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Drew DeVault

Founder of SourceHut. Creator of sway, wlroots, and aerc. Open source advocate and Linux developer.

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Addressing the harassment

Kiwi Farms is a web forum that facilitates the discussion and harassment of online figures and communities. Their targets are often subject to organized group trolling and stalking, as well as doxing

Rewrote my blog with Zine

15 years ago, on December 11th, 2010, at the bold age of 17, I wrote my first blog post on the wonders of the Windows Phone 7 on Blogspot. I started blogging as a kid at the behest of a family friend

tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync

So apparently rsync is slop now. When I heard, I wanted to drop a quick note on my blog to give an alternative: tar. It doesn’t do everything that rsync does, in particular identifying and skipping up

tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync

So apparently rsync is slop now. When I heard, I wanted to drop a quick note on my blog to give an alternative: tar. It doesn’t do everything that rsync does, in particular identifying and skipping up

A eulogy for Vim

Vim is important to me. I’m using it to write the words you’re reading right now. In fact, almost every word I have ever committed to posterity, through this blog, in my code, all of the docs I’ve wri

A eulogy for Vim

Vim is important to me. I’m using it to write the words you’re reading right now. In fact, almost every word I have ever committed to posterity, through this blog, in my code, all of the docs I’ve wri

The cults of TDD and GenAI

I’ve gotten a lot of flack throughout my career over my disdain towards test-driven development (TDD). I have met a lot of people who swear by it! And, I have also met a lot of people who insisted tha

The cults of TDD and GenAI

I’ve gotten a lot of flack throughout my career over my disdain towards test-driven development (TDD). I have met a lot of people who swear by it! And, I have also met a lot of people who insisted tha

OpenAI employees… are you okay?

A person died after ChatGPT encouraged suicide. The author reflects on the tragedy and wonders how OpenAI employees feel about it.

What's up with FUTO?

FUTO claims to fund open source projects but misuses the term to describe source-available commercial software with restrictive licenses.

Cloudflare bankrolls fascists

Cloudflare allegedly supports fascists in the FOSS community amid rising fascism in US politics, including concentration camps and attacks on press freedom.