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Thinking will become a hobby

"Robot" Is a Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not a Robot

No Man Is an Island

Software developers are not okay

Exit the Cave

Beware overreliance on metaphor

What are you using as a task manager and as a people manager?

katamari architecture

On What The Panopticon Cannot See

AI and democracy: the right to resist optimization

LLMs and self-referentiality

What's your testing philosophy for scripts vs. production-grade Python code?"

Open Source Is Not a Virtue: It’s an Ownership Model

I naively tried vibe-coding a memory tool for agents and stared into the abyss of unsolved problems in philosophy

(What Comes) After FOSS?

Mindful coding: Purpose and intention

Talk is Cheap. Code is Cheap. Show me the Source

There's no such thing as Just a Tool

What Software is Made Of (2015)

What Naur got wrong from The concept of mind

Unfortunately you sometimes need to do the thing

On Hacking

Why Free Software usability tends to suck (2002)

And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway

On Knowledge Representation

Some Moral and Technical Consequences of Automation (1960)

I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write

The Limits of AI (1985)

Methinks it is a weasel

Man and the Computer by John G. Kemeny (1972 book by the co-creator of BASIC)

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