Articles by birdculture
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Fearless_SIMD v0.7: 64-bit integers, improved generics, SSE2, and upcoming v1.0 (linebender.org)

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ActivityPub Won by Being Boring (o.ee)

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Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign (thunderbird.net)

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SlopScan: Displays a "slop score" when viewing public Git repositories (addons.mozilla.org)

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Kernel Context Switch Costs and Spin Locks in Perf Profile: A Practical Study (medium.com/dichenldc)

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The Art of Chip-8 (beyondloom.com)

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Coding Magic the Gathering in C# – Part One – Why Build a Card Game in WinForms (youtube.com)

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GitHub Stacks in Jujutsu (norbauer.com)

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2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up (jkm.dev)

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My Anti AI Computer (punkx.org)

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Let's not call it "tech debt," it's just "mess" (simplermachines.com)

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Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer? (brandur.org)

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EuroZig (eurozig.eu)

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A Preview of Roc 0.1.0 by Richard Feldman (youtube.com)

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Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird (sebsite.pw)

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Gnome Shell Design Dreams (gnome.org)

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My Homelab Got Hacked – A Postmortem (phunky.cafe)

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Analyzing My Lobsters Submissions (abhinavsarkar.net)

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Researcher Launches 'CPU Deoptimization' Project to Identify Slowest x86 (tomshardware.com)

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Reviewing Code Is a Skill (typesanitizer.com)

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The Dangers of Postgres Subtransactions (planetscale.com)

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Dark mode toggles: two states are enough (verou.me)

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We're not done with point clouds (claytonwramsey.com)

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Five Programming Books That Changed How I Think (adamtornhill.substack.com)

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Odd Comments and Doings in Unix (9p.io)

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Easy Sandboxing on Linux with Bubblewrap (bxt.rs)

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Nixpkgs-multiverse: every version that ever existed (fzakaria.com)

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Tracking down a Zsh history data loss bug (stapelberg.ch)

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A pure CSS implementation of some sunlight streaming in through the window (github.com/jackyzha0)

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Beyond Senior – Creating Hope (baweaver.com)

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Rails Is Done (dohmen.io)

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Port the Enlightenment desktop environment to NetBSD (netbsd.org)

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3G at Last (nickvsnetworking.com)

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IRC technology news from the first half of 2026 (ilmarilauhakangas.fi)

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Multistack Concatenative Programming Languages (sheeeeeeeep.art)

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Using Program Images as Flight Recorders over Logs (yogthos.net)

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A quick look at zero-knowledge proofs (bernsteinbear.com)

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Systemd Dynamic Users (2020) (ethulhu.co.uk)

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Some ways to navigate through 'Git blame' over time in GNU Emacs (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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JDK 28 EA Build 10 Now Available with JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) (java.net)

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Some software talks I like (char.lt)

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I got a 1998 CD-ROM world atlas running on Windows 11 (trevmex.com)

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I'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic Park (taylor.town)

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Am I the problem? Interviewing another team to find out (macchaffee.com)

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A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy (refp.se)

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Soppo – Go, with the features it's missing (soppolang.dev)

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A Vision for Cargo (epage.github.io)

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Jujutsu 0.44.0 (github.com/jj-vcs)

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I wonder if you could make a useful DOS executable with just emoji (oldbytes.space)

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The following is a valid DOS COM executable (oldbytes.space)

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Setup a simple web server with bozohttpd on NetBSD (httpd.rocks)

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Offensive Internet Posture (bruceediger.com)

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The LuaJIT NYI That Silently Poisoned an Unrelated Hot Loop (streamhpc.com)

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Designing a Query System (bal-e.org)

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Nix Overrides That Expire Themselves (jezenthomas.com)

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Linux Processes: Threads and Concurrency (iximiuz.com)

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The Nix sandbox is a hidden input (fzakaria.com)

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Anti-Fascist PieFed Features (piefed.social)

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Irken: A tiny hackable full-featured IRC client (codeberg.org/dlowe)

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Liquid Glass Effect for GNU/Emacs (github.com/larrasket)

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Zanzlanz released a game that has no assets (youtube.com)

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I'm (mostly) picking models on speed now, not intelligence (martinalderson.com)

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The Lua community needs to learn to move on (hisham.hm)

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NPM's keyv package got compromised having 127M weekly downloads (safedep.io)

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JSON Is Lying to You (gaborkoos.com)

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The Future of Gnome Boxes (gnome.org)

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The Invariant Is Hiding (yusufaytas.com)

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The State of Chez Scheme in Debian (weinholt.se)

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Epipe on write might mean you're doing it wrong (rachelbythebay.com)

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Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025) (xvw.lol)

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9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released (9front.org)

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Faster floating point math with Rust's new API (pythonspeed.com)

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Accepting a Messy Git History (tuxen.de)

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Understanding Raft Leader Election by building from scratch (sushantdhiman.dev)

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NIST Develops New Standards to Safeguard Computers Against Quantum Threats (nist.gov)

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An old-new take on argument parsing in Rust (jmmv.dev)

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Guix shell now inside Emacs (codeberg.page)

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The Wheels We Keep Reinventing (blainsmith.com)

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Go 1.27 Interactive Tour (victoriametrics.com)

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The Bedrock of Software Design (draftist.io)

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Stripe Just Wants a Number (exe.dev)

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How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2026 (nnethercote.github.io)

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Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python (quansight.org)

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Private Data in ATProto: Permissioned Data Proposal (github.com/bluesky-social)

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Full flattening of nested data parallelism (futhark-lang.org)

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The Paradox of Fancy Tooling (fagnerbrack.com)

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Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs (lwn.net)

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What Every Programmer Should Know About Twists of Elliptic Curves (leetarxiv.substack.com)

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GNU Hyperbole Implicit Buttons: Build Your Hyperverse (chiply.dev)

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Deskhop: Fast Desktop Switching Device (github.com/hrvach)

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Setting timers in simple games (feat. the frame rule) (lynn.github.io)

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When I failed the Microsoft interview (ochagavia.nl)

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Manganin: Tools Matter (manganin.dev)

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Why Rocq is better than Lean for program verification (korkutblech.com)

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Basebrowserproject (mastodon.social)

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I Designed a Custom PCB to Avoid Pressing a Button Three Times (tymscar.com)

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Develop Cross-Platform CLI and GUI Tools with Tcl/Tk (cgicoffee.com)

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Framework 13 Pro review: better battery, worse price (arstechnica.com)

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Parallel JSON parsing on the GPU with compute shaders (github.com/friendlymatthew)

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Advantages and disadvantages of Windows NT 3.1 (dfarq.homeip.net)