Beyond the politics lies the story of why American poultry needs such drastic chemical treatment – and of the horrendous conditions at the farms where they are bred and reared.

UPDATE: Someone thought it’d be funny to submit this to Hacker News. It looks like I made some ZFS fans pretty unhappy. I’ll address some of the retorts posted on HN that didn’t c…

Software rots. That is: Adapting mature software to new circumstances tends to take more time and effort than writing new software from scratch. Software people don't like to admit this, but open so…