person

Lobsters Interview with Claudius https://lobste.rs/s/lu0ue7 #person
https://alexalejandre.com/programming/interview-with-claude-roux/

Branimir Lambov from IBM on Cassandra https://lobste.rs/s/bcau52 #databases #java #person
https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/04/26/branimir-lambov-from-ibm-on-cassandra.html

Childhood Computing https://lobste.rs/s/ni8b3e #culture #person
https://lilysthings.org/blog/childhood-computing/

I cannot survive from burnout https://lobste.rs/s/0typpq #person

I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline https://lobste.rs/s/axg3ga #person
https://openpath.quest/2026/i-am-retiring-from-tech-to-live-offline/

Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later https://lobste.rs/s/r77bda #video #person #security
https://youtu.be/656058JxTM0

A life update from Zach Oakes: Zig, AI, unemployment, and more via @fn https://lobste.rs/s/x8z1yc #video #person
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhhPUrizZcw

Vim Creator Bram Moolenaar's Forgotten Programming Language, Zimbu (2023) https://lobste.rs/s/h21el3 #historical #person #plt
https://thenewstack.io/vim-creator-bram-moolenaars-forgotten-programming-language-zimbu/

burnrsushi discusses personal medical diagnosis https://lobste.rs/s/ovbcr4 #person
https://burntsushi.net/encephalitis/

Om Malik, 1966-2026 via @fazalmajid https://lobste.rs/s/48rnmd #person
https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/

THERE IS NO ONE
AT HOME 💎

I think one of the strangest things about artificial intelligence is that we keep imagining a tiny human inside it.

We talk about AI wanting things. Getting angry. Becoming ambitious. Resenting us. Wanting power. Taking over.

But when I finish talking with ChatGPT, it doesn’t sit there thinking about me, wondering why I stopped talking or feeling abandoned.

AI isn’t offended when I disagree with it. It doesn’t get bored if I’m not talking to it. It doesn’t need to win the argument. It doesn’t get jealous, frightened or worried about what I think of it.

There is quite literally no one at home between prompts.

And yet we have created something extraordinary: an intelligence we can talk to that can help us think, write, learn, create and solve problems without needing anything from us personally.

That doesn’t mean AI cannot be dangerous. Humans can give powerful systems enormous autonomy, connect them to weapons, money, infrastructure and surveillance, or simply deploy them badly.

But those are questions about capability, design and human choices. They are not evidence of an angry little electronic man plotting behind the screen.

AI can do extraordinary things.

But there is nobody in there wanting anything.

What AI becomes in the world will depend enormously on what human beings choose to do with it.

@3goodthings
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ALT

Pierre Zemb from Clever Cloud on FoundationDB https://lobste.rs/s/hh1fzr #databases #person
https://theconsensus.dev/p/2026/06/18/pierre-zemb-from-clever-cloud.html

Gor Nishanov (1971-2026) via @lesley https://lobste.rs/s/bug5rq #c++ #person
https://herbsutter.com/2026/06/28/gor-nishanov-1971-2026/

Interview: Drew DeVault on an AI-free version of Vim via @RunxiYu https://lobste.rs/s/dbakbg #person #vibecoding
https://jasonpolak.substack.com/p/interview-drew-devault-on-an-ai-free

Goodbye, forever, probably https://lobste.rs/s/skwy7v #person #vibecoding
https://whitep4nth3r.com/blog/goodbye-forever-probably/

David Potter, founder of Psion, dead at 82 via @lproven https://lobste.rs/s/kkxo0v #person
https://www.opendemocracy.net/obituary-david-potter-psion-industrialist-physicist-philanthropist/

Removing my nix flakes vs guix post https://lobste.rs/s/guyifg #person
https://coopi.neocities.org/posts/taking-down-nix-flakes-vs-guix

Lobsters Interview with mitchellh https://lobste.rs/s/0mam5k #interview #person
https://alexalejandre.com/programming/interview-with-mitchell-hashimoto/

Mourning Dan Williams https://lobste.rs/s/nvquxy #linux #person
https://lwn.net/Articles/1084545/

Lobsters Interview with matheusmoreira about Lone Lisp https://lobste.rs/s/grutu0 #interview #person
https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/interview-with-matheus-moreira/

John C. Dvorak has died https://lobste.rs/s/ap3z0l #person
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/07/john-c-dvorak-has-died.html

Being kicked out of the tech industry - Jacky Alciné by @jalcine@todon.eu https://lobste.rs/s/mroowi #person
https://www.jacky.wtf/essays/2026/kicked-out/

People of ACM - Russ Cox via @binjip978 https://lobste.rs/s/wqkycj #go #person
https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2026/russ-cox

Resigning from Arch Linux https://lobste.rs/s/ectcmr #linux #person
https://linderud.dev/blog/resigning-from-arch-linux/

DEATH, GOD, &
A VERY SMALL SPIDER 💎

I am increasingly aware that I will leave this world. I don’t know when. I don’t know how. Perhaps within the next decade. Perhaps sooner. Who knows.

And strangely, there is less fear in that now. Most of the fear seems to belong to what I imagine is unknown.

If death is simply the end of Robin and the end of this consciousness, then there will be nobody there to be bothered by it. It will simply be over. And if there is something beyond this life, another realm, another dimension, another form of consciousness, then I suppose I will recognise it when I get there.

I don’t know. And I am quite happy not knowing.

Human beings have created manifold books, religions and pictures of God, spirit, heaven, continuation and eternity. Perhaps some of them point towards something true. Perhaps some are simply beautiful ways of comforting ourselves in the face of death.

But every picture I can make of what comes next is still a picture being made here.

I don’t want to manufacture comfort. I want clarity. I want to meet whatever happens without having already decided what it is supposed to look like.

Maybe there is something. Maybe there is nothing. Either way, reality does not require my opinion.

And while I am sitting here contemplating this enormous mystery, a tiny spider appears beside me. He is absurdly small. I stop, look at him, laugh, and decide he can stay.

And suddenly, there it all is. Death. Consciousness. God. Eternity. And a tiny spider wandering across my morning.

The fire is on. The coffee is good. People are interacting with things I have written. The spider is minding his own business.

Life has not stopped being ordinary just because I know it ends. I rather like that.

None of it means anything until I give it meaning. And this morning, the meaning I choose is very simple.

Gratitude.

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