Stories by birdculture

Commodified Intelligence

Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”

LLM Policies: Progress at All Costs

Blocking Your Adblocker. How to be an asshole, programmatically

How to serve trillions of tokens for trillion-parameter coding agents

Every Package Is Installed

Microservices are organizational debt disguised as architecture

Paranoia-Sans: A Conspiratorial Typeface

AI Workers' Inquiry 2026

Lobsters: Rename vibecoding to LLMs (Greasemonkey script)

30 Years of Backwards Compatibility in a Development Tool Since 1993

Clankers Made Me Build a Second Brain

Bootstrap Chain for NixOS: Building the System from a Hand-Auditable Binary Seed

How to serve trillions of tokens for trillion-parameter coding agents

Pick OS Is a Living Fossil of Computer History

A New Equal-Area Map for Interactive Computer Use (Natively Zooms to Mercator)

The Gnome LLM Policy That I Want

I want my mesh networks to be signed, not encrypted

Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers

GCC and Clang performance changed over 10 years: my experiment

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