Jorge Schrauwen

“Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time.” ― Carl Sagan

for my #illumos friends out there i just published a video showcasing doors! i wrote some C, and then showed off some interoperability by adding in some Rust. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq9V...

autotools is the zoidberg of software factory

Welp this is terrible news blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/p...

It’s always DNS

github.com/nshalman/tai...

howcomplexsystems.fail

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

The criticism of "please don't use LLMs to contribute to my project" policies on the grounds that it's "unenforceable" is dumb. It's like asking someone to take off their shoes when they come inside. If someone expressly ignores a request like that, is it really _the request_ that's bad?

I'm so sick of hearing about fucking AI every day

Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/

I found a flowchart which helps you navigate the IT landscape

Appreciation post for how easy illumos makes sharing files over NFS.

Too on-the-nose, universe. Too on-the-nose.

If you think AI is punk rock, you don’t understand technology and you don’t understand punk rock

"Smoking Behind the Supermarket with You" anime adaptation announced. Airs in 2026. anilist.co/anime/196187... - #ヤニすう

At this juncture I’d like to point out: * we’re on the brink of a golden age of medical healing * there’s enough money in the world to solve every problem in the world * a united approach could stop the climate crisis But a small group of sociopaths seeking personal power are going to throw it away.

Darth Vader: And now your highness, we will learn the location of your rebel base. Interrogation droid enters, but it's playing the Niamos Club Mix. Princess Leia: *dancing* Oh yeah, this is my JAM! Darth Vader: Shit, wrong droid. #Andor

It’s hard not to root for the asteroid some days

It’s good to feel panic as your read the news. At least you’re not feeling nothing.

#Tailscale 1.80.0 is out, so naturally I have done the little rebase for the #illumos / #Solaris version with tun support: https://github.com/nshalman/tailscale/releases/tag/v1.80.0-sunos

Are any @oxide.computer customers hiring? While I'm great at wrangling heterogenous hardware, I wouldn't mind playing on easy mode for a while... By which I mean solving actual business problems rather than fighting hardware.

kinda want to mess around with illumos, it's come up a few times lately

github.com/nshalman/tai... is tagged. #illumos #solaris #Tailscale

Second Stage xkcd.com/3018

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

UK Coal xkcd.com/2992

Do we really need AMZN and MSFT to operate nuclear fucking power plants, or could we perhaps just put the amazing automatic plagiarism and surveillance nightmare back in the box it came in?

Ferris Wheels xkcd.com/2973

Google Solar Cycle xkcd.com/2930

Related: I am being lured into Illumos-based operating systems by the light of actually getting to use dtrace

Sphere Tastiness xkcd.com/2893

Supersymmetry xkcd.com/2873