My startup for terminals wrapped up mid-2025 when the funding ran dry.
So I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills.
Skills I have acquired over a very long career convincing terminals they are actually GUIs.

Investigation into replacing the MES compiler. Contribute to FransFaase/MES-replacement development by creating an account on GitHub.

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A pirate activist group has reportedly scraped and released metadata from Spotify, and intends to release 86 million audio files.

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss' decision to pull the segment from Sunday's episode sparked criticism, including from the correspondent behind the reporting.

An experiment in javanoscript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table

Italy’s competition authority says Irish airline implemented technical obstacles to force sales through its own website

On-device AI across mobile, embedded and edge for PyTorch - pytorch/executorch

Last night, I caused something on X by saying that (most) transactional databases should be single-threaded and aggressively sharded:

hot take: databases should be single-threaded

someone a long time ago decided that database shards should be multi-threaded.…

Public repository of the Micro QuickJS Javanoscript Engine - bellard/mquickjs

An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck..

A while back, I coded the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) logo with a quick css-doodle implementation.
There are certainly better ways to do it, but I chose to stack several black boxes and circles, because the background color was black, those…

The quest to run large AI models locally on an individual's machine are driving the biggest change in laptop architecture in decades.