- Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?
If this gets anywhere near courts (and if it doesn't, I'm sure something very like it will in due course), it's going to have fascinating implications for software development and licensing.
Tag: software
Bookmarks for July 18, 2025
- Making Software
Someone out there is writing a comprehensive quide to making software, stating from first principles. At present, there's only one chapter available, on how displays work (because almost all software invovles something being displayed to someone at some point, and without them, there'd be no software). If the rest of the book is up to this standard, it'll be amazing.
- Information is Beautiful
These are great. There are several in here I believed, and I'm probably going to start adding oil to pasta water again, if it really does stop it boiling over. And I'm going to stop worrying that I'm not drinknig enough water.
Bookmarks for April 15, 2025
- Raycast
I may be late to the party, but this looks like something useful to streamline jobs I do a dozen times a day.
Bookmarks for April 11, 2025
- Bookmarks
Amusingly recursive: if this works, the first bookmark in my new bookmark manager will be itself. I finally got my linkdump posts working again by building an entire application to grab them Pinboard and post them to wordpress. There's something wrong with me.