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News-2026-Week-2

2026-06-30T19:59:55.937Z

Here are my thoughts on news across the internet this week. We touch on rent denialism, collapsing job markets, corporate productivity theater, and the many ways AI is being oversold, misused, or shoved where it doesn’t belong. Along the way I rant about enshittification, ownership (of code, hardware, and ideas), bad APIs, worse management, the slow death of the old internet, and why UNIX got it right decades ago. It’s part news roundup, part cultural autopsy, part theological and philosophical musing — ending, as usual, with a reminder to ignore the noise, give your attention to what you love, and keep your eyes on God and the horizon. It's worth what you paid for it.

Just Be Yourself ... Whoever that is

2026-06-30T12:49:26.000Z

Some of the best, simplest, and hardest advice I ever got was from a dead man.

When someone dies, we go through many different

You Cant Go Home Again

2026-06-30T06:54:00.000Z

Musing on the meaning of home and the pain of trying to go home again

Devlog Entry - 27 June 2026

2026-06-27T07:45:42.000Z

Development log entry for the week ending 27 June 2026. Improvements to libakerror logging, libakstdlib gets linked list and binary tree implementations, and I'm banging my head against libakgl to get binary space partitioning implemented correctly, as well as documentation improvements to all of these libraries.

News - 2026 - Week - 26

2026-06-23T22:21:13.000Z

Here are my takes on the news for this week. It's worth what you paid for it. Compromised accounts pushing AI-generated code into Fedora, AI lawyers winning real cases, AI replacing HR, autonomous weapons, insecure AI-written software, and the growing tension between centralized AI power and the need for affordable local compute. Alongside that, I lament how technology is being hollowed out by regulation, AI slop, and corporate control, while celebrating the people fighting back through self-hosting, small efficient software, open communities, and old hardware given new life. I celebrate humanity through reflections on online communities, strange internet hobbies, real bloggers, bedtime procrastination, and the simple joy of finding other genuine humans still making things on the web.

Devlog Entry - 18 June 2026

2026-06-18T16:47:16.000Z

Devlog entry for 18 June 2026. More ESP32 projects, including a complete Snake game.

Carrying That Weight

2026-06-08T15:32:23.000Z

Musings on what it's like to carry around your sin, and the difficulty of giving it up to God

Devlog Entry - 8 June 2026

2026-06-08T09:27:12.000Z

Devlog entry. More ESP32 projects, this time focusing on analog to digital converters, touch sensors, photoresistors, and a demo project with a joystick and WS2821 featuring my own breadboard design and no tutorial code.

Devlog Entry - 30 May 2026

2026-05-30T10:05:47.000Z

updates to my C stdlib library, several libakgl improvements (pluggable physics and rendering backends), and ESP32 projects (fun with Arduino IDE, transistors, oscilloscopes and logic analyzers!)

Devlog Entry - 18 May 2026

2026-05-15T22:04:50.000Z

Development log entry. Goodbye GitHub, C error handling library improvements, a new C standard library wrapper, and a new C SDL3 game library I'm playing with

Why Firefighting

2026-02-23T22:40:28.000Z

News 2026 Week 5

2026-02-09T06:34:21.000Z
Here are my (limited) thoughts on the news for the 5th week of 2026. It's worth what you paid for it.

News - 2026 - Week 4

2026-01-30T20:39:17.000Z
Here are my takes on the news for this week. It's worth what you paid for it.

There are two kinds of programmers

2026-01-25T08:57:43.000Z
Musings on the rift that the "AI Revolution" is exposing in the field of computer programming, that being a divide between programmers who view it as an artform, and who enjoy the act of programming itself, and those who actually do not enjoy programming, and just want to get around it faster to be more productive.

News - 2026 - Week 3

2026-01-23T07:00:51.000Z
Here's my thoughts on news across the internet this week. It's worth what you paid for it.

This Old Tool : cmdarg

2026-01-19T14:37:26.000Z

A craftsman

libakerror

2026-01-10T22:11:25.000Z
A C library I wrote for exception style error handling in C code

News - 2026 - Week 1

2026-01-08T22:11:25.000Z
Musings on android source code releases, the return of the keyboard PC, some AI workflows are just event driven architecture, sociopaths in civil service, what happens when AI interfaces replace proper APIs, and comprehensible interfaces to quantum computing chips

Smart LEGO

2026-01-06T22:11:25.000Z

Single Pane of Glass

2026-01-04T22:11:25.000Z
There are too many ways of doing the same shit across too many different mediums and platforms