Followers, are you following me on Mastodon yet?

Checking in to see if there’s anything interesting in the xz discourse from folks who haven’t made the jump to a network not run by an overt fascist and it is amazing how dead it is. If you’re in the software biz and you are not yet on mastodon you should really get over there.

New Blog: Software Needs To Be More Expensive: Software, like coffee, is too artificially cheap, and we need to make it more expensive. I have one suggestion for how to do that. blog.glyph.im/2024/03/softwa…

Sharing from glyph on Mastodon: 'I want everyone who has an open source dependency to read this message: mail-archive.com/xz-devel@tukaa…'

re Evan Boehs' writeup of the xz situation: boehs.org/node/everythin…

New Blog: The Hat: If you want me to keep doing… whatever this is… now’s the time to support it! blog.glyph.im/2024/03/the-ha…

New Blog: DBXS 0.1.0: Today there is a new release of my database access and query organizer library with support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and asyncio. blog.glyph.im/2024/03/dbxs-0…

New Blog: Let Me Tell You A Secret: In which I provide you with hundreds of dollars worth of software consulting, for free, in a single blog post. blog.glyph.im/2024/02/let-me…

New Blog: The Macintosh: Today is its 40th anniversary, but what is the Macintosh? blog.glyph.im/2024/01/the-ma…

New Blog: Unsigned Commits: I’m not going to cryptographically sign my git commits, and you shouldn’t either. blog.glyph.im/2024/01/unsign…

New Blog: Your Text Editor (Probably) Isn’t Malware Any More: Updating a post from 2015, I briefly discuss the modern editor-module threat landscape. blog.glyph.im/2024/01/no-mor…

New Blog: Okay, I’m A Centrist I Guess: Market simulator video game mechanics reveal the core of human soul. blog.glyph.im/2024/01/a-cent…

New Blog: Annotated At Runtime: PEP 593 is a bit vague on how you’re supposed to actually consume arguments to Annotated; here is my proposal. blog.glyph.im/2023/12/annota…

New Blog: Safer, Not Later: How “Move Fast and Break Things” ruined the world by escaping the context that it was intended for. blog.glyph.im/2023/12/safer-…

New Blog: iOS Mail To Omnifocus Task: Convert messages in the Mail app built in to iOS into tasks in OmniFocus. blog.glyph.im/2023/11/ios-ma…

New Blog: Get Your Mac Python From Python.org: There are many ways to get Python installed on macOS, but for most people the version that you download from Python.org is best. blog.glyph.im/2023/08/get-yo…

New Blog: Bilithification: Not sure how to do microservices? Split your monolith in half. blog.glyph.im/2023/07/bilith…

T. Wouters we all want to think we're still zero cool, but in reality we all became mister the plague long ago