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<updated>2026-06-24T11:51:11.477Z</updated>
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<name>Andrew Kesterson</name>
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<entry>
<title>News - 2026 - Week - 26</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/06/23/News-2026-Week-26/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/06/23/News-2026-Week-26/</id>
<published>2026-06-24T02:21:13.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-24T11:51:11.477Z</updated>
<summary type="html">Here are my takes on the news for this week. It&#39;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.</summary>
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<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
<category term="Current Events" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Current-Events/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Devlog Entry - 18 June 2026</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/06/18/Devlog-20260618/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/06/18/Devlog-20260618/</id>
<published>2026-06-18T20:47:16.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-18T21:14:57.195Z</updated>
<summary type="html">Devlog entry for 18 June 2026. More ESP32 projects, including a complete Snake game.</summary>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Carrying That Weight</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/06/08/Carrying-That-Weight/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/06/08/Carrying-That-Weight/</id>
<published>2026-06-08T19:32:23.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-08T20:01:32.977Z</updated>
<summary type="html">Musings on what it&#39;s like to carry around your sin, and the difficulty of giving it up to God</summary>
<category term="Faith" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Faith/"/>
<category term="Philosophy" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Philosophy/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Devlog Entry - 8 June 2026</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/06/08/Devlog-20260608/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/06/08/Devlog-20260608/</id>
<published>2026-06-08T13:27:12.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-06-08T16:25:05.259Z</updated>
<summary type="html">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.</summary>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Devlog Entry - 30 May 2026</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/05/30/Devlog-20260530/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/05/30/Devlog-20260530/</id>
<published>2026-05-30T14:05:47.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-05-30T15:06:46.645Z</updated>
<summary type="html">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!)</summary>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Devlog Entry - 18 May 2026</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/05/15/Devlog-20260518/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/05/15/Devlog-20260518/</id>
<published>2026-05-16T02:04:50.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-05-30T14:56:27.458Z</updated>
<summary type="html">Development log entry. Goodbye GitHub, C error handling library improvements, a new C standard library wrapper, and a new C SDL3 game library I&#39;m playing with</summary>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Why Firefighting</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/02/23/Why-Firefighting/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/02/23/Why-Firefighting/</id>
<published>2026-02-24T03:40:28.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-03-25T12:14:48.503Z</updated>
<summary type="html">&lt;h2 id=&quot;Start-with-Why&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Start-with-Why&quot; class=&quot;headerlink&quot; title=&quot;Start with Why&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a</summary>
<category term="Philosophy" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Philosophy/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>News 2026 Week 5</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/02/09/News-2026-Week-5/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/02/09/News-2026-Week-5/</id>
<published>2026-02-09T11:34:21.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-02-09T12:09:07.329Z</updated>
<summary type="html">Here are my (limited) thoughts on the news for the 5th week of 2026. It&#39;s worth what you paid for it.</summary>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
<category term="Current Events" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Current-Events/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>News - 2026 - Week 4</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/30/News-2026-Week-4/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/30/News-2026-Week-4/</id>
<published>2026-01-31T01:39:17.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-01-31T17:20:03.149Z</updated>
<summary type="html">Here are my takes on the news for this week. It&#39;s worth what you paid for it.</summary>
<category term="Philosophy" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Philosophy/"/>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
<category term="Current Events" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Current-Events/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>There are two kinds of programmers</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/25/Two-kinds-of-programmers/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/25/Two-kinds-of-programmers/</id>
<published>2026-01-25T13:57:43.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-01-25T15:57:34.000Z</updated>
<summary type="html">Musings on the rift that the &quot;AI Revolution&quot; 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.</summary>
<category term="Philosophy" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Philosophy/"/>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>News - 2026 - Week 3</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/23/News-2026-Week-3/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/23/News-2026-Week-3/</id>
<published>2026-01-23T12:00:51.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-01-23T15:24:30.203Z</updated>
<summary type="html">Here&#39;s my thoughts on news across the internet this week. It&#39;s worth what you paid for it.</summary>
<category term="Philosophy" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Philosophy/"/>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
<category term="Current Events" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Current-Events/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>This Old Tool : cmdarg</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/19/This-Old-Tool-cmdarg/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/19/This-Old-Tool-cmdarg/</id>
<published>2026-01-19T19:37:26.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-05-21T12:23:26.994Z</updated>
<summary type="html">&lt;center&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;A craftsman&#39;s toolbox full of old tools (shutterstock)&quot; src=&quot;/images/toolbox-shutterstock.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/center&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A craftsman</summary>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>News-2026-Week-2</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/16/News-2026-Week-2/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/16/News-2026-Week-2/</id>
<published>2026-01-16T15:24:09.041Z</published>
<updated>2026-01-16T15:26:34.871Z</updated>
<summary type="html">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 doesnt 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. Its 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&#39;s worth what you paid for it.</summary>
<category term="Books" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Books/"/>
<category term="Leadership" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Leadership/"/>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
<category term="Current Events" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Current-Events/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>libakerror</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/10/libakerror/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/10/libakerror/</id>
<published>2026-01-11T03:11:25.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-05-21T12:28:49.565Z</updated>
<summary type="html">A C library I wrote for exception style error handling in C code</summary>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>News - 2026 - Week 1</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/08/News-2026-Week-1/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/08/News-2026-Week-1/</id>
<published>2026-01-09T03:11:25.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-01-11T03:17:51.248Z</updated>
<summary type="html">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</summary>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
<category term="Current Events" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Current-Events/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Smart LEGO</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/06/Smart-LEGO/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/06/Smart-LEGO/</id>
<published>2026-01-07T03:11:25.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-01-11T03:17:27.144Z</updated>
<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;a</summary>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Single Pane of Glass</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2026/01/04/Single-Pane-of-Glass/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2026/01/04/Single-Pane-of-Glass/</id>
<published>2026-01-05T03:11:25.000Z</published>
<updated>2026-01-11T03:17:00.681Z</updated>
<summary type="html">There are too many ways of doing the same shit across too many different mediums and platforms</summary>
<category term="Technology" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Technology/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Socrates got a raw deal</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2025/01/04/Socrates-got-a-raw-deal/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2025/01/04/Socrates-got-a-raw-deal/</id>
<published>2025-01-04T20:06:30.000Z</published>
<updated>2025-07-20T23:35:28.152Z</updated>
<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;If you dont know already, &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates&quot;&gt;Socrates&lt;/a&gt; was a Greek philosopher who lived in Athens a</summary>
<category term="Books" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Books/"/>
<category term="Philosophy" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Philosophy/"/>
<category term="History" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/History/"/>
<category term="Liberal Education" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Liberal-Education/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Advice for New Managers : Part 3</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2024/03/08/new-manager-pt3/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2024/03/08/new-manager-pt3/</id>
<published>2024-03-08T05:10:28.000Z</published>
<updated>2025-07-20T23:35:28.152Z</updated>
<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Welcome back to my series of advice for new managers. In the previous post, &lt;a href=&quot;/2024/03/05/new-manager-pt2/&quot;&gt;Advice for New</summary>
<category term="Leadership" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Leadership/"/>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Advice for New Managers : Part 2</title>
<link href="https://aklabs.net/2024/03/05/new-manager-pt2/"/>
<id>https://aklabs.net/2024/03/05/new-manager-pt2/</id>
<published>2024-03-05T17:10:28.000Z</published>
<updated>2024-03-31T16:10:27.030Z</updated>
<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Welcome back to my series of advice for new managers. In the previous post, &lt;a href=&quot;/2024/03/03/new-manager-pt1/&quot;&gt;Advice for New</summary>
<category term="Leadership" scheme="https://aklabs.net/categories/Leadership/"/>
</entry>
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