Dreams of Code retweeted
Many of you saying the GPL “is anti-open source” need to wake up and take a history lesson: the GPL is maybe the greatest gift Stallman could have bestowed onto a free (as in freedom) society. Copy left prevents entities from taking open and free code, close sourcing it, and building proprietary software ontop of it. Copy left compels those entities selling/distributing products with GPL bits to also open source their code under GPL.
Linux has been GPL for 30+ years and has led to an explosion in open and free distros, innovations, and cross-industry collaboration. MIT and Apache are free but have near zero restrictions: one could argue that code that is simple available to lift and shift is not free, it is pillageable.
I commend the Asahi maintainers for making the difficult re-licensing decision which aligns their project much closer to how Linux distros are typically licensed. I commend them for standing up to bad actors laundering their code through LLMs, and obfuscating their work.
Linux has been GPL for 30+ years and has led to an explosion in open and free distros, innovations, and cross-industry collaboration. MIT and Apache are free but have near zero restrictions: one could argue that code that is simple available to lift and shift is not free, it is pillageable.
I commend the Asahi maintainers for making the difficult re-licensing decision which aligns their project much closer to how Linux distros are typically licensed. I commend them for standing up to bad actors laundering their code through LLMs, and obfuscating their work.
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There’s never been a better time to be a Polymath.
If there's anything that 2026 has taught me, it's to reconsider the value of specializing in a single field.
If there's anything that 2026 has taught me, it's to reconsider the value of specializing in a single field.
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Dreams of Code retweeted
@dreamsofcode_io is one of the few coding youtube channels whose new videos get me excited
they're always very well edited and show how cool programming is (and used to be in some nostalgic sense)
they're always very well edited and show how cool programming is (and used to be in some nostalgic sense)
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This scene is one of my biggest inspirations for recent YouTube videos.
David Fincher is one of the few (if not only) directors to have made a coding scene feel genuinely cinematic and entertaining.
youtube.com/watch?v=BPazh2…
David Fincher is one of the few (if not only) directors to have made a coding scene feel genuinely cinematic and entertaining.
youtube.com/watch?v=BPazh2…
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If they ever do, I can finally do my video on it
Hey @zeddotdev team,
315 days since the last GPUI release.
523 commits to crates/gpui.
Just take 5 min to publish 0.3.0 today, not tomorrow, not later, please...
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FYI - YouTube changed how they tracked views 8 days ago, leading to ~3x higher numbers for many creators.
The old metric is now called “engaged views”. That would be the correct number to compare against.
support.google.com/youtube/thread…
The old metric is now called “engaged views”. That would be the correct number to compare against.
support.google.com/youtube/thread…
It took the first podcast with Lex over a year to cross a million views. It's taken the second just 5 days. Acceleration is everywhere!
Also, we really shouldn't call these "podcasts". At a combined 11 hour 24 minutes, it's more like an audio book! 😂
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Dreams of Code retweeted
No this false. We don’t configure using bash. We configure by atomically swapping a symlink or mountpoint. One operation. Implemented in rust these days. You can run a Nixos system without any bash. We even have a profile for that. Bash is only mandatory during build time
all linux distros are just piles of bash scripts
except for nixos, which is configured using an advanced lazy functional programming language...
...which evaluates to a pile of bash scripts
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