Articles by peter_d_sherman
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FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language (github.com/kekcleader)

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The Agora Companies – Finding Success at the Edges of the Bell Curve (theagora.com)

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History of WYSIWYG editors and CMS: a timeline (2022) (tiny.cloud)

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Open System Firmware: Experiences deploying LinuxBoot, coreboot at Google (2021) [video] (youtube.com)

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What Happens to a Balloon That Keeps Rising into the Upper Atmosphere? (aviation.stackexchange.com)

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KaOS Takes Final Init Step Away from System with Dinit RC ISO (linuxiac.com)

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A Short Story About SQL's Biggest Rival (QUEL) (2020) (holistics.io)

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Reversible Computing (wikipedia.org)

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List of Quantum Logic Gates (wikipedia.org)

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ik_llama.cpp – llama.cpp fork with better CPU performance (github.com/ikawrakow)

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Pluto – An x86 (Ring 0, Protected Mode) kernel written in Zig (github.com/zystemos)

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Asterinas – Forge the Future of Rust OSes (asterinas.github.io)

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RSQL – High-Performance, Open Source PostgreSQL Client (Tauri v2, React, Rust) (github.com/rust-dd)

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HeidiSQL – Lightweight MariaDB, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite Manager (github.com/heidisql)

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Midday – Open Source Invoicing, Time Tracking, File Reconciliation, Storage, etc (github.com/midday-ai)

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Machine Code For Beginners (1983) [for the Z80/6502] (drive.google.com)

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AMD Crafts Custom EPYC CPU with 128GB HBM3 (EPYC 9V64H) (2024) (tomshardware.com)

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Abbey Library of Saint Gall (wikipedia.org)

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Blaise – A modern self-hosting zero-legacy Object Pascal compiler targeting QBE (github.com/graemeg)

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uget – stupid get-file-over-HTTP program/function (github.com/troglobit)

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Whohas – Command-line utility for cross-distro, cross-repository package search (github.com/whohas)

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Making The Smallest Possible Linux Distro (x64) (2025) [video] (youtube.com)

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Building a tiny Linux from scratch (2025) (blinry.org)

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Understanding the FFT Algorithm (2013) (jakevdp.github.io)

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Gauss' Secret Way to Calculate π Faster [video] (youtube.com)

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100x Defect Tolerance: How Cerebras Solved the Yield Problem (2025) (cerebras.ai)

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Businesses you can start and run from a phone? (reddit.com)

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Abstract Semantic Graph (wikipedia.org)

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Tachyum Open Sources 281GB/S TDIMM for the Future of AI and Computing (2025) (tachyum.com)

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The Pope Bot – OpenClaw Alternative (github.com/stephengpope)

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AI-Free-Forever – 1000 free AI tools with no signup, no login (aifreeforever.com)

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LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio" (chainlift.io)

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Golden Ratio using an equilateral triangle inscribed in a circle (geometrycode.com)

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The Angry Path to Zen: AMD Zen Microcode Tools and Insights [video] (ccc.de)

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Corundum – open-source FPGA-based NIC and platform for in-network compute (github.com/corundum)

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D7VK – Vulkan Direct3D 7 translation layer – Run old games on Linux in Wine (github.com/wintersnowfall)

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OpenVINO – open-source toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inference (github.com/openvinotoolkit)

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The LPU (Language Processing Unit) (groq.com)

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A Guide to Magnetizing N48 Magnets in Ansys Maxwell (ozeninc.com)

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SPhotonix – 360TB into 5-inch glass disc with femtosecond laser (tomshardware.com)

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KiTTY Terminal Graphics Protocol (kovidgoyal.net)

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Microservices (wikipedia.org)

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Free-for-dev – A curated list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS that have free tiers (github.com/ripienaar)

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Awesome-distributed-ML – A curated list for distributed [faster] LLM training (github.com/shenggan)

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Virtual ARchaeological Computer EMulator – cycle exact old x86 PC emulator (github.com/varcem)

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Compact (8KB) embedded x86 BIOS for FPGA/emulators/386EX (github.com/b-dmitry1)

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Negative Differential Conductance in triangular molecular assemblies (arxiv.org)

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Grammars Written for Antlr v4 (github.com/antlr)

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Growing Cosine Unit (GCU): A Novel Oscillatory Activation Function (2023) (arxiv.org)

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Brian Kernighan – Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981) (virginia.edu)

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Maverick-2 Technology Launch (CPU, GPU,? Is this the next hardware evolution?) [video] (youtube.com)

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Jacqueline – A minimal i386 kernel written in Pascal (2019) (github.com/danirod)

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AI's Circular Economy [video] (youtube.com)

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Torsion Field (Pseudoscience) (wikipedia.org)

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Pyscripter – Open-source Python IDE written in Delphi (github.com/pyscripter)

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ao486 port for MiSTer (486SX FPGA core in Verilog) (github.com/mister-devel)

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EasyOS – An experimental Linux distribution (2025) (easyos.org)

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Don't sell shovels, sell treasure maps (platforms.substack.com)

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OpenSERDES – Open Hardware Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) in Verilog (2020) (github.com/sparclab)

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Awesome-Foundation-Models – A curated list of foundation models (github.com/uncbiag)

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No instruction set computing (wikipedia.org)

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BREAD: BIOS Reverse Engineering and Advanced Debugger (github.com/theldus)

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TinyALSA – Tiny library to interface with ALSA in the Linux kernel (github.com/tinyalsa)

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TinyWM – The tiniest (X11) window manager (github.com/mackstann)

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Barrelfish OS Architecture Overview (2013) [pdf] (barrelfish.org)

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BuildPad – A platform that helps founders go from idea to successful product (buildpad.io)

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Hacksaw: Hardware-Centric Kernel Debloating (2023) [pdf] (microsoft.com)

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Minimum x86-64 Machine Code (in Hex) for SmithForth core (2022) (dacvs.neocities.org)

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Nix Package Manager Install on Alpine Linux (gist.github.com)

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Quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM) for Dummies (2023) (arxiv.org)

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OpenPOWER Foundation – Open-Source / Open Hardware PowerPC CPU ISA (openpowerfoundation.org)

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NixNG – A lightweight "minimal by default" Linux distribution based on NixOS (github.com/nix-community)

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awesome-gpgpu – A curated list of GPGPU (CUDA/OpenCL/Vulkan) resources (github.com/jslee02)

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ESP – Open-source SoC platform (columbia.edu)

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HSS-8324 PXI Express High Speed Optical FPGA Board (conduant.com)

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DIY Open Source Single Photon Generator and Detector (gaudi.ch)

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Laser optical pickup unit (OPU) hacking (2020) (hackteria.org)

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Resonant Inductive Coupling (wikipedia.org)

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i3 Window Manager explainer videos and screenshots (i3wm.org)

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The Electret (2023) (circuitcellar.com)

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What is data oriented design? (2023) (stackoverflow.com)

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Bolt.new – Prompt, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps online

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Jonesforth – A sometimes minimal FORTH compiler and tutorial for Linux / i386 (github.com/nornagon)

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Delivering 15TB of 4K video with Cloudflare R2 for $2.18 (screencasting.com)

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Intuitive vs. Intentional productivity – the foundations of the new Spark (2022) (sparkmailapp.com)

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MdBook – a command line tool to create books with Markdown (rust-lang.github.io)

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DirectStorage Overview (2023) (microsoft.com)

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Angular Resolution (wikipedia.org)

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Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR? (onallbands.com)

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Task Vectors [in Vision and Language Models (VLM's)] Are Cross-Modal (task-vectors-are-cross-modal.github.io)

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About Those Gaussian Envelopes (2014) (marty-green.blogspot.com)

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The Shape That Could Replace Space-Time –- Maybe [Amplituhedron] [video] (youtube.com)

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Release Schedule for NixOS 24.11 (github.com/nixos)

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The Usenet Oracle (wikipedia.org)

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LibNSFB – Framebuffer (bitmap on screen) abstraction library, written in C (netsurf-browser.org)

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Automata_theory.svg (wikimedia.org)

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Polynomial Activation Functions (2020) (openreview.net)