A weird effect of AI on Open Source maintainership
I’ve heard so much about open source projects having a problem of getting overwhelmed by PRs that fix bugs that add new features, but add hundreds of lines o...
Welcome to Folkwolf.net
Folkwolf.net has been my home on the internet since 1998. It's had a webserver and email server on it since 1999, and it's had a blog since 2003.
Recent posts
The retro future renaissance of the terminal emulator
In 2020, when I took over Terminator, I was seriously worried about the state of the terminal emulator ecosphere. It seemed like nobody wanted to write or m...
Recent work on this server
The folkwolf has been up and down like a yoyo in the past couple of days, and for anyone affected by the outage, I’m very sorry. For a long time I avoided u...
See also: Canada
He’s talking about Australia, but the exact same thing can be said of Canada, and Canadians
Broken gets fixed, shoddy lasts forever
I originally wrote this in 2009, I still return to it often.
The weirdest country
So, on a trip to Rome a few years back, I was wandering down Via Condotti around the ritzy neighborhood around the Spanish Steps, and I happened upon this Gr...
Cory Doctorow on AI
I don’t often fully agree with Cory Doctorow, but his heart is in the right place, and he’s more often right than wrong. He’s working through his thinking o...
God save us from Millenial YouTube “Experts”
Speaking as somebody who worked at an ISP during the .com bubble this guy is really, really wrong on the causes of the .com bubble bursting
Why I love Siberian Huskies
This is how a border collie tackles an Agility course
Parliament Hill Construction Video
Good breakdown of what they’re actually doing at Parliament Hill in #Ottawa. Much better than the gov’t has done so far, at any rate.