually I take it back, this might be WORSE than the Surface. At least some design effort was put into the Surface's hardware and software to accommodate touch and pen support. Again, this seems like touch was slapped on like the Intricuit is promising to do https://intricuit.com

except Intricuit promises pen support.

RE: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/117519740651922618

Given the small touch targets on the standard MacOS, this is looking to be Microsoft-Surface-level bad of a user experience.

All the reasons Apple avoided a touch MacOS, they didn’t seem to bother to address. Like they straight up slapped on touch capabilities to give another new product for Ternus to parade around

Why not just go all the way and throw numbers in there for good measure to become like every other electronics company? MBP ProLED 26XDR

No one is gonna play virtual instruments on that damn thing. The MacBook Pro laptop screen is not even a practical surface to draw on! Just quickly tapping buttons instead of traveling your mouse over is the most use I can see the touchscreen being for.

“MacBook Pro with ProLED XDR”

Really slips off the tongue there, eh, Ternus?

Well. Got laid off, position terminated this Saturday. I need some time to remake my resume and everything but if anyone is looking for a Front-End engineer with 12yrs of exp in the Bay Area/Remote U.S. Ping me.

#getfedihired

Between the compromised certificates https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/the-internet-goes-on-high-alert-after-discovery-of-8-compromised-tls-certs/

PHP exploit https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/php-maintainers-tell-web-devs-to-prepare-themselves-for-critical-security-patches/

and Linus proposing an LLM-assisted patch that turned out to have a race condition https://lwn.net/Articles/1100449/

It feels like the tech industry is collapsing under its weight of tech debt and LLMs are not helping

To be clear: I’m not trying to shame the use of LLM assistance. I really am curious about this project’s software design guidelines. The docs discuss the usage of the software, but not its internals. The LLM harness md files would have provided transparency to that, but that is proprietary.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kepano/117456888453951005

I was curious how these results were achieved and looked up the repo https://github.com/obsidianmd/pele

- First commit 12 days ago
- gitignore contains Claude dir and AGENTS.md
- no technical doc about perf strategies

Is it really open source if the prompts that generated a software package are kept secret?

@nikitonsky Apple Intelligence data centers are powered by steve's spinning corpse

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jaffathecake/117444808515680090

Since Jake first wrote about AVIF https://jakearchibald.com/2020/avif-has-landed/

Support for it has grown on almost all the lastest platforms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF

Honestly, gonna use it over jpeg (photos) AND png (screenshots)

Happy Sunday! Here's a site I've built because I've been thinking about this and want to see more of it in the world: a space for describing and sharing scholarly skills that I've picked up and nurtured over the years.

Also this is a no AI zone in at least two ways: no talking about it and no using it.

https://critical.computer/

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton.

she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back.

news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Take a look at the First Alfred 6 features sneak peek! 👀

https://www.alfredapp.com/v6/