2026-03-12 Thu
- overheard, about the weather this time of year: it's "wrong-coat season"
- long live GNU and Open Source
- considered using the downstream fork of Nix by the company DeterminateSystems and decided against it.
- ten years ago, I argued for React against VueJS because I thought that software was so hard and expensive it needed a big company behind it to make it flexible, fast, and rock solid in a world with a rapidly changing deployable surface area.
- now with the rise of AI/Agent/Agentic/Engineer/ing, I think it's risky to rely on a product from a company, as that company has incentives to exploit you and your data over time. our incentives are not aligned.
- open source + gnu is the new way forward. if we combine our forces - and our ai agents, we can build a better world, designed by and for individuals, not companies.
- squinting at the horizon: an army of pitchforks
- had a thought during Meditation that perhaps it's time to stop being as public about interest in AI
- funny homonym: pitchfork
- the original word, mid-1500s was a fork meant to help farmers move pitch, aka tar, resin, or sticky substances.
- but there are also tuning forks in music.
- Filed