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 ...

OSS Today: Some Wins, Some Losses

How Linux thrives; Struggles with underfunded OSS

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn

It’s responsive—sometimes. Some things just work plain better. Settings being stored in actual config files instead of opaque registries? That’s an accessibility win. When something breaks, you don’t have to reinstall the whole OS like you would on Windows. Most importantly: it’s mine. To do with as I please. To fix, break, rebuild, and own.

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.

Rust and the Future of Systems Programming – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

If you’re a regular reader of Hacks, you probably know about Rust, the ground-breaking, community-driven systems programming language sponsored by Mozilla. I covered Rust on Hacks back in July, to ...

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 4 – Wayland Is Growing Up. And Now We Don’t Have a Choice — fireborn

This post wasn’t supposed to exist — not yet. I meant to talk about bootloaders. About inaccessible USB installs. About the deafening silence between pressing the power button and hearing a screen reader. That post is still coming.

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.