Please welcome Daroc Alden

[Posted January 17, 2024 by corbet]

When, at the beginning of November, we posted an open position at LWN, we were only so hopeful; experience has shown that finding writers who are both capable of and interested in writing our sort of material is a challenging task. This time, though, hope was justified: we got a surprising number of applications from highly qualified applicants. The hardest part of the task has, instead, been narrowing down the choice to a hiring decision.

We are pleased to announce that Daroc Alden has just joined LWN's staff. Daroc is a programmer from New England, where they live with their spouse and their cat. They graduated with a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of New Hampshire. In their spare time, they enjoy fiction writing and musicals. They are especially interested in programming language theory and implementation.

Daroc will be taking on some of the load of keeping LWN interesting while helping us to expand our content mix in the areas that our readers are interested in. Please give them your support as they come up to speed within our operation. We are looking forward to having Daroc as part of a reinforced and more energetic LWN going forward.

Please welcome Daroc Alden

Posted Jan 17, 2024 20:23 UTC (Wed) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779) [Link]

Congratulations, and welcome! It is great that LWN is going well enough to take on additional help, and even better that you finally found someone. Looking forward to even more quality content :-)

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Posted Jan 17, 2024 20:26 UTC (Wed) by Vorpal (guest, #136011) [Link] (3 responses)

I look forward to seeing some increased variety in the content perhaps. The phrase "programming language theory and implementation" makes me hopeful as this interests me too, particularly for Rust but also other languages like Haskell, Erlang and C++.

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 11:30 UTC (Thu) by gasche (subscriber, #74946) [Link] (2 responses)

I'm a "programming languages" (PL) person myself, have contributed a LWN article once in the past ( https://lwn.net/Articles/684128/ ), and know people who might be interested in contributing as well. Can we discuss what sort of PL-related content people would like to see here, besides the uncommon but usual "new release of language X" format?

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 15:47 UTC (Thu) by auc (subscriber, #45914) [Link]

> what sort of PL-related content people would like to see here, besides the uncommon
> but usual "new release of language X" format?

LWN regularly gratifies us with deep discussions from within the Python community (most recently on the subject of typing).

Having a sense of how PL communities argue within themselves, what kind of direction and arguments they have, etc, would certainly be appreciated.

You wrote once on OCaml it appears, but now with OCaml having landed a post-GIL situation (with the 5.x series), it could be worthwhile to know what people are discussing (effects, etc.).

Etc...

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 15:49 UTC (Thu) by auc (subscriber, #45914) [Link]

Also I just saw you nick there.

Are you the same gasche as this one ? https://discuss.ocaml.org/u/gasche/summary

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Posted Jan 17, 2024 21:42 UTC (Wed) by sramkrishna (guest, #72628) [Link]

Welcome Daroc! Looking forward to seeing all the great things here.

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Posted Jan 17, 2024 21:54 UTC (Wed) by babywipes (subscriber, #104169) [Link]

Welcome! It's great to see that LWN got so many applications :)

This is my favorite news source on the web, so I'm glad to see new talent come in to keep it going.

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Posted Jan 17, 2024 22:17 UTC (Wed) by dvejmz (guest, #129844) [Link]

Welcome, Daroc! I'm happy to see LWN thriving.

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Posted Jan 17, 2024 22:29 UTC (Wed) by Amolith (subscriber, #137875) [Link]

Welcome and congratulations! :)

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 0:48 UTC (Thu) by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446) [Link]

Daroc, good luck with your new role. Journalism is tricky and everyone else knows best!

You do you and we'll try to keep up.

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 2:31 UTC (Thu) by aiethics.abhishek (guest, #164948) [Link]

Welcome Daroc - great to have you contributing to LWN! Would love to see the enhancements that you bring, perhaps some more content on OSS AI would make for an interesting addition. Thanks!

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 2:52 UTC (Thu) by csamuel (✭ supporter ✭, #2624) [Link]

Hey Daroc!

Welcome to LWN, looking forward to reading your articles!

All the best,
Chris

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 5:20 UTC (Thu) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

Welcome Daroc! I look forward to your articles and your insights.

Viva LWN!

Jesse Adelman
https://linkedin.com/in/boldandbusted

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 11:09 UTC (Thu) by adellam (subscriber, #42630) [Link]

Congratulations!

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 11:30 UTC (Thu) by rwky (subscriber, #119998) [Link]

Welcome! Looking forward to reading what you have to say!

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 11:49 UTC (Thu) by bluca (subscriber, #118303) [Link]

Welcome, looking forward to the new contributions!

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 14:02 UTC (Thu) by DouglasJM (subscriber, #6435) [Link]

Welcome Daroc! Looking forward to your contributions to LWN!

Please welcome Daroc Alden

Posted Jan 18, 2024 14:17 UTC (Thu) by mageta (subscriber, #89696) [Link]

Welcome Daroc! Looking forward to reading your articles.

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 15:54 UTC (Thu) by cavok (subscriber, #33216) [Link]

Welcome Daroc and congratulations!

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Posted Jan 18, 2024 17:19 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (guest, #33263) [Link]

Waiting to see the fiction writing from the cat.

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Posted Jan 20, 2024 4:10 UTC (Sat) by emilianork (subscriber, #139234) [Link]

Welcome Daroc. Looking forward to read your contributions to LWN.

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Posted Jan 20, 2024 22:36 UTC (Sat) by bgamari (subscriber, #102670) [Link]

Welcome Daroc! I'm looking forward to reading contributions from a familiar name.

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Posted Jan 23, 2024 15:24 UTC (Tue) by a9db0 (subscriber, #2181) [Link]

Welcome Daroc to the best Linux news source on the web! Look forward to your contributions here.

Congrats Jon, on finding someone who fit the bill.

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Posted Jan 25, 2024 22:12 UTC (Thu) by da4089 (subscriber, #1195) [Link]

Welcome Daroc! And congratulations to Jon and LWN on your ongoing success!