Comments on: "Software culture wars" are a joke

By: The bubble « The Tar Pit

The bubble « The Tar Pit — Sun, 18 May 2025 08:43:11 +0000

[...] Having said this, let's proceed to the subject: in short, the bubble is a metaphor for any social construct that comes about into existence via the usual process of osmosis. [...]

By: How to run DOS games from GOG.com, a practical guide for noobs « The Tar Pit

Sun, 29 Dec 2024 18:33:41 +0000

[...] the sake of brevity, this list of "other operating systems" shall be reduced to Linux distributions and MacOS. Sure, you can in principle use the methods here [...]

By: The Matrix « The Tar Pit

The Matrix « The Tar Pit — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:07:48 +0000

[...] these days to write for "the people", where "the people" is some particular demographic coagulated through osmosis, and I mean that it's hard to do that without spouting the usual slogans; and they're trying and I [...]

By: The Reality Shitshow continues « The Tar Pit

The Reality Shitshow continues « The Tar Pit — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:26:00 +0000

[...] of how fucked up it may be. Still, Gheboasă is not a name right now, he's merely part of some genre or another, which makes him somewhat of an uncanny [...]

By: Hondol, and the various valleys, hills, gorges, waterfalls, riverbeds, caves and townlets of the Western Romanian Carpathians « The Tar Pit

Thu, 17 Aug 2023 17:12:01 +0000

[...] their time on things they don't even make the effort to understand for the same reason some people use Windows, i.e. because it's the fashionable thing to do and because posting photos on their Arsebook will [...]

By: The marks of decay « The Tar Pit

The marks of decay « The Tar Pit — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:27:46 +0000

[...] Well, enjoy whatever's on the menu! [...]

By: On open sores supply chainz « The Tar Pit

On open sores supply chainz « The Tar Pit — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:06:13 +0000

[...] for that matter, I could have used a less modern compiler such as TCC. Instead, I used whatever was fashionable and whatever recommendations I got from my WoT at the [...]

By: Notes on OpenBSD device drivers « The Tar Pit

Notes on OpenBSD device drivers « The Tar Pit — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:03:46 +0000

[...] using "ideological" pejoratively, for reasons mentioned in the previous article in this series, or elsewhere, or [...]

By: OpenBSD, or how I review software projects « The Tar Pit

OpenBSD, or how I review software projects « The Tar Pit — Sat, 29 Oct 2022 17:28:31 +0000

[...] time, it is up to each one to decide what constitutes "too much", either way "too much" is also a cost to be paid one way or [...]

By: The stuff they write on walls « The Tar Pit

The stuff they write on walls « The Tar Pit — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 10:04:35 +0000

[...] Further below: the greatest from the carpati... also, fashuns. [...]