A developer known as dec05eba has released Phoenix, a new X server written from scratch in Zig. Not a fork of X.Org—a complete rewrite. The project appeared on Phoronix on December 25, 2025, generating 123 comments. The project README lays out both the goals and the explicit non-goals, which makes Phoenix’s intentions clear. What Phoenix …
Month: December 2025
The Five Stages of Debugging Someone Else’s Code
Every developer has been there. You open a file you didn’t write, scroll through it, and feel something shift inside you. It’s not quite grief, but it follows the same trajectory. Here’s the journey we all take when debugging code written by someone else—or by past versions of ourselves. Stage 1: Denial You stare at …
lazydocker: The Docker Terminal UI You Didn’t Know You Needed
If you work with Docker, you’ve typed docker ps more times than you can count. Then docker logs. Then docker logs -f. Then you forget which container you need, so docker ps again. Maybe docker stats to check resources. And when things go sideways, a frantic scroll through documentation to remember the exact incantation for …