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Brian Swetland

@swetland@chaos.social
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Writes the codes. Recovering OS Engineer (BeOS, HiptopOS, Android, LK, Fuchsia). Embedded systems hacker. Hobbyist Digital Designer. Player of video games. Etc.

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location:
Palo Alto, CA

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Brian Swetland
@swetland@chaos.social

Writes the codes. Recovering OS Engineer (BeOS, HiptopOS, Android, LK, Fuchsia). Embedded systems hacker. Hobbyist Digital Designer. Player of video games. Etc.

chaos.social
Brian Swetland
Brian Swetland
@swetland@chaos.social

Writes the codes. Recovering OS Engineer (BeOS, HiptopOS, Android, LK, Fuchsia). Embedded systems hacker. Hobbyist Digital Designer. Player of video games. Etc.

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@swetland@chaos.social · Mar 07, 2026

A reminder that you can still just sit down and write software. Or stand up and write software if you prefer.

The key point is that *you* can *write software* and you don't have to let other software write software for you.

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Brian Swetland
@swetland@chaos.social

Writes the codes. Recovering OS Engineer (BeOS, HiptopOS, Android, LK, Fuchsia). Embedded systems hacker. Hobbyist Digital Designer. Player of video games. Etc.

chaos.social
Brian Swetland
Brian Swetland
@swetland@chaos.social

Writes the codes. Recovering OS Engineer (BeOS, HiptopOS, Android, LK, Fuchsia). Embedded systems hacker. Hobbyist Digital Designer. Player of video games. Etc.

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@swetland@chaos.social · Nov 17, 2025
I am probably old fashioned, but running into an open source commandline tool written in C that "requires" meson and ninja to build, in order to accomplish the equivalent of... $ gcc -o tool main.c -lone -ltwo ...seems like maybe just a bit of overkill to me. (In case anyone was curious, I did not end up installing ninja and meson in order to build this tool.) #OldManYellingAtCloud
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