David Pollak

@dpp
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Twin dad, Spice Labs, @liftweb founder, @ricnews & @bu_law alum, learned to be kinder from @archer_dog tweets are my own LLAP

319 ppm

the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

GitHubhttps://github.com/dpp
Bloghttps://blog.goodstuff.im
Workhttps://spicelabs.io
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Trump v US: Roberts sez no limits on Trump’s behavior

Trump threatens Roberts: Roberts sez “stop being mean to me”

Fucking moron
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/17/john-roberts-hostility-toward-judges?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Chief justice John Roberts calls for end to ‘dangerous’ hostility toward judges

Roberts did not name Donald Trump, but US president has decried ‘corrupt judges’ who ruled against him

The Guardian
Maybe we will look back on this as the period of time that clarified for all of us that fossil fuels are truly over and post-WWII universalist liberalism is absolutely worth preserving because the alternative, the alternative is… this.
huh. i missed the big anniversary like a couple of weeks ago, but https://interfluidity.com is twenty years old this month. i'm on a bit of a hiatus as my life is overwhelmed by other things, but i'm still blogging after all these years. https://drafts.interfluidity.com/archive.html
interfluidity

This year marks the 20th anniversary of my work on JRuby! I'm looking forward to sharing that story and talking about the future with folks around the world. Being able to speak at @RubyConf and @RailsWorld would be a fitting way to celebrate 20 years. I hope I'm accepted. 🤞

This was day one of #FOSSBack 2026! Thanks to everyone for attending, speaking, volunteering, and helping shape the future of Free and Open Source Software with us.

Time for a little recap: https://26.foss-backstage.de/this-was-day-one/

See you tomorrow ✨

During production of Finding Nemo, we started using Linux boxes in addition to SGIs.
Why?

3D painting software we wrote for laying out coral was written in C++ using templates, and the debug info was too large for IRIX, but was debuggable on Linux.

Was this a 32 bit vs. 64 bit issue?

No.

IRIX reserved half the address space for the kernel, while Linux only did a quarter.

So on Linux, we had 3GB, and the symbols fit.

It was a 32 bit show, both machines had 4GB max.

Plenty for Finding Nemo.

Spice Labs is giving away tastes of its Post Quantum Cryptography discovery and inventory tools

Get PQC compliance information on post-build artifacts (CBOM, static call analysis, runtime call analysis) as well as a crypto-agility rating without burdening engineering

https://www.einpresswire.com/article/900010169/spice-labs-launches-amuse-bouche-a-free-taste-of-pqc-discovery-inventory-tools

Spice Labs Launches 'Amuse Bouche,' a Free Taste of PQC Discovery/Inventory Tools

Security pros can receive a free analysis of their Post-Quantum Cryptography posture in minutes

EIN Presswire
@RuthMalan @aredridel @markstos 💯 A lot of orgs and institutions built up value systems around velocity because it was so costly they assumed it to be the valuable part. Now that the cost of velocity is in freefall, those that valued it are in turmoil, or trying to shed velocity cost without realizing they are shedding comprehension value. Orgs that already recognized the value is comprehension might fare better. But the next few years feel really uncertain still.