The fourth book is live! It includes the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation Portable studies.
I'm really happy with the result. You can get a copy here amazon.com/dp/B0GLP3Q8HB

The cults of TDD and GenAI

drewdevault.com/2026/01/29/2...

#blog #genai #llms

I've renamed my shell project from rc => xc and started doing a bit of clean-up work to inch it towards a release:

git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/xc

Started daily driving it again and it's really quite pleasant!

"Not enough attention is paid to the fact that part of #Ubuntu's monetization strategy is to withhold security updates to non-paying users"

#canonical #linux #ubuntuserver #ubuntults #ubuntu #sysadmin

Source: floss.social/@mort/115950...

#harelang community meetup at #FOSDEM this year!

fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

Apparently new releases of xfce4 work on Sway, just run xfce4-session and it seems to be almost entirely functional

Decided to try this out again after reading this article:

overreacted.io/a-social-fil...

Reminds me of some of the design ideas I have around distributed operating systems. Really neat stuff.

At this year's FOSS Backstage, join Drew DeVault to explore how the Hare programming language community evolved from a small group of hackers to a thriving, collaborative community with an effective model of participatory governance.

Learn more: 26.foss-backstage.de...