Stories by zdw

I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor

How Over-Engineering Became the New Technical Debt in Distributed Systems

Welcome to Town Al-Gasr

git-pkgs: A Git subcommand that indexes dependency changes into a database

Package management is a wicked problem

Toilet Maker Toto's Shares Get Unlikely Boost from AI Rush

The 2026 Linux Summer Games [video]

Autodesk burns the village to feed AI and the Cloud – cuts 7% of workforce

How a band of engineers anticipated the cloud and remade the internet

Why there's no European Google? And why it is a good thing

A Protocol for Package Management

Humanizer: A Claude Code skill that removes signs of AI-generated writing

Why Intel stopped making motherboards

Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga

Migrating 13,000 Comments from Drupal to Hugo

Agentic AI and the Mythical Agent-Month

Google temporarily disabled YouTube's advanced captions without warning

Text Is King

Internet Archive's Storage

The Empathy of Instructions

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