Articles by adunk
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Screenshots of Old Desktop OSes (typewritten.org)

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How Fast Does Claude, Acting as a User Space IP Stack, Respond to Pings? (dunkels.com)

4

Vibe Maintainer (steve-yegge.medium.com)

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Web Server on a Nintendo Wii (sjmulder.nl)

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Joining a Company the Founder Still Runs (fullhoffman.com)

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Measuring Strategic Work (fullhoffman.com)

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Speed vs. stability: the divide between product and engineering (sofiakodar.github.io)

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How AI Is Changing Programming Language Usage (acm.org)

2

A Simple Technique for Overlapping IRQ Handlers (trident64.github.io)

2

Email Is Crazy (samkhawase.com)

2

Can We Vibe Code a Smart Home Device with Matter? (dunkels.com)

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Anonymous IRQ Handlers (trident64.github.io)

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Hermes.md in Git commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing (github.com/anthropics)

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Claude Code Tips I Wish I'd Had from Day One (marmelab.com)

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Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020) (fabiensanglard.net)

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Soul Player C64 – A real transformer running on a 1 MHz Commodore 64 (github.com/gizmo64k)

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C64GFX – Commodore 64 Pixel Art Gallery (c64gfx.com)

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MOS tech 6502 8-bit microprocessor in pure SQL powered by Postgres (github.com/lasect)

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Sum Ergo Demonstro (linusakesson.net)

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Writeup: Byte Intro Rainbow Surf, first place at Revision 2026 – 256B Compo (reddit.com)

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PlayStation 3 emulator makes Cell CPU 'breakthrough' that improves performance (tomshardware.com)

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Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen (benhoyt.com)

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A Look at Some Retro Desktop Graphical User Interfaces (goto10retro.com)

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Faster 6502-on-6502 virtualization for a C64/Apple II Apple-1 emulator (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

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Run Claude Code with Local AI (github.com/nicedreamzapp)

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Model Collapse Is Happening, We Just Pretend It Isn't (acm.org)

1

The 53-Year Evolution of AI Agents: A Comprehensive Reading List (fullhoffman.com)

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A Year of Multi-Model Assisted Development (fullhoffman.com)

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Whose Problem Are We Solving? A Question That Cuts Through the Fog (dunkels.com)

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The hobby that AI is ruining for its fans (vox.com)

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Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough Is Wrong (2008) (scottaaronson.blog)

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Sometimes Your Device Is Alive but Is Dead (dunkels.com)

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5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 (arstechnica.com)

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The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed) (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color (otterstack.com)

2

Particle is being acquired by Digi to power the next 40 years of IoT innovation (particle.io)

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Game and Watch Emulator for the Commodore 64 (github.com/sabbi)

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The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience (acm.org)

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Fixing the C64 Bubble Bobble Continue Bug (geon.github.io)

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Fitting It All in Your Head – Systems Approach (systemsapproach.org)

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Stress-Testing 100 Bluetooth Beacons (So the Team Can Sleep Well at Night) (dunkels.com)

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Pushing the Boundaries of C64 Graphics with Nuflix (cobbpg.github.io)

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Bringing BASIC back: Microsoft's 6502 BASIC is now Open Source (microsoft.com)

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The Hubble BLE Finding Network (hubble.com)

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Llama2.c64: a port of llama2.c to the Commodore C64 (github.com/ytmytm)

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Kaleidoscopico (A Demo for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2) [video] (youtube.com)

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Signal Carnival (quiss.org)

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Lisp Programs Don't Have Parentheses (funcall.blogspot.com)

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France sets fusion energy milestone by maintaining a plasma reaction for 1,337 s (theiet.org)

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Begrudgingly Choosing CBOR over MessagePack (taylor.town)

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AI chatbots unable to accurately summarise news, BBC finds (bbc.com)

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Paper retracted after author told journal study was 'not performed' (retractionwatch.com)

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Spurious Scholar – Because if p < 0.05, why not publish? (tylervigen.com)

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Software Bugs Led to 'One of the Greatest Miscarriages of Justice' (acm.org)

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What Color is Your Function? (2015) (stuffwithstuff.com)

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Spurious Correlations (tylervigen.com)

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A Personal, Portable Laugh Track (dunkels.com)

1

Why Do We Still Have Semaphore Signals? [video] (youtube.com)

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Storage Costs Are Plummeting (lemire.me)

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A Whimsical Odyssey Through the Maze of Scholarly Reviews (acm.org)

2

Doom Clone in Pure CSS (codepen.io)

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Competition: Build sound and graphics in less than 161x225 microns of 130nm ASIC (tinytapeout.com)

2

How to Use Git diff with an sqlite3 Database (dunkels.com)

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SaaS Starter Kit – Reactjs and NextJS SaaS Boilerplate (saasstarterkit.com)

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A Simple Way to Pitch Ideas (dunkels.com)

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How much memory does a call to 'malloc' allocate? (lemire.me)

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Doom Scroll – Front End Conf 2024 Demo (codepen.io)

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Why Unix's lseek() has that name instead of seek() (utoronto.ca)

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Comparing 6502 Multiply Routines (github.com/tobylobster)

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Chipsynth C64 is an emulation of the SID so good, it can replace hardware (cdm.link)

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PiccoloBASIC – A Basic Interpreter for the Raspberry Pi Pico Board (cnx-software.com)

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Citogenesis in science and the importance of real problems (lemire.me)

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Let's recreate the sound of the 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System on a C64 (linusakesson.net)

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BRR Lines – A new line drawing method for the cycle savvy (quiss.org)

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Fuel emergencies – how much fuel do aircraft carry? (flightradar24.com)

2

Use ChatGPT to Pitch Almost Any Idea (dunkels.com)

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Procosoco: A Simple Way to Pitch Almost Any Idea (dunkels.com)

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19 random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings (lemire.me)

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Where is the original “Overview of SHARD” paper? (shkspr.mobi)

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Multicolor Ghostbyte Shine-Through: How to Make an Unexpanded C64 Border Scroll (github.com/trident64)

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That paper with the ‘T’ error bars was just retracted (retractionwatch.com)

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The sentinel toothpaste: a useful programming technique for everyday life (dunkels.com)

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A2osX/A2osX: Multi Tasking OS for Apple IIe //C IIgs (github.com/a2osx)

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Vulnerable SDK components lead to supply chain risks in IoT and OT environments (microsoft.com)

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The sentinel toothpaste: a useful programming technique for everyday life (dunkels.com)

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Study: AirPods Pro are this close to being full-fledged hearing aids (arstechnica.com)

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How to Write a Lisp Interpreter in JavaScript

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C64 Theremin

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Observations of the Lindy Effect