“The value [added by the mythical 10x engineer] is literally the wages that the other nine workers are no longer paid, and which thus remain on the credit side of the company’s ledger.” https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/ten-times
The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility
There is a persistent misconception among sighted developers: if an application runs in a terminal, it is inherently accessible. The logic assumes that because there are no graphics, no complex DOM, and no WebGL canvases, the content is just raw ASCII text that a screen reader can easily pa
Hey. Nations are made up. Citizenship is made up. Naturalization is made up. We have these things because this is the social contract we grew over hundreds of years.
The idea of an immigrant becoming a citizen is no less legitimate than the idea of someone being born a citizen. They are both and equally legal constructs that exist because things were worse without them.
If an immigrant can be denaturalized, then anyone the government wants to be rid of can be denaturalized.
The great license-washing has begun
In the world of open source, relicensing is notoriously difficult. It usually requires the unanimous consent of every person who has ever contributed a line of code, a feat nearly impossible for legacy projects. chardet, a Python character encoding detector used by requests and many others, has sat in that tension for years: as a port of Mozilla’s C++ code it was bou
https://www.osnews.com/story/144547/the-great-license-washing-has-begun/
> and if someone asks you to take a selfie to prove you’re human, ask yourself who’s on the other side of that camera, and what list you just landed on.
Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation
Last night, my wife looks up from her computer, troubled. She tells me she can't log into her computer running Windows 11, as every time she enters the PIN code to her account, the login screen throws up a cryptic error: "Your credentials could not be verified". She's using the correct PIN code, so that surely isn't it. We opt
https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/