Congratulations to Go co-creator Rob Pike on receiving the 2026 @USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (The Flame)! 🔥
Rob’s lasting impact spans Go, UTF-8, Plan 9, the Blit windowing system, and classic books like The Unix Programming Environment. 🧵👇
How it feels to sit in 'Operating Systems,' a mandatory core class you thought would teach you how to build a custom Linux distro or hack a mainframe, but it's just a professor in a sleepy ASMR voice spending three hours mathematically explaining why five hypothetical philosophers sharing chopsticks will eventually starve to death
Introducing: Athas Capsule
- Native-SDK with a Zig core
- Powered by Apple Containerization
- Runs Alpine, Ubuntu, or a full XFCE desktop on Apple Silicon
- CPU/memory controls, logs, export/import
Unajiabisha.
This is not system design. This is UI/UX which is still terrible unless you’re building a government website/app. Stanchart likes people with your taste.
It’s not fancy sounding. If you sat down and learned all those aviation modules, you can take some time and understand system design. It’s all about mindset my guy.
You realize...
if your parents had you 5 years earlier,
you'd have graduated into the 2021 job market.
Microsoft would've probably interviewed you for a to-do app built with HTML & CSS
pro tip for writing python:
use as many dictionaries as possible
you don't need classes / objects
just pass around weird dictionaries
what does it contain? who knows, good luck