software
Death by Yes
I've Spent 43 Years Securing Systems. Here's Why I Don't Trust Software That Can't Say No.
John Crenshaw
Privacy
You Built a Network of Snitches
You didn't get hacked. You just bought a bunch of devices that were designed to spy on you. Time to take your network back.
Why I Started Writing Rust in Retirement
I retired in March 2024 after 40 years of writing software. A decade at Salesforce, and before that a long trail of jobs going back to the early 80s. I was done with sprints and Jira tickets and getting paged at 2 AM, it was time to relax. I don&
wayland
Wayland in 2026: The 'Not Stable' Myth Needs to Die
The arguments against Wayland are frozen in 2020. The technology moved on.
github
Why I Left GitHub
Microsoft is training AI on your code without consent. I moved to Codeberg.
linux
Distro Hopping to Nowhere: How I Landed on Vanilla Arch for COSMIC
A year of bad decisions, documented for your entertainment.