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Dec 31, 2020 at 06:53

Reflections on the Rust design process:

AiC: Adventures in consensus · baby steps

Dec 4, 2022 at 18:41

Reflections on the challenges and relevance of Gnu Autotools after the first release in eight years:

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats facing the GNU Autotools | Owl’s Portfolio

Jan 14, 2022 at 06:45

Finding meaning in open source projects, the principle of charity, and avoiding a mindset of scarcity. Really great reflections on the motivations of open sourcing Rails. https://world.hey.com/dhh/i-won-t-let-you-pay-me-for-my-open-source-d7cf4568

Oct 15, 2020 at 07:40

Reflections on two years of writing Rust:

Rust after the honeymoon | The Observation Deck

Two years ago, I had a blog entry describing falling in love with Rust. Of course, a relationship with a technology is like any other relationship: as novelty and infatuation wears off, it can get on a longer term (and often more realistic and subdued) footing – or it can begin to fray. So well one might ask: how is Rust after the honeymoon? By way of answering that, I should note that about a year ago (and a year into my relationship with Rust) we started Oxide. On the one hand, the name was no accident – we saw Rust playing a large role in our future. But on the other, we hadn’t yet started to build in earnest, so it was really more pointed question than assertion: where might Rust fit in a stack that stretches from the bowels of firmware through a hypervisor and control plane and into the lofty heights of REST APIs?