Tempted to write a post that software development lost the plot a long time ago, and that the recent LLM developments are merely the icing on that cake. Software these days is not the painstaking work by people like @bagder or @hyc or @vitaut who write the best code they possibly can. Over the past decade, "the software world" has been developing in a very different way than that.
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Holy heck, #LookMumNoComputer will be at Eurovision?
And with this absolute banger?
https://lookmumnocomputer.bandcamp.com/track/eins-zwei-drei
#theStudio
yay i got my 10th chrome cve!!
i wrote a pretty fun patch for this one too
https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_10.html
I suspect most people outside of the UK won't have heard about the post office scandal, but it seems highly relevant to learn about now (given *waves* this):
For over 15 years, the software post offices in the UK had to use contained severe bugs, particular in accounting, that everyone at Fujitsu/horizon and the post blissfully ignored. Over 900 (!!!) postmasters were sentenced for alleged theft and fraud, some went to jail, some committed suicide. All because the software was shit and everyone who could do something about it didn't care and swept it under the rug.
Everything, including how it was uncovered, about this seems bizarre and Kafkaesque, but we better prepare for it to happen more often.
CVE-2026-3784 beat a new #curl record. This flaw existed in curl source code for 24.97 years before it was discovered.
Illustrated in the slightly hard-to-read graph below. The average age of a curl vulnerability when reported is eight years.
Me? Trolling the other microcontroller vendors? Surely not! Maybe if they had bothered to do something about the most common source of vulnerabilities at some point in the last few decades, the could have been on the other side of the sign...
RIP Tony Hoare. His obituaries are talking about quicksort, but I think his most notable accomplishments are Communicating Sequential Processes, the Occam programming language, and the Transputer, an early example of a parallel processor
https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html?m=1