Blogs

Latest posts from various interesting blogs related to programming, system administration and other software-development-related topics. See also Links and Bits for the curated feeds.

Feedback to the Haneda Problem
Feb 3, 2026 | rubenerd.com | thoughts, feedback, philosophy

2026 fixes, and an IPv6 update again
Feb 3, 2026 | rubenerd.com | internet, ipv6, weblog

Owning Your Work in a World That Rents Your Life
Feb 3, 2026 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

When Bill Gates claimed to work for $2 an hour
Feb 3, 2026 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

The Intel i486 SX-25 that started it all
Feb 3, 2026 | rubenerd.com | hardware, melbourne i486, retrocomputing

The Coherence Premium
Feb 2, 2026 | joanwestenberg.com

Musk wants to merge SpaceX with xAI, then take it public
Feb 2, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Companies, Elon Musk, SpaceX, Tesla, xAI

Power and Impunity
Feb 2, 2026 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

Australia needs a Mark Carney speech
Feb 2, 2026 | rubenerd.com | thoughts, australia, canada, new zealand

Code that fits in a context window
Feb 2, 2026 | blog.ploeh.dk

Intel 286 introduced Feb 2, 1982
Feb 2, 2026 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

The Shoe on The Other Foot
Feb 2, 2026 | idiallo.com

The Browser’s Little White Lies
Feb 1, 2026 | blog.jim-nielsen.com

Top picks — 2026 January
Feb 1, 2026 | pawelgrzybek.com

git.usebox.net and bots
Jan 31, 2026 | usebox.net | Internet

Pivot to AI pledge week finishing. Just a bit more needed!
Jan 31, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Site news

Automatic programming
Jan 31, 2026 | antirez.com

Making up for old games of dubious origin
Jan 31, 2026 | rubenerd.com | games, cd roms, nostalgia, simcity, train simulator

Writing EEPROMs on FreeBSD with minipro
Jan 31, 2026 | rubenerd.com | hardware, bsd, freebsd, ics, retrocomputing

Your Life is the Sum Total of 2,000 Mondays
Jan 31, 2026 | joanwestenberg.com

AI sends tourists to Tasmanian hot springs that don’t exist
Jan 30, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Image generators, Australia, Kristi Probert, Scott Hennessey, Tasmania, Tasmania Tours, Weldborough

What happened to Packard Bell?
Jan 30, 2026 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

You Don't Understand Things Better, You Just Feel Smarter
Jan 30, 2026 | idiallo.com

The job losses are real — but the AI excuse is fake
Jan 29, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Enterprise

The PicoIDE IDE emulator
Jan 29, 2026 | rubenerd.com | hardware, retrocomputing

The US Economy in a Nutshell: A Few Winners, Everyone Else Loses Ground
Jan 29, 2026 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

Pivot to AI in Portuguese at Manual do Usuário
Jan 29, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Site news, Manual do Usuário, Rodrigo Ghedin

Gateway announces merger with eMachines, 1/30/2004
Jan 29, 2026 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

I want this bag for storing computer cables
Jan 29, 2026 | rubenerd.com | hardware, cables, food, pointless

Moltbot/Clawdbot: an expensive and insecure AI agent that doesn’t work
Jan 29, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Agents, Clawdbot, Moltbot, Peter Steinberger

Finding my childhood motherboard
Jan 28, 2026 | rubenerd.com | hardware, melbourne i486, retrocomputing

The Don’t “Contact Us” Page
Jan 28, 2026 | blog.jim-nielsen.com

JTS: short-lived maker of 90s hard drives
Jan 28, 2026 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Everyone's okay with their AI, just not yours
Jan 28, 2026 | idiallo.com

Why I Stopped Following the News
Jan 28, 2026 | mertbulan.com | life

The wide world of TCG card folders
Jan 28, 2026 | rubenerd.com | hardware, cards, collections, hololive, pointless

More invoker commands, and more reasons not to use JavaScript please
Jan 28, 2026 | pawelgrzybek.com

Look for what's true
Jan 28, 2026 | dubroy.com

Cursor lies about vibe-coding a web browser with AI
Jan 27, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Code completion, Cursor, Gregory Terzian, Michael Truell, Servo, Wilson Lin

Now (January 2026)
Jan 27, 2026 | rknight.me

Why the Next Recession Will Be the Catalyst for Depression
Jan 27, 2026 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

What happened to Geocities
Jan 27, 2026 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Why Intelligence Is a Terrible Proxy for Wisdom
Jan 27, 2026 | joanwestenberg.com

QuickQWERTY 1.2.1
Jan 27, 2026 | susam.net

Insurers don’t want to cover AI
Jan 26, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Enterprise, AIG, Anthropic, Armilla, Great American, OpenAI, WR Berkley

You Can Just Say No to the Data
Jan 26, 2026 | blog.jim-nielsen.com

The Importance of Diversity
Jan 26, 2026 | geohot.github.io | jekyll, update

What happened to Sun Microsystems
Jan 26, 2026 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

LLM Adblockers are coming!
Jan 26, 2026 | idiallo.com

AI-generated tests as ceremony
Jan 26, 2026 | blog.ploeh.dk

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