Plan 9: Setting up 9front on a Raspberry Pi

The Spirit of Plan 9 on the Web

Homepage and blog of hacker/builder Jeff Lindsay, aka progrium

tractordev/wanix

A virtual environment runtime for the web, inspired by Plan 9

Running an Open Source Home Area Network

Insights on running a Home Area Network (HAN) nearly completely on open source software, including configurations and metrics.

Come for the tool, stay for the network

programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups

Why the '996' schedule is capturing the interest of Silicon Valley leadership

The "996" schedule is 12-hour shifts, 6 days a week and it's captivated Silicon Valley tech leaders. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with academic Margaret O'Mara about this workplace trend.

Optimistic Computing

I recently made two new friends: Abhinav Omprakash and Dawn Walker. Abhinav said I’m an optimist and I should write about it. Dawn said I shouldn’t try to coin any new terms. I should know better, but this essay follows Abhinav’s recommendation — and credits Dawn, in the very likely event I should have followed her advice instead. I have been alive for approximately four decades. Each of those decades was witness to its own fun brand of computering.

Jermolene — learning to program since 1978

In April 2024 I gave the opening keynote at the software industry conference “QCon London” under the title "The Home Computer That Roared: How the BBC Micro Shaped Our World".