Articles by chmaynard
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Advent of Swift (leahneukirchen.org)

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Wasteland Wrap-Up #55 (doomsdaymachines.net)

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TPU Mania (thechipletter.substack.com)

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Working at Cold War Los Alamos (doomsdaymachines.net)

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An open seat on the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board (lwn.net)

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Russian authorities have imposed restrictions on FaceTime (apnews.com)

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How to make a macOS screen saver (wadetregaskis.com)

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Gist of Go: Concurrency Internals (antonz.org)

35

Checked-size array parameters in C (lwn.net)

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Just: A Command Runner (lwn.net)

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Git Rev News Edition 129 (November 30th, 2025) (git.github.io)

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How Home Assistant became the most important project in your house (github.blog)

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Why Replicate is joining Cloudflare (cloudflare.com)

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Has the bailout of generative AI begun? (garymarcus.substack.com)

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A Government Think Tank Trained the First Generation of US Software Developers (construction-physics.com)

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Migrating from Legacy Networking to systemd-networkd on Ubuntu 24.04 (endpointdev.com)

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Intel is listening, don't waste your shot (brendangregg.com)

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It's hard to build an oscillator (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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We Need a Purpose-Driven Agent-Based Developer Management Platform (adrianco.medium.com)

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Trump accuses 6 Democratic lawmakers of seditious behavior, punishable by death (rhodeislandcurrent.com)

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RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern (wpri.com)

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Data-at-Rest Encryption in DuckDB (duckdb.org)

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Desktop Abstraction and OS Design – Video Discussion with Sam Smith (rfleury.com)

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When You Give a Bully Your Lunch Money (daringfireball.net)

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The current state of Linux architecture support (lwn.net)

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Attach to Multiple Processes in macOS (indiestack.com)

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I took the "Crusty Interpreter" class! (decomposition.al)

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Highlights from Git 2.52 (github.blog)

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Wasteland Wrap-Up #51 (doomsdaymachines.net)

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America Is a Banana Republic (chrishedges.substack.com)

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What Is a Production Process? (construction-physics.com)

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[Longtime Mac user] Finally trying Linux (tclementdev.com)

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Protecting Privacy with Tails Linux (lwn.net)

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A security model for systemd (lwn.net)

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Embedding resources into executables built using GCC (kevinboone.me)

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Using classic physical phenomena to solve new problems (news.mit.edu)

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The Death House (chrishedges.substack.com)

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Los Angeles and the Endgame of the Growth Ponzi Scheme (clmarohn.substack.com)

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Fil-C: A memory-safe C implementation (lwn.net)

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How the UK Lost Its Shipbuilding Industry (construction-physics.com)

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How to Download All Videos from a YouTube Channel with yt-dlp (endpointdev.com)

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Connecticut needs to plan for its energy future (rhodeislandcurrent.com)

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Relational Charades: Turning Movies into Tables (duckdb.org)

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How indexes make your queries fast (wizardzines.com)

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Feed the bots (maurycyz.com)

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Trap Bots on Your Server (maurycyz.com)

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You already have a Git server (maurycyz.com)

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The Problem of Being Known (susanrigetti.com)

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Announcing PWV Fund I (preston-werner.com)

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First Freelance (el-yawd.github.io)

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Bitmasks, Threads, and Interrupts: Concurrent, Colorless Ruby (jpcamara.com)

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Git considers SHA-256, Rust, LLMs, and more (lwn.net)

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The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls (practical.engineering)

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The Rubygems.org takeover (lwn.net)

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Autogenerating og:images with Jekyll (pecar.me)

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Chen-Ning (Frank) Yang 1922-2025 (columbia.edu)

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Nexperia's Long History, Tangled Present, and Uncertain Future (thechipletter.substack.com)

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Solving the NYTimes Pips puzzle with a constraint solver (righto.com)

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"I have sought to slaughter as few civilians as possible." (doomsdaymachines.net)

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High-precision date/time in C (antonz.org)

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The Free Software Foundation considers large language models (lwn.net)

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GitHub Copilot and AI agents are saving legacy systems (github.blog)

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No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off (steveblank.com)

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The Grand AGI Delusion (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Notes on switching to Helix from Vim (jvns.ca)

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Notes from the Git Contributor's Summit, 2025 (lwn.net)

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Scientists Just Connected the Dots Between Viruses and Everything (fast.ai)

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The developer role is evolving. Here’s how to stay ahead. (github.blog)

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Prussian Blue (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Payload on Workers: a full-fledged CMS, running on Cloudflare's stack (cloudflare.com)

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Avalanche Studios: An Ambitious Company Ruined by Bad Development Practices (probablydance.com)

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Why today's humanoids won't learn dexterity (rodneybrooks.com)

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The phaseout of the mmap() file operation in Linux (lwn.net)

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Adding Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions (CHERI) to Linux (lwn.net)

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Apple launches new project to protect and restore a California redwood forest (apple.com)

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Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used (holdtherobot.com)

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Multiple Kernels on a Single System (lwn.net)

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Alan Turing on Embodied Intelligence (rodneybrooks.com)

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Connect and secure any private or public app by hostname, not IP (cloudflare.com)

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[flagged] Exploiting Male Rage (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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What's Happening to Wholesale Electricity Prices? (construction-physics.com)

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Death of the Holocaust Industry (chrishedges.substack.com)

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Fighting human trafficking with self-contained applications (lwn.net)

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First-class merges and cover letters (dotat.at)

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How Big Was IBM? (thechipletter.substack.com)

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Our House Divided (jaynordlinger.com)

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Git Back to the Future (2017) (philna.sh)

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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Mariam Abu Dagga (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Ford and the Birth of the Model T (construction-physics.com)

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Python: The Documentary [video] (youtube.com)

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In the Matter of Lisa Cook (paulkrugman.substack.com)

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Remembering the work of Kevin S. Braunsdorf and the pundits tool-chain (leahneukirchen.org)

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The 100th Anniversary of Critical Theory in Naples (yale.edu)

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Basic Feature Engineering with DuckDB (duckdb.org)

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Building blocks for idiomatic Go pipelines (antonz.org)

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EU's new AI code of practice could set regulatory standard for US companies (rhodeislandcurrent.com)

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AI: Great Expectations (rodneybrooks.com)

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Academic Dishonesty (2016) (brennan.io)

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The First Apple Watch? (rogueamoeba.com)