The 2026 Maintainers Summit
The Maintainers Summit is a one-day, invitation-only gathering of about 30 kernel developers; i [...]
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How to effectively debug when you no longer understand the code
Disclaimer: While the content of this article might be Agentic coding, this post was entirely written by hand, except for some parts where I directly quote LLM generated text, which is attributed as such.
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The wild west of polyglot docs sites
A polyglot docs site attempts to combine the outputs from multiple docs generators into a cohesive whole. There isn’t really a great way to do this, yet.
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I've Been Deindexed by Google
I don't remember exactly when but, earlier in the year, I decided I didn't want this website to be indexed by search engines anymore. A lot of it has to do w...
Lobsters2 min readA rant about APIs
I have had the displeasure of integrating with a few different APIs over the past few weeks while working to automate Vori’s onboarding flow. These APIs have been for systems including contract rendering and e-signature collection, invoicing/billing systems, CRMs, card processors and gateways, and…
Lobsters5 min readLast rites for Gentoo's Chromium package
Chromium, the open-source upstream project for Google's Chrome web browser, is the browser of c [...]
Lobsters16 min readThe Era of Software Quality, or the Era of Ostriches?
Humans are bad at writing secure code, and GNOME developers are no exception. GNOME is primarily written using unsafe programming languages where simple mistakes in our code lead to devastating consequences for our users, and we make these mistakes all the time.
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The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding
Agentic coding is undeniably very useful. It’s also very bad. Or rather, it’s having some horrible effects on us, our craft, and our relationships with each other. I can feel it in my bones, and a lot of others can too.
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State of Devs 2026
Nearly half of this year's survey respondents had experienced job insecurity and insufficient wages. A quarter had been laid off at some point in their career, and nearly 1 in 10 had been laid off within the last 9 months.
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Yes, no AI is now a feature
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of millions of people – in schools, hospitals, public bodies, law firms and thousands of…
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