Code And Let Live

Erase your darlings: immutable infrastructure for mutable systems - Graham Christensen

Over time, a system collects state on its root partition. This state lives in assorted directories like /etc and /var, and represents every under-documented or out-of-order step in bringing up the services.

Nothing new under the sun: everything is a file

The Unix revolution was built on a key principle: everything is a file. Now, with the rise of AI Agents, LLMs have access to half a century of file-based arcana. The result? Everything is becoming a file again.

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It - …

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A Social Filesystem — overreacted

Formats over apps.

All that is solid melts into code

More computer, rather than more human.

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend.

“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C.

S3 is files, but not a filesystem

"Deep" modules, mismatched interfaces - and why SAP is so painful

Tree Borrows | Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages

The Rust programming language is well known for its ownership-based type system, which offers strong guarantees like memory safety and data race freedom. However, Rust also provides unsafe escape hatches, for which safety is not guaranteed automatically ...

FUSE — The Linux Kernel documentation

A filesystem in which data and metadata are provided by an ordinary userspace process. The filesystem can be accessed normally through the kernel interface.

File Over App: A Philosophy for Digital Longevity

My take on the 'file over app' philosophy and why it’s essential for keeping my data resilient and built to last.

esoteric.codes

esolangs, esoplatforms, esosystems, and all that break from the norms of computing

TrenchBoot Anti Evil Maid (current plan - v2) - Dasharo Universe

As Qubes OS users, promoters, and developers, we understand how essential it is to be aware of the latest developments in maintaining the security of your favorite operating system. We're excited to share our plans to integrate the TrenchBoot Project into Qubes OS's new Anti-Evil Maid (AEM) implementation. As you may know, traditional firmware security measures like UEFI Secure Boot and measured boot, even with a Static Root of Trust (SRT), may only sometimes be enough to ensure a completely secure environment for your operating system. Compromised firmware may allow for the injection of malicious software into your system, making it difficult to detect. To overcome these limitations, many silicon vendors have started implementing Dynamic Root of Trust (DRT) technologies to establish a secure environment for operating system launch and integrity measurements. We're excited to take advantage of these advancements through integration with the TrenchBoot Project.

rust-lang/rust

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Write-Only Code | Heavybit

AI may be accelerating software into a world of "write-only" code that forces a rethink of culture, processes, and tools. Heavybit’s Joseph Ruscio explains.