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.

The unbearable weight of cruft

Feb 20, 2026 | joanwestenberg.com | AI, bloat, galbraith

Buying a new ThinkPad for the first time!

Feb 20, 2026 | rubenerd.com | hardware, shopping, thinkpads

IA sempre gera as mesmas senhas “aleatórias”

Feb 20, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Site news, Manual do Usuário, Rodrigo Ghedin

What Defines a "Good Economy"? Social Mobility and Not Losing Ground

Feb 20, 2026 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

Amazon Web Services vibe-codes itself an outage or two

Feb 20, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Agents, Code completion, Amazon, Kiro

On February 20, 2010 a VIC-20 tweeted

Feb 20, 2026 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Teleoperation is Always the Butt of the Joke

Feb 20, 2026 | idiallo.com

AI vibe-generates the same ‘random’ passwords over and over

Feb 19, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Security, Irregular

Office Space released Feb. 19, 1999

Feb 19, 2026 | dfarq.homeip.net | Careers, Retro Computing

An expanded list of things I don’t need

Feb 19, 2026 | rubenerd.com | hardware, coffee, homelab, keyboards

Setting up new phones in 2026

Feb 19, 2026 | rubenerd.com | hardware, phones, privacy, security

Seedance’s ‘generated’ AI Cruise-Pitt demo was a green screen and face swap

Feb 18, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Image generators, Aron Peterson, ByteDance, Ruairi Robinson, Seedance

A Few Rambling Observations on Care

Feb 18, 2026 | blog.jim-nielsen.com

AI is the Best Thing to Happen to Art

Feb 18, 2026 | geohot.github.io | jekyll, update

Windows 2000 release date

Feb 18, 2026 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Thinking Improves Thinking

Feb 18, 2026 | idiallo.com

Some more roadside tech goodies

Feb 18, 2026 | rubenerd.com | hardware, finds, retrocomputing

The tech is coming/it’s inevitable/etc

Feb 18, 2026 | rubenerd.com | hardware, futurism

The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out

Feb 18, 2026 | joanwestenberg.com | Essay, AI, Politics

Deploy Hugo site to Cloudflare Workers

Feb 18, 2026 | pawelgrzybek.com

The AI Scare Trade — the all-purpose excuse for number go down

Feb 18, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Markets, Algorhythm, Altruist, SemiCab

Small Business in the TINA Economy: Competing for the Scraps

Feb 17, 2026 | charleshughsmith.blogspot.com | Financial Armageddon

First BBS goes online Feb. 16, 1978

Feb 17, 2026 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

The Stack: You’ve put AI everywhere! But can you insure against AI going wrong?

Feb 17, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Enterprise, Site news

My childhood motherboard arrived

Feb 17, 2026 | rubenerd.com | hardware, melbourne i486, retrocomputing

The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro

Feb 16, 2026 | pivot-to-ai.com | Cryptocurrency, Fake AI, Ariadne Conill, Ars Technica, Benj Edwards, cryptocurrency, Kyle Orland, Matplotlib, Moltbook, OpenClaw, Scott Shambaugh

Critiquing tests

Feb 16, 2026 | blog.ploeh.dk

Youtube founding date: February 15, 2005

Feb 16, 2026 | dfarq.homeip.net | Retro Computing

Programming is free

Feb 16, 2026 | idiallo.com

John Pizzarelli: The Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Feb 16, 2026 | rubenerd.com | media, music, music monday

“Cassette user? Time to get retirement ready”

Feb 16, 2026 | rubenerd.com | media, advertising, cassettes, music

Cost of Housing

Feb 15, 2026 | geohot.github.io | jekyll, update