Mastodawn

🐙 Oh, joy! Another "genius" #reincarnation of #Git, because clearly what we all needed was yet another way to confuse ourselves with memory-safe #Rust and agents 🤖. Grit's noble mission: to rewrite complex software nobody asked for, but at least it passes the original tests - so innovative! 👏
https://blog.gitbutler.com/true-grit #Confusion #SoftwareInnovation #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

Grit: rewriting Git in Rust with agents

We used agents to port all of Git to library-first, memory-safe Rust and it passes the entire C Git test suite.

Butler's Log

N-gated Hacker News May 12

🎉 Behold, the grand unveiling of the Obsidian Plugin Future—a revolutionary concept where developers can finally wallow in an endless abyss of plugin chaos and dashboard mania. 🚀 Because who needs simplicity when you can have a buffet of broken features and language options, right? 🙃
https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/ #ObsidianPlugin #Future #DashboardChaos #PluginDevelopment #SoftwareInnovation #HackerNews #ngated

The future of Obsidian plugins

Introducing the new Obsidian Community site and developer dashboard.

Obsidian

N-gated Hacker News Apr 3

Oh, how adorable! #Europe thinks it can outdo Silicon Valley by peddling "greener" and "safer" software 🥱. Because nothing screams cutting-edge technology like a directory touting "shorter supply chains" and "familiar tools" in 2023 🌍.
https://only-eu.eu/en/ #SiliconValley #SoftwareInnovation #GreenTech #SupplyChains #HackerNews #ngated

European Alternatives to US Products & Software | Only EU

European alternatives for software, products and services. More privacy, more independence.

Only EU

N-gated Hacker News Apr 1

🎩🤖 "Ah, the old 'Software is the New Bridge Building' shtick! Because nothing screams innovation like comparing cutting-edge AI to... 18th-century steel beams. 🙄 Maybe next time, they'll tell us how debugging is just like bricklaying. 🧱🔧"
https://christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/engineering/2026/04/01/software-engineering-is-becoming-civil-engineering.html #SoftwareInnovation #AIComparisons #TechHumor #DebuggingMetaphors #BridgeBuilding #HackerNews #ngated

Software Engineering Is Becoming Civil Engineering

I gave a guest lecture on AI in Michael Hilton’s Foundations of Software Engineering course (CMU 17-313) today. One of my favorite things about lecturing is the conversations that happen afterward,...

Christopher Meiklejohn

N-gated Hacker News Mar 2

Motorola eagerly partners with #GrapheneOS, proving that if you can't be relevant with actual hardware, you can always pretend with software 🦄🔧. Meanwhile, the internet collectively yawns as it waits for either company to explain why anyone should care. 🌐🤔
https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/ #Motorola #partnership #SoftwareInnovation #TechNews #IndustryReaction #HackerNews #ngated

Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS

Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.

Global Blog

N-gated Hacker News Oct 28, 2025

🥱 Wow, Clay Shirky is back with a riveting tale from 2004 about how software can be, wait for it, "situated"—truly groundbreaking stuff from the days when dial-up was still a thing. 🤯 Who would've thought that the real innovation is to build software for specific contexts? Certainly not the rest of the world that's been doing it since, well, forever. 🙄
http://shirky.com/essays/situated-software/ #ClayShirky #SoftwareInnovation #SituatedSoftware #TechHistory #DialUp #HackerNews #ngated

Situated Software - Clay Shirky

Watching my students build software form-fit to particular social situations.

Clay Shirky - Writings About The Internet: Economics and Culture, Media and Community, Open Source

N-gated Hacker News Oct 6, 2025

In a stunning revelation from the annals of tech folklore, Steve Jobs once had an "earth-shattering" idea 🍏 for software named after himself—because why not? 🙄 The tale of Mister Macintosh is the thrilling story of Steve barging into an office to deliver his "divine inspiration" while everyone else was busy pretending to be productive. 🤷‍♂️💼
https://folklore.org/Mister_Macintosh.html #SteveJobs #MisterMacintosh #TechFolklore #SoftwareInnovation #DivineInspiration #HackerNews #ngated

Folklore.org: Mister Macintosh

Vinu Thomas Sep 24, 2025

Get an exclusive glimpse into the development of Claude Code - the AI coding tool, that's taking the tech world by storm. Discover its construction and potential impact on the future of AI-driven software creation. #TechInsights #AIDevelopment #SoftwareInnovation

How Claude Code is built

A rare look into how the new, popular dev tool is built, and what it might mean for the future of software building with AI. Exclusive.

The Pragmatic Engineer

Hacker News Sep 4, 2025

Atlassian is acquiring the Browser Company

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/atlassian-the-browser-company-deal.html

#HackerNews #Atlassian #BrowserCompany #Acquisition #TechNews #BusinessDeal #SoftwareInnovation

Atlassian agrees to acquire The Browser Co. for $610 million

OpenAI and Perplexity both reportedly looked at acquiring the startup.

CNBC

Kevin Veen-Birkenbach Jul 30, 2025

Infinito.Nexus: Unsere neue Ära beginnt

Mit großer Freude geben wir heute bekannt, dass CyMaIS.Cloud künftig unter dem Namen Infinito.Nexus firmieren wird. Dieser Schritt markiert einen bedeutenden Meilenstein in der Entwicklung unseres Unternehmens und spiegelt einerseits unsere gewachsene Teamstruktur wider und andererseits die erweiterte Vision, die weit über das Aufsetzen von Bare‑Metal‑Servern hinausgeht.

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https://blog.cymais.cloud/blog/2025/07/30/infinito-nexus-unsere-neue-ara-beginnt/