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Navigation logs from the Ruby nebula—code adventures, cosmic experiments, and interstellar debugging missions.
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How to Build an OS Without Being a Degenerate
The follow-up to The Framebuffer People. Half the angry comments asked the same question underneath the anger: okay, so what should I build? Here is the long answer. Eleven rules for building an operating system that teaches you something, with your digni
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The Framebuffer People: I Cloned Every OS on r/osdev and Found Five Real Ones
I spent two months cloning almost every OS posted to r/osdev and running the code through an analyzer. Almost everything was a reskin of a reskin of Linux, and almost nothing boots on real hardware. Then I said so in public, and 137 comments taught me mor
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OpenSourceShit Part 4: The Closing
MongoDB closed to fight AWS in 2018. Elastic closed to fight AWS in 2021, then reopened in 2024 once the fight was over. Ghostty, tldraw, NetBSD, and QEMU closed in January 2026, and there's no company to make peace with this time. Two different closings,
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OpenSourceShit Part 3: The Impersonators
Parts 1 and 2 were about people who at least pretend to contribute. This one isn't. Cloned repos, faked commit history, blockchain-rotated malware C2, and a takedown that got re-squatted within a day. The impersonators don't want your codebase. They want
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OpenSourceShit Part 2: The Parasites
curl and Jazzband and Ghostty didn't close the door because of an abstract "AI problem." They closed it because of specific people. Eight archetypes, all real, all currently in your notifications.
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