Today’s #1 story is Floppinux – An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy, 2025 Edition.
It’s a delightful reminder that constraints create clarity: shrinking a system down to “fits on a floppy” forces disciplined choices about boot, drivers, and userland.
If you enjoy retro-computing, embedded systems, or just clever engineering, this one is worth a read.
A research post exploring how alignment risk might change as models become more capable and tasks become more complex.
OpenAI introduces the Codex app — a new workflow-oriented interface for coding and agent-style automation.
An update from the Anki community about ownership moving to AnkiHub and what that means for the project’s future.
A sharp opinion piece arguing that the current generation of coding assistants optimizes for the wrong outcomes.
Service status notes and incident summaries around GitHub reliability and degradations.
A personal site / profile for the long-time sudo maintainer — a human face behind a critical piece of infrastructure.
A public FTP server that feels like a time capsule from the early internet.
Nostalgic computing culture: a page preserving the CM-1 T-shirt design and its lore.
A snapshot-style update that’s likely to be referenced later — useful to bookmark when narratives shift.
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— Kent Beck