Michal Wallace on Narrative Programming: Why Learn J when LLMs Code? - Oct 2026
What’s left to teach when AI codes? Building a system model in your head is the slowest part of programming, what’s still worth understanding?
Peter Bex on CHICKEN Scheme - Sep 2026
Chicken Scheme maintainer, optimizer and Postgres fan
Matheus Moreira on Lone Lisp - Jul 2026
A medical doctor implemented a Lisp on the Linux kernel with direct system calls without even a C stdlib dependency.
Interview With Mitchell Hashimoto - Jul 2026
Ghostty and Terraform maker and Hashicorp founder talks about open source, terminals and Zig.
Interview With John Earnest - Mar 2026
John Earnest (Internet_Janitor) empowers creativity with Decker, WigglyPaint, Lil, oK!
Interview With Nathan Goldbaum - Mar 2026
Nathan Goldbaum helped make Python multithreaded! He shared his fine thoughts and insights on many topics like Mercurial and Jujutsuwith me.
Interview With Steve Klabnik - Feb 2026
Steve Klabnik wrote the Rust Book, Jujutsu for Everyone and worked at Oxide
Interview With Akseli Lahtinen - Dec 2025
KDE Plasma developer and game builder
Interview With Bakpakin - Dec 2025
Calvin Rose (Bakpakin) made Janet. I asked him about the project and community.
Interview With Susam Pal - Oct 2025
Susam builds tiny, lightweight, minimalist tools for programmers and scholars.
Interview With Matklad - Aug 2025
Matklad built a lot of Rust tooling and now works at Tigerbeetle.
Interview With Icefox - Aug 2025
Icefox is building Garnet, a small Rust
Interview With Technomancy - Jul 2025
Technomancy made Leinigen, leads the Fennel project and makes beautiful games!
To Forge Deeper Thought - Jul 2024
The curiosity to bravely multisociate insights from all fields breeds innovation.
The Future of Pro User Software - Sep 2023
Better abstractions and simpler environments will free our minds and creativity
Open Standards - Sep 2023
Why did XMPP fail?
Big Open Source - May 2023
tl;dr: Open source is a moat for big tech. SaaS is the best startups can do right now.
SaaS Propaganda - Jan 2023
I play devil’s advocate, steelmanning SaaS’ business use.
Docker the Company's Death - Jul 2022
How to commercialize open source?