The drama is that which we brought on ourselves.
Distributions are becoming irrelevant: difference was our strength and our liability
For someone that has spent the past thirteen years defining himself as a developer of a Linux distribution…
‘The Internet Sucks.’ Cory Doctorow Tells How to Fix It | The Tyee
The digital savant on ‘enshittification,’ how ‘twiddlers’ secretly rip us off, powering down Big Tech and more. A Tyee interview.
AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons
The balance of software copyright protection and openness has always been fraught with minutiae and detail that bores all but the most nerdy of pedants. Yet, through much effort and 40 years of debate we had reached an equilibrium. Now AI has thrown that out the window.
The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
The bugs, broken apps, and nightmare customer-service bots we can't escape, presented as a blessed and sacred addendum to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI
Cory Doctorow on Enshittification, with danah boyd and Lee Vinsel
Nature is Laughing at the AI Build Out -
I was catching up on Acquired episodes this week and listened to the spectacular “Google: The AI Company” episode that Ben and David put together. What the two of them have created with their podcast fascinates me in the inevitability of its success. I think Acquired proves that if you are smart and work your […]
Why Libraries.io and Dependency CI are joining Tidelift
Today we have some pretty big news. Ben and I are joining Tidelift, a new company focused on making open source software work better for…
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transform…
the world hasn’t figured out yet that you can literally just fix everything with a Nix overlay
There are many things that are uncertain in our industry right now, but one thing I am certain about, and have been for almost 13 years, is that Nix is a terrible programming language. I remember when I first learned it, it felt like pushing shit uphill. The learning cliff
Don't Take the Black Pill - Andrew Kelley | SSW 2026
Alex Komoroske on Twitter / X
What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)https://t.co/sfKBVZ2zXr— Alex Komoroske (@komorama) December 5, 2025
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A slightly unerving game on technological violence induced by pseudosimplicity and increasingly awful UI.
Hello Systems by Loris Cro
I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Interlude – A Thank You, Where It’s Due — fireborn
This blog series has been a lot of yelling. Rightfully so—because a lot of Linux is broken. But this post? This one's different.
"I just find AI to be creatively soulless": Casey Hudson on the controversial tech and Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic
"I’m just really unimpressed with it."
It's Time To Rethink Everything by @t3dotgg