It's clear that AI assisted coding is dividing developers (welcome to the culture wars!). I've seen a few blog posts now that talk about how some people just "love the craft", "delight in making something just right, like knitting", etc, as opposed to people who just "want to make it work". As if that explains the divide.

How about this, some people resent the notion of being a babysitter to a stochastic token machine, hastening their own cognitive decline. Some people resent paying rent to a handful of US companies, all coming directly out of the TESCREAL human extinction cult, to be able to write software. Some people resent the "worse is better" steady decline of software quality over the past two decades, now supercharged. Some people resent that the hegemonic computing ecosystem is entirely shaped by the logic of venture capital. Some people hate that the digital commons is walled off and sold back to us. Oh and I guess some people also don't like the thought of making coding several orders of magnitude more energy intensive during a climate emergency.

But sure, no, it's really because we mourn the loss of our hobby.

Every word of this

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

Who knows how to secure open source better than the maintainers themselves? 🛡️

In Session 3 of the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund, 67 more projects improved their defenses.

From securing the AI stack to strengthening the global supply chain, find out how these maintainers are making security improvements that benefit the entire ecosystem. 👇
https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/securing-the-ai-software-supply-chain-security-results-across-67-open-source-projects/

We know what a Friday needs to get good and I'm happy I can deliver it: a new graph.

#if density in curl source code over time. Fascinatingly static through the years counted per 1000 lines of code.