The Compositor as a Contract
WEFT OS — Post 4 of 10. Why a Wayland compositor is an authority boundary, and why WEFT treats it as a security contract before it is architecture.
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Thoughts on software engineering, systems, and everything in between.
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Why Servo, and Why Now
WEFT OS — Post 3 of 10. Why Servo is a foundation choice, what it implies, and what it costs.
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They Were Right, Just Too Early: Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch, Sailfish
WEFT OS — Post 2 of 10. Firefox OS, Ubuntu Touch, and Sailfish OS were right about the direction of computing — and arrived before the world was ready to pay for it.
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Chat Control: the European Parliament says no. For now.
The European Parliament just voted to restrict mass scanning of private communications. This isn't the end of the dossier, but it changes the shape of the fight.
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The Desktop Is a Document
WEFT OS — Post 1 of 10. A desktop shell as an HTML document, and why that is neither a browser skin nor Electron.
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Karapace: because 'it works on my machine' is not an identity
Why I built a deterministic environment engine, how it compares to Toolbox, Distrobox, Kapsule, mise, and Homebrew, and what 'content-addressed' actually means when you're the one implementing it.
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Liquid delegation, Condorcet, and a computationally sane Schulze
A practical tour of liquid delegation as a trust graph, the Condorcet paradox, and how to compute Schulze results without hand-waving — grounded in Likwid’s implementation.
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LLMs as a Layer of Abstraction: A Personal Reflection
A reflection on LLMs as an engineering abstraction layer: productivity, authenticity, and the more important question of ownership.
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Y2K38: the bug that's been counting down since 1970
In 2038, a signed 32-bit integer runs out of room to hold time. The openSUSE community is already finding the cracks — and the results are more interesting than you'd expect.
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Dualite: a stereo plugin that refuses to pick a side
A tour of Dualite — an unreleased JUCE multi-FX where left and right get independent lives, plus two parallel lanes and a Mid/Side switch when you want the stereo field to behave like math.