Taras Glek
taras.glek.net
Taras Glek
@taras.glek.net
LLMs, system programming

https://taras.glek.net
@humphd.bsky.social Uh oh, look what all your work on web audio lead to. Web audio traded expensive audio equipment for programming. You killed big audio!
November 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM
"Ubuntu 14.04 is meant for suffering"
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A friendly Linux filesystem maintainer told me that the Ubuntu way is to configure RHEL to reproduce Ubuntu bugs and then file bugs against RHEL(might be mixing this up with Fedora).
Thats not gonna work here!
November 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM
is there a part 3, whats retirement like?
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
So good to know that other people also enjoy understanding and fixing pre-existing code. I never got to your level, but the satisfaction was similar
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i started official part of my career fixing other people's code. After 15 years of that turned out writing new code is not that bad, especially if already know so many footguns. Makes it easier to find fun teams when switching jobs
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
neat dank is the first user of quickshell.outfoxxed.me i've seen in wild
Quickshell
A fully user customizable desktop shell
quickshell.outfoxxed.me
November 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
how did it go with niri
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 AM
i am amazed at what they did to their main user-facing products. It's like they only let b-teams touch em
November 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
i remember how every ibm product became
watson this and that and yet it was nowhere to be seen
November 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
They are the only fast provider capable of high quality inference. Ideally they stay as an independent BU with access to Intel capital
October 31, 2025 at 7:26 AM
i really enjoyed the cleverness of your strategy for fixing this
October 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM