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OpenAI employees… are you okay?

https://drewdevault.com/2025/11/08/2025-11-08-OpenAI-employees-are-you-okay.html

Published: November 8, 2025 00:00

You might have seen an article making the rounds this week, about a young man who ended his life after ChatGPT encouraged him to do so. The chat logs are really upsetting. Someone two degrees removed from me took their life a few weeks ago. A close friend…

What's up with FUTO?

https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html

Published: October 22, 2025 00:00

Some time ago, I noticed some new organization called FUTO popping up here and there. I’m always interested in seeing new organizations that fund open source popping up, and seeing as they claim several notable projects on their roster, I explored their…

Cloudflare bankrolls fascists

https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html

Published: September 24, 2025 00:00

US politics has been pretty fascist lately. The state is filling up concentration camps, engaging in mass state violence against people on the basis of racialized traits, deporting them to random countries without any respect for habeas corpus, exerting…

A better future for JavaScript that won't happen

https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/17/2025-09-17-An-impossible-future-for-JS.html

Published: September 17, 2025 00:00

In the wake of the largest supply-chain attack in history, the JavaScript community could have a moment of reckoning and decide: never again. As the panic and shame subsides, after compromised developers finish re-provisioning their workstations and…

Embedding Wren in Hare

https://drewdevault.com/2025/08/20/2025-08-20-Hare-and-Wren.html

Published: August 20, 2025 00:00

I’ve been on the lookout for a scripting language which can be neatly embedded into Hare programs. Perhaps the obvious candidate is Lua – but I’m not particularly enthusiastic about it. When I was evaluating the landscape of tools which are “like Lua, but…

What's new with Himitsu 0.9?

https://drewdevault.com/2025/08/08/2025-08-08-Whats-new-with-himitsu.html

Published: August 8, 2025 00:00

Last week, Armin and I worked together on the latest release of Himitsu, a “secret storage manager” for Linux. I haven’t blogged about Himitsu since I announced it three years ago, and I thought it would be nice to give you a closer look at the latest…

Just speak the truth

https://drewdevault.com/2025/06/30/Speak-the-truth.html

Published: June 30, 2025 00:00

Today, we’re looking at two case studies in how to respond when reactionaries appear in your free software community. Exhibit A It is a technical decision. The technical reason is that the security team does not have the bandwidth to provide lifecycle…

Unionize or die

https://drewdevault.com/2025/06/09/2025-06-09-Unionize-or-die.html

Published: June 9, 2025 00:00

Tech workers have long resisted the suggestion that we should be organized into unions. The topic is consistently met with a cold reception by tech workers when it is raised, and no big tech labor is meaningful organized. This is a fatal mistake – and I…

The British Airways position on various border disputes

https://drewdevault.com/2025/05/05/2025-05-05-BA-on-border-disputes.html

Published: May 5, 2025 00:00

My spouse and I are on vacation in Japan, spending half our time seeing the sights and the other half working remotely and enjoying the experience of living in a different place for a while. To get here, we flew on British Airways from London to Tokyo, and…

Resistance from the tech sector

https://drewdevault.com/2025/04/20/2025-04-20-Tech-sector-restistance.html

Published: April 20, 2025 00:00

As of late, most of us have been reading the news with a sense of anxious trepidation. At least, those of us who read from a position of relative comfort and privilege. Many more read the news with fear. Some of us are already no longer in a position to…