Developer Diary, Yom Kippur

Mini-Server, Part 33 Recipe Pesto DIY Incubator Entropy Arbitrage, the Posts Entropy Arbitrage, the Code Library Updates Next Today—from last night’s sunset to tonight’s—marks Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, centered on (to nobody’s surprise, given the term) atonement and repentance. These days, I always forget to check the holidays on Lunar calendars1, so I want to cycle more in, and what better an example than probably the most important? And with that, on to the week’s projects. Mini-Server, Part 33 The Pinebook has gone back into limbo for the moment, to my annoyance, because I have run out of viable options for a fresh operating system. As I mentioned recently, when you rule out operating systems that have a policy allowing LLM-generated “contributions”—a time-bomb that’ll either put Software Freedom at risk for everyone using the system or turn it into an unmaintainable mess—that doesn’t leave me2 with many options. GNU Guix with the Hurd kernel Haiku Inferno NetBSD…