New blog article: Open source renaissance, in response to James Ross’s Open Source as We Know It Is Dead.

Non-fiction

• Alex Kladov showcases fuzz testing with Rust in Finding Bugs.
• Iris Meredith argues that There's little that's "inevitable" about AI.
• Nolan Lawson asks Why don’t more developers “use the platform”? That is, why do developers reinvent the wheel so often when their existing technology stack already has the feature they need? And how is this likely to change with the use of LLMs?
• George Hotz criticises Lobbying and Carette Antonin follows up with Lobbying is corruption.
• John Murray explains how to run Nix on the Steam Frame VR headset.
• Kelly Cordes’s The Fun Scale: Understanding Types of "Fun" is essential reading. Type 4 Fun follows up with another type.

Fiction

Both of these are part of a series, and should be read as such.

• Dennis E. Taylor’s All These Worlds, narrated by Ray Porter.
• Scott Alexander’s The Foothills Of Bay Area House Party.