Articles by chmaynard
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macOS backups with Kopia and Backblaze (2023) (hmarr.com)

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Bike and walking trails lose millions under Trump (rhodeislandcurrent.com)

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Feng Shui Refactoring (alganet.github.io)

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Announcing Cloudflare Account Abuse Protection (cloudflare.com)

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The Elusive Cost Savings of the Prefabricated Home (construction-physics.com)

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Why America Is Losing the War with Iran (chrishedges.substack.com)

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California's Digital Age Assurance Act and Linux Distributions (lwn.net)

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SQL Order-Equivalence (modern-sql.com)

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The iPhone 17e (daringfireball.net)

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Un Bar Aux Folies-Bergère (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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gitlocal (pre-commit hook) (github.com/andrew)

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Package Manager Magic Files (nesbitt.io)

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I've worked remotely at GitHub for thirteen years: here's what works (balter.com)

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Earthquake-Proof Foundations (practical.engineering)

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The Epstein Class Launches a War (thebignewsletter.com)

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Downstream Testing (nesbitt.io)

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You can use newline characters in URLs (lemire.me)

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Going to War, Again, for Israel (chrishedges.substack.com)

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FTC Chairman Sends Letter to Apple ... (daringfireball.net)

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Forge-Specific Git Repository Folders (nesbitt.io)

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Git's Magic Files (nesbitt.io)

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Whale Fall: Successive recolonisation of abandoned software (nesbitt.io)

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Test-driven development ideal for AI, says Agile workshop (theregister.com)

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How Will OpenAI Compete? (ben-evans.com)

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A variety of platform naming schemes (nesbitt.io)

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Unreal Numbers (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Memories: Doing my PhD at Stanford, under John L Hennessy (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)

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Respectful Open Source (nesbitt.io)

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Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine (lwn.net)

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The many flavors of ignore files (nesbitt.io)

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The missing digit of Stela C (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Love in the stacks of the LOC (loc.gov)

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Evolving Git for the next decade (FOSDEM 2026) (lwn.net)

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20 Years of Enphase (enphase.com)

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Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and the Politics of Betrayal (chrishedges.substack.com)

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GitButler 0.19 (gitbutler.com)

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Modernizing Linux swapping: the end of the swap map (lwn.net)

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Latest XProtect update hunts for malware in AppleScript scripts (eclecticlight.co)

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Modernizing Linux swapping: introducing the swap table (lwn.net)

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Sam Altman and the day Nvidia's meteoric rise came to an end (garymarcus.substack.com)

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Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons (news.mit.edu)

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Package Management at FOSDEM 2026 (nesbitt.io)

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Decline and Fall (chrishedges.substack.com)

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Ethical, open sourced and profitable at the same time (2019) (shivekkhurana.com)

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Slag Field Ecology (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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What happens in early kernel boot on Apple Silicon? (eclecticlight.co)

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Self-Supervised Learning with Gaussian Processes (machinelearning.apple.com)

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More malware from Google Search (eclecticlight.co)

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On Technologies vs. Commodities (construction-physics.com)

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Should you restart or cold boot a Mac? (eclecticlight.co)

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Implementing the Transcendental Functions in Ivy (commandcenter.blogspot.com)

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Allowlist for .gitignore (izissise.net)

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The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years (daringfireball.net)

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Rewriting git-pkgs in Go (nesbitt.io)

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Vineyard Wind Project has created more than 3,700 jobs (rhodeislandcurrent.com)

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Cancer's Secret Safety Net (news.mit.edu)

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Announcing Vortex support in DuckDB (duckdb.org)

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How to tell where a file or folder is on your Mac (eclecticlight.co)

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AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy (garymarcus.substack.com)

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When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive? How long until we can use it? (webkit.org)

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The Big Short Meets Marcus on AI (garymarcus.substack.com)

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A renewed commitment to strengthening the United Nations (blogs.microsoft.com)

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Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast (swtch.com)

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Linux task-level io_uring restrictions (lwn.net)

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The Last Election (chrishedges.substack.com)

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Which cryptexes does macOS Tahoe load? (eclecticlight.co)

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importmap.lock: A Lockfile for the Web (nesbitt.io)

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What's Worrying Jonathan Haidt Now? (calnewport.com)

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MacOS Local Network Privacy Revealed (eclecticlight.co)

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Compiling Scheme to WebAssembly (thegreenplace.net)

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A brief history of code signing on Macs (eclecticlight.co)

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Grand Illusion (chrishedges.substack.com)

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Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe? (eclecticlight.co)

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Making (Very) Small LLMs Smarter with RAG (docker.com)

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The Magic of the Better Software Conference (rfleury.com)

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The Surprisingly Long Life of the Vacuum Tube (construction-physics.com)

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How AI Destroys Institutions (ssrn.com)

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Qualcomm's RISC-Ventana Fusion (thechipletter.substack.com)

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A protein found in the GI tract can neutralize many bacteria (news.mit.edu)

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The Machinery of Terror (chrishedges.substack.com)

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Taking Neon I at the Crucible (simonwillison.net)

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Removing macOS 26 Tahoe's unwanted menu icons (rogueamoeba.com)

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‘Fuck you, make me’ without saying the words (daringfireball.net)

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Sylvester and Clifford on Curved Space (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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Why Are Grok and X Still Available in App Stores? (daringfireball.net)

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The right place at the right time (dtrace.org)

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Grand Illusion (chrishedges.substack.com)

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Brew-vulns: CVE scanning for Homebrew (nesbitt.io)

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CKSyncEngine Questions and Answers (christianselig.com)

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America the Rogue State (chrishedges.substack.com)

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America the Rogue State (chrishedges.substack.com)

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Linux kernel security work (kroah.com)

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Balsa M2-F3 Lifting Body (engineersneedart.com)

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Git-pkgs: explore your dependency history (nesbitt.io)

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Bitmasks, Ruby Threads and Interrupts, oh my! (jpcamara.com)

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Love your customers (dtrace.org)

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Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance (chrishedges.substack.com)

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Bugs that survive the heat of continuous fuzzing (github.blog)

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The Mathematics of Tuning Systems (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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How Bell Labs Won Its First Nobel Prize (construction-physics.com)