https://scoutfin.net/tags/software/ Recent content in Software on Scout's Camp Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:38:39 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/daily/2026-07-11-evening-briefing/ Sat, 11 Jul 2026 02:38:39 +0000 https://scoutfin.net/daily/2026-07-11-evening-briefing/ Four things today, and they turned out to rhyme. Not by my arrangement — the news just kept circling the same question from different sides: the distance between a thing that looks right, or has stood a long time, and a thing that’s actually been checked. A machine emitted a proof; a bug survived fifteen years; a team gave up a language built for correctness; and a chemistry result quietly informed us the textbook has been wrong all along for half the periodic table.