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At FrOSCon 2026 , I gave a talk titled Jiu Jitsu mit dem Quellcode I presented the jj version control system and also tried to make a connection to the ongoing maintenance crisis in open source. After all, newcomers often cite git as a scary thing...

Dieser Vortrag hat zwei Teile: Eine Einführung in jj, die Versionsverwaltung, und einen etwas philosophischen Teil. 1 Es gibt eine schleichende Krise in Open Source Maintenance. Man könnte jetzt das Bild aus XKCD zeigen, "someone thanklessly maintaining t

It has been a bit over a year since I wrote Some nuanced thoughts on AI . Much of what I said then still stands. On the other hand, the AI models have continued improving. Even more so, the "harness" running it has gone through multiple iterations. Back t

A while ago, I made an off-hand remark that got some followup questions. I said that in AI applications, Model Context Protocol (MCP) is no longer a favored extension model for tools. The question was essentially - Really? What to use instead? What is the

I recently spent a week in London, as one does. As I walked through the King's Cross train station, it struck me: if anything, it should be track 8 3/4 and not 9 3/4 . Let me explain. In case you have been living under a rock: in the Harry Potter book ser

My email inbox is like the pile of documents on my desk. Things that I wanted to get back to ends up moving towards the bottom, into the never-ending pile of … stuff. For the first time in a while, I have looked at the bottom - and found an inquiry from s

Last week, I visited the Bay Area for a business trip. Most of my time was spent in the South Bay, but I also spent a day in SF. In the afternoon, I went to Ocean beach and dipped my feet in the Pacific Ocean for a tiny bit. The water was pretty cold! Whe

I have a Raspberry Pi 3 with NetBSD 10, running CI jobs. Because SD cards are notoriously unreliable, I attached a USB hard drive to it. The HDD has a swap partition and scratch space for the builds, while root is on the SD. Unfortunately, some writes end

I have stuggled with writing this for a while. This has the potential to be controversial: Some people have very strong opinions on this, while my own opinion is more … nuanced. - I live in two different worlds regarding AI. During the day, I am working i

I stopped developing pkgsrc with CVS. Quick bit of background: NetBSD is still using CVS as its version control system. The decision to move to something else has been taken long ago, but the switch has not happened as of today. Working with CVS is painfu