29 March 2025

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Will Dormann (@wdormann@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image Upcoming Windows 11 builds won't have the ability to to install without internet connectivity and a Microsoft Account. https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2025/03/28/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-26200-5516-dev-channel/

Et tu, Grammarly?

The one where I deploy counter defences

Organic Maps (@organicmaps@mastodon.social)

GitHub has gone - long live Forgejo (@forgejo@floss.social). Fully migrated out of Microsoft’s walled garden after they blocked us: - 54k commits - 9.5k issues - 4.3k pull requests - 100k comments Everything moved. Nothing left behind. https://git.omaps.d…

Weekly Recap - 2025-03-28

Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#!

Having the “AI has arrived” conversation

Since November 2024, software has become approximately free to create. The AI revolution isn’t coming — it’s here, upending our tacit assumptions about how organizations operate, what products should do, and who your customers will be tomorrow. If you’re selli…

Catchy Advice, Boring Advice

On the other day, I was reading a post on a social network where a person who went to an interview for the position of (junior) developer asked a question at the end of it: how one can become a senior developer. He was very impressed by the answer of the inter…

MCP Servers as an Encouraging Parent

Even in the hype-driven world of LLMs, the buzz around Model Context Protocol (MCP) is hard to ignore. Which is interesting because it seems there is still a significant amount of confusion as to what MCP actually is.

Cursor Under the Hood

Exploring what Cursor, the AI Code Editor, is doing under the hood when you ask it to write code

Reading Mode

Read text nicely!

On Achieving your Dreams

My thoughs after achieving the life long goal of creating a profitable Internet business. Turns out that you must be careful what you wish for.

Nix vanity store paths

Nix is great, but it can be a bit dreary continuously looking at the endless /nix/store paths with their varied letters.

Building a CoAP application on Ariel OS

Ariel OS is an embedded operating system written in Rust, whose first version 0.1. was released recently. It is designed for "constrained devices" (a.k.a. "embedded devices" or "IoT devices"), that is, electronic devices with little power and storage – think "…

Thought on ECS

I mentioned in my year summary that I have a lot to say about ECS, and got several requests to write more about it, so I’ll do an attempt to write up my thoughts here.

Rushing Toward Rewrite | RoseSecurity Development Log

This is part three of my microblog series exploring the subtle dysfunctions that plague engineering organizations. After discussing over-abstraction as a liability and unpacking how excessive toil kills engineering teams, this post tackles a nuanced threat: wh…

Finalizers are tricker than you might think. Part 2

In the previous part we discussed why the finalizers should only deal with unmanaged resources and in this post I want to show that this is not as simple as it sounds.