Julien Kirch

Imagining the private schools administrators being yelled at because the school’s parents portal don’t include a MCP thingie, which means their customers can’t efficiently manage their children with their AI

the thing about modern software engineering is that it is so solipsist by nature, "working together" is so against the grain that we have special terminology for it, "pairing" so i guess i shouldn't be surprised when we rediscover the hard way that team work is about communication

while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

@dryad.technology

New blog post! Yet another attempt to implement secure hibernation on Linux when lockdown is enabled: codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...

The enterprise architect has mostly the same role as the rapper in a K-pop band

software developers desperate to get ci working, need only get lucky once, but users have to get lucky every time

One of my favorite bits is when a company gets so confused about something that they mint a C-level title to address it, and it's clear that only someone with a terrifying combination of ambition and lack of self-awareness would ever take it

Still thinking about a comment a read in response to "fast, cheap, or good, pick two" that responded with, "I never expected companies to pick fast twice."

Found a way to explain something I was doing for a while but could never pin: in some orgs, all things being equal or mostly equal, taking architectural decisions that makes a system more legible to non expert people like project managers can save a lots of time

There’s a new intern in the infrastructure security team and it’s again a cloud of floating eyeballs. I mean they do good work but some variety would be nice times to times.

If Roblox were more focused on B2B, they could make the metaverse happen

When someone says « this code tastes like drywall », a tech lead is a person you don’t retort to with « how do you know how drywall taste like? » because the look in their eyes makes you feel like they definitely know how it tastes.

English software security people mostly can’t work without enough gin while the French ones require some céleri rémoulade, I wonder if some other countries have similar food requirements

Remember that Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026, you’ll need to find an alternative if you use it to edit your public keys

I wonder if LinkedIn will make a partnership with a gambling site, Microsoft could even use it to spearhead a gambling business. You could gamble on when someone get or loose a job, when they get a promotion… endless opportunities.

fl studio continues to mystify me with such interface features as "knob that you turn until it says 'yes.'" what are you talking about

i think this is a contender for the stupidest line of code i've ever written

a political compass with “llms are useful” / “llms are useless” on one axis and “coding is largely solved” / “we don’t know how to program” on the other

Discovered that military people tried to standardize the language used to give orders, and of course it involved XML. You can search for« Battle Management Language », just be sure you’re ready for it.

so i reverse-engineered the code that draws InstallShield's famous background gradient and text and reimplemented gist.github.com/whitequark/2...

stop wasting your life! www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

If you see mention of the horrifying French law that bans minor from social network: the thing is mostly a feel good law without any defined way to enforce it and no punishment if not applied I don’t mean it’s not a bad thing, my point is to avoid criticizing it for wrong reasons

I have gone very far into the weeds in investigating every (I think) published mechanism for preventing authentication tokens from being stolen and how basically none of them has actually succeeded in a useful way: www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...

<5 minutes left in the meeting>

Much like the famous picture of where surviving planes had received bullet damage, it took some thought about what was happening to realize how effective they were. After helmets were introduced, head injuries increased. The story is well known but here's an actual source archive.org/details/inte...

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

Unexpected but makes sense in hindsight: for some systems, putting some CPUs in idle states won’t decrease global power consumption but allow the other CPUs to increase their frequencies because the whole system is power-constrained youtu.be/0oE9TXescUc

did a blog post of my Thoughts on the Actual State of Unreal in 2026, how it has come to this, etc etc. i've been an unreal user since 2008, and this is the worst the vibes have ever been. is there hope? perhaps www.joewintergreen.com/absolute-sta...

all the laid off coders mixing with perpetually laid off journalists might, one day, lead to the launch of a publication whose CMS doesn't suck shit to use

Asking for help: I’m used to buy tough phone cases from society 6 because they are nice and really solid but we bought an iPhone 16 e and they don’t sell cases for this models, anybody know a good enough alternative? 🙏

Surprised that nowadays so few accordion widgets triggers an accordion sound when you use them.

The Cure were really onto something when they thought of JavaScript in 1979

@baldurbjarnason.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tImN... Tool assisted speedrun of Fatctorio 1.0 in 57:21 I'm happy the used tool is not compatible with Factorio 2 and requires Windows because I'm so tempted to toy with the thing.

New links: Package registries, ROM updating, democratising software development, Microsoft mess, threat intelligence publications, error handling & concurrency archiloque.net/weekly/26-05...

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

After PATCH, the next HTTP verb should be CURSE

Pro tip: if your job use a tool that measure vulnerabilities by scanning dependencies versions against a list of known bad versions, vendoring a dependency without updating it will reduce the number of reported vulnerabilities