Macleod Sawyer

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cyberneticist.

Director (CEO) @ DNX Industries, a modular robotics and security laboratory — dnxi.org.

Current hobby: Developing QXZ (pronounced, Quirks), my own radically insane programming language and meta-operating system. This is my twenty year 'trip', a project I don't intend to reach 1.0 for the next twenty years (eighteen years to go!).

Used to host my own instance, rm -rf'd the server before migrating back, might work on building back up here again.

homepagehttps://macleodsawyer.com
DNX Industrieshttps://dnxi.org

I wrote some words for TechCrunch about how North Korean hackers took weeks to hack the top developer of one of the web's most popular open-source projects, Axios. Increasingly difficult to defend against well-resourced and persistent hackers when you're a small team or lone developer.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/06/north-koreas-hijack-of-one-of-the-webs-most-used-open-source-projects-was-likely-weeks-in-the-making/

North Korea's hijack of one of the web's most used open source projects was likely weeks in the making | TechCrunch

North Korean hackers pushed out malicious updates to a popular open source project by hacking a top developer's computer in a long-running campaign.

TechCrunch

@RoboticistDuck happy to still see you over on here (I follow your linked account on bsky).

I rarely use socials these days, are you still in japan? certainly a different view than your normal!

Truth be told, I am definitely post-pre-post-burnout at this point. Spent nearly four years wrapped up in one project I never wanted to finish—yet, here we are, it’s done, and this is after spending three years trying to find a new way to grow plants, that never worked (well, one did, but pretty sure it was a fluke - yeah I know "new way to "grow plants??", crazy stuff, I'm a bit off kilter, but I still believe in it).

Now I’m juggling so many "next" big universal things my mind’s starting to fracture, and the whole process feels more and more hollow, the banality of it all.

I've been working on the design of my new language for a year now, I've been rewriting the parser/compiler on a constant cycle, only to end up with something… well, let’s just say strange. It works, sure, but it’s more of a twenty-year puzzle that I’ll complete piece by piece.

I think it’s time for some small wins. Little utilities, fun projects—stuff that doesn’t require the weight of an unfinished language.

I might start cataloging those ideas here, or on bluesky, not sure yet.

Call me out of touch, but seeing this load on my GitHub homepage made my skin crawl.

#gh #github #copilot

The purpose of humanity isn't to work more, it's to work less and have more leisure. This is what sets us apart. We must develop, build, and automate away all the mindless monotony of the day so that we can choose to happily work on the hard problems of life.