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Devon Maloney

@plailect.bsky.social

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Security Engineering and Architecture at Apple. Vulnerability research. Embedded systems in Swift. Alumnus RPISEC. 🏳️‍🌈

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Joachim ✊️ UVW-CWA @jdespland.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We don't live in slop world because of AI, we live in slop world because the purpose of everything is to generate a return on investment for capital. We evaluate everything along metrics designed to serve that purpose over any other. AI is just the best way we found of optimizing for these metrics.

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Devon Maloney @plailect.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

> "For the 27 releases, we've started writing parts of the core operating system kernel in Swift." Swift for the Kernel was an awesome project to work on this year! I'm very happy to have been able to make these first steps towards a truly memory-safe kernel possible :)

A screenshot of an "OS and firmware" Swift stack with elements "Firmware", "Coprocessors", and "Drivers"

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Steven @stvn.sh · 21/04/2026

I wrote a love letter to Peter Welch's "Programming Sucks" essay, about the state of the tech industry in the age of AI. Hope you'll give it a read & tell me what you think: stvn.sh/writing/prog...

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Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this...

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Devon Maloney @plailect.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

So much this blog post. Also, go read Blindsight -- it's quite good.

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Devon Maloney @plailect.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Living abroad was an amazing experience, but now it's time for something more familiar. I've always loved New England, especially Boston!

A photo of the Boston skyline, as seen from Cambridge.

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