Hot take:

Discord is not a documentation platform. It is a chat platform. If your project requires connecting to a discord to obtain necessary information, then your project is undocumented.

Here's @davidallengreen thought experiment on the structure of the UK's prison system; a prison system that as he points out is really set up on, and works to a dysfunctional response to crime & criminals.

However, the view of punishment (rather than rehabilitation) that it encompasses has too many proponents for an alternative to establish itself as the political ground for reform.

#prisons #crime #politics

https://emptycity.substack.com/p/the-real-problem-which-blights-our

After *checks notes* 8 months, I finally got around to doing another Surfer release 🎉

The change log is long with lots of big and small changes, my favorites being the new wasm based translators, and improvements to the waveform control protocol.

I also took the opportunity to set up automatic builds of the VSCode extension from `main` so it will be in sync with the rest of our binaries :)

Full change log at https://gitlab.com/surfer-project/surfer/-/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md?ref_type=heads#040---2025-11-06

#fpga #asic #verilog #vhdl

There's an old Russian joke, a man walks by the newstand every day. He looks at the newspapers but never buys anything.
One day the owner of the stand asks him if he's looking for something in particular. He says an obituary. The news seller says: "Ah those are on the back"

"Not the one I'm looking for" the man replies

Gee, I wonder why billionaires want to control the encyclopedia.

(Kudos to the contributors of this very astute section of Zohran Mamdani's Wikipedia bio.)