Opinion

Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk Earlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called ...

Fact Check: Rumor has it 4chan time traveler predicted 'orange man' and WWIII. Here's the real story

An alleged screenshot of a 2006 4chan post displayed a user's warning about a dark future, predicting pandemics and World War ...
InfoQ

So You’ve Decided To Do a Technical Migration

Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap. She explains how to handle "bends in the road," from documentation and ...
TweakTown

Doom runs on everything except this AI vibe-coded Operating System

Someone spent a couple of hours with the AI-generated vibe-coded operating system Vib-OS, and it's about as bad as you'd expect, probably worse.
American Songwriter

On This Day in 1995, We Lost the “Wonderfully Weird” Singer-Songwriter, Poet, and Painter Who “Left Behind a Grand Creative Legacy and a Whole Heap of Chaos”

Vivian Stanshall, the eccentric driving force behind the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, died in a house fire March 5, 1995, at age 51.