Graham Lee, D.Phil

Using WebObjects at web-scale with kubernetes and Firebase: my journey to use modern cloud-based deployment and integration with the "heritage" #webobjects web app framework, via #gnustep #gnustepweb and GDL2. https://www.sicpers.info/2026/07/using-webobjects-at-web-scale-with-kubernetes-and-firebase/

@mntmn RISC-V chips have less NDA but lots of NAND

@nicklockwood every claim made about AI—that it's reducing employment, that it's making code worse, that it's increasing energy or water consumption—is backed by a trend that began before AI was productised. Unless Eliza is to blame for all of this, of course.

@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social @joe@f.duriansoftware.com hey siri, tell application Finder to open the first file of the first window end tell

@cwebber@social.coop I was in that talk! I’m very excited for BLUE. I use some software that has an autoconf build system that I’m struggling to get playing nicely in guix (GNUstep, FWIW) and I’m excited for boiling the ocean and getting a blueprint up for it.

@mattb@hachyderm.io have not been yet, jealous!

@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk yes very much, hope you did too!

@CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk aaaah we were right next to you! (Mabel Gubbins)

@alicemcalicepants that’s good news! If all your colleagues have interesting updates at the same time then something is very wrong with your employer.

@RandySimons@mastodon.social @jani@floss.social there’s Apertus, unless we think the Swiss government might dry up?

@jani@floss.social there was a lost decade of basic r&d due to the mobile duopoly unchallenged by regulation, and the inability for the incumbents to repatriate revenue held in overseas holding companies. The second constraint disappeared in 2017, and here we are.

@jani@floss.social how many hardware refresh cycles before you can run a small but capable coding model—say, qwen3 coder next—locally on modest hardware? We’re in the same position today that Xerox Alto was with GUIs circa 1978, but with broader and more diverse access to the future than 50 employees in one office.

@griotspeak I am surprised Ayn Rand didn’t launch that particular ship.