From pioneering game engines to Google’s FlatBuffers and a new challenger to Rust and C++, Dutch software engineer Wouter van Oortmerssen has spent more than three decades rethinking how software should work. Most developers spend their careers mastering existing programming languages and tools. Wouter van Oortmerssen has spent his career building alternatives. Known online as…
Google is removing one of Gmail’s most useful features for small businesses. But you don’t need an expensive Google Workspace subscription to keep using your professional email address. For years, Gmail offered a convenient way to manage multiple email addresses from one inbox. You could receive messages from your business domain and reply using that…
When an employee or freelancer leaves your company, keeping their Google Workspace account active means paying for a license you no longer need. However, deleting the account without proper preparation can result in losing valuable emails, documents, and business information. Here’s how to off board users safely. Step 1: Create a Central Email Archive A…
For decades, software engineering has operated around one fundamental constraint: humans write code, and writing code takes time. AI is rapidly eliminating that constraint. And the consequences are becoming impossible to ignore. In a fascinating engineering post, Anthropic revealed that it had replaced Git, one of the foundational tools of modern software development, with a…
One of the most common concerns about AI in software development goes like this: If companies stop hiring junior developers because AI can do junior-level work. Who will become the senior developers of the future? It sounds obvious. Seniors do not appear out of nowhere. They start as juniors, make mistakes, review code, debug broken…
Microsoft has released WSL 3.0.1, and the biggest change is not another redesign of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It is something potentially more useful: WSL Containers, or WSLc, is now generally available. The release gives Windows developers a Microsoft-built container runtime integrated directly with WSL, reducing the need for a separate container platform for…
Both were born in 1969. Both became obsessed with operating systems. Both believed they could build something better than what was available to them. But their stories went in almost opposite directions. Linus Torvalds built Linux and eventually coordinated one of the largest collaborative software projects in history. Terry Davis built TempleOS largely by himself:…
I recently asked for a simple architecture design for a small software project. What I got back was a long document full of database types, framework terminology, implementation details, and raw diagram syntax. Technically, the information was there, but I had to work far too hard to understand it. This is becoming a common problem…
AI has spent the last few years becoming spectacularly good at talking (and coding). The problem is that most software doesn’t need to talk, it needs to decide. Should this transaction be blocked? Who should handle this request? Should we escalate, retry or stop? Today we often ask a giant LLM to read the situation,…
“Linux” is not an operating system, it’s the kernel: the layer between applications and hardware that manages CPU time, memory, devices and other resources. What we actually use is a Linux distribution. Linux plus the tools, libraries, package manager, desktop and decisions around it. That is why Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Red Hat and Arch can…
