Blog System/5
Julio MerinoA newsletter on operating systems, build systems, programming languages, software engineering, and my own software projects. Specifics include FreeBSD, Linux, Rust, Bazel and EndBASIC.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 55 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 2 months ago |
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I think AI is pushing me toward the AGPL
It has been two months since I’ve been using AI coding agents “for real”. In my previous article, I reflected on my experiment to vibe-code a full Emacs module from scratch. In there, I intentionally left one important question unanswered:...
Reflections on vibecoding ticket.el
It has now been a month since I started playing with Claude Code “for real” and by now I’ve mostly switched to Codex CLI: it is much snappier—who would imagine that a “Rewrite in Rust” would make things tangibly faster—and the answers feel...
Grumpy Julio plays with CLI coding agents
It’s no secret that I’ve been grumpy about the new AI-based coding trend. I’ve been grumpy about the “push from above to use AI or else”. I’ve been grumpy about the eye-rolling hype I see on LinkedIn. I’ve been grumpy about being on the rec...
ssh-agent broken in tmux? I've got you!
A little over two years ago, I wrote an article titled SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right. In it, I described how SSH agent forwarding works—a feature that lets a remote machine use the credentials stored in your local ssh-agent insta...
From Azure Functions to FreeBSD
On Thanksgiving morning, I woke up to one of my web services being unavailable. All HTTP requests failed with a “503 Service unavailable” error. I logged into the console, saw a simplistic “Runtime version: Error” message, and was not able...
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