Articles by signa11
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Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt (github.com/rwc9u)

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Initweave – build your Emacs init.el (initweave.com)

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Linux, Finally for Everyone (yololinux.com)

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C Preprocessor tricks, tips, and idioms (github.com/pfultz2)

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BPF Comes to Io_uring at Last (lwn.net)

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Ipxlat: a stateless IPv4/IPv6 translation device (kernel.org)

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A Verilog to Factorio Compiler and Simulator (Working RISC-V CPU) (github.com/ben-j-c)

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Native Instant Space Switching on macOS (arhan.sh)

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Who is that actor on the screen? Emacs/LLM/Fun Redux (ingebrigtsen.no)

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Freestyle Linked Lists Tricks (nullprogram.com)

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Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles (chipsandcheese.com)

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Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) (dadgum.com)

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A sufficiently detailed spec is code (haskellforall.com)

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Memory Allocation Strategies (gingerbill.org)

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Making Emacs output true 24-bit color in the terminal: a two-line terminfo fix (reddit.com)

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Before AI's Kepler Moment – Are LLMs the Epicycles of Intelligence? (ashvardanian.com)

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Microslop (s-config.com)

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An ode to bzip (purplesyringa.moe)

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Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible (neowin.net)

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Darn Grid Shader (Yet). For as long as I've been writing (bgolus.medium.com)

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Acme: The Un-Terminal (danielmoch.com)

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The exploitation paradox in open source (lwn.net)

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Magit and Majutsu: discoverable version-control (lwn.net)

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Parametricity, or Comptime Is Bonkers (noelwelsh.com)

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Prefix sums at gigabytes per second with ARM NEON (lemire.me)

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Text formats are everywhere. Why? (lemire.me)

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Managers have no human rights (2024) (yosefk.com)

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Fast-Servers: An Interesting Pattern? (sdf1.org)

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How to downgrade from macOS 26 Tahoe on a new Mac (arstechnica.com)

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Model Collapse Ends AI Hype (youtube.com)

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AccECN: More accurate congestion notification for TCP (lwn.net)

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The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (Rags) (406.fail)

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OpenAI calls in the consultants for its enterprise push (techcrunch.com)

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The Rise and Fall of Scala: A Love Letter to the Language That Broke My Heart (medium.com/naveensky)

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Linus Torvalds and friends: how Linux evolved from solo act (theregister.com)

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A Deep Dive into ClassLoader Contention in Java (medium.com/nik6)

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Plasma 6.6 Released (kde.org)

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The Comprehensive List of X Window Managers for Unix (gilesorr.com)

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Meihem in Ce Klasrum (1946) (ecphorizer.com)

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Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things (tonsky.me)

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Rendering the Visible Spectrum (brandonli.net)

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How to Vulkan in 2026 (howtovulkan.com)

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Cisco's Jeetu Patel: Why AI Fluency Will Soon Be Non-Optional (forbes.com/sites/rodgerdeanduncan)

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Programming Aphorisms (matklad.github.io)

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Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow (subf.dev)

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Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow (subf.dev)

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Tenstorrent Cuts 20 Cores from Already-Shipping "Blackhole" P150 Cards (techpowerup.com)

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A few CPU hardware bugs (taricorp.net)

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Wirth's Revenge (jmoiron.net)

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A Simple fwd_diff<T> for Forward-Mode AD in C++ (solidean.com)

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The Dumbest Performance Fix Ever (computergoblin.com)

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Trust in Ranking (marginalia.nu)

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Profiling in production with function call traces (yosefk.com)

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Can AI companies become profitable? (epoch.ai)

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For the Love of Troff [pdf] (schemamania.org)

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The state of Linux music players in 2026 (crescentro.se)

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Zerobrew: A drop-in, 5-20x faster, experimental Homebrew alternative (github.com/lucasgelfond)

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Modern C++ Use in Chromium (googlesource.com)

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Dcli: Declarative Package Management for Arch Linux (Inspired by NixOS) (gitlab.com/theblackdon)

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Asciinema: Making Movies at the Command-Line (lwn.net)

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Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk with systemd initrd on Arch (jyn.dev)

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I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds (atempleton.bearblog.dev)

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Some C habits I employ for the modern day (unix.dog)

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Some C habits I employ for the modern day (unix.dog)

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Predictions for the New Year (lwn.net)

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Cursor CEO Built a Browser Using AI, but Does It Work? (finalroundai.com)

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eBPF Party: Interactive eBPF Playground (ebpf.party)

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In Memory of Frank Gehry (systemsapproach.org)

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A tiny LM that does inference at compile time (github.com/erodola)

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C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories (0xghost.dev)

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Google Is Adding an 'AI Inbox' to Gmail That Summarizes Emails (wired.com)

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Episode 29 of the Dirk and Linus show (lwn.net)

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Treating UI Regions as Independent Actors Makes Terminal State Manageable (rodriguez.today)

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Linus T: "The AI Slop Issue Is *Not* Going to Be Solved with Documentation" (phoronix.com)

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The Slow Way Is the Fast Way (mark-samples.com)

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Relax for the Same Result (sive.rs)

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PMU Counters on Apple Silicon (bugsiki.dev)

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Modern C++ Programming Course (github.com/federico-busato)

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Freestyle Linked Lists Tricks (nullprogram.com)

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I automatically generated minutes for five years of IETF meetings (educatedguesswork.org)

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Was it a billion dollar mistake? (gingerbill.org)

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Formal methods only solve half my problems (brooker.co.za)

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A Solid Load of Bull (loup-vaillant.fr)

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You Can't Trust Your Eyes to Tell You What's Real Anymore, Says Instagram Head (theverge.com)

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Clinic-in-the-Loop: Eroom's Law (asimov.press)

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Goodbye Sass (redblobgames.com)

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How Email Works: Behind the Screen (sushantdhiman.substack.com)

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Asus ROG Laptops Are Broken by Design: A Forensic Deep Dive (drive.google.com)

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Goodbye SASS (redblobgames.com)

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A Tour of Common Concurrent Hash Table Designs (bluuewhale.github.io)

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Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers are enough? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

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Concurrent Hash Table Designs (bluuewhale.github.io)

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Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI (imgur.com)

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How Email Works (sushantdhiman.substack.com)

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Going boldly into the COSMIC desktop environment (lwn.net)

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A Curl 2025 Review (haxx.se)

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(My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming) (matthewbrunelle.com)

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Schrödinger's test: The /dev/mem case (elisa.tech)

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Tieredsort: Header only, blazing fast (3-4x) C++17 sorting for numeric types (github.com/cranot)

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Rex: Safe Rust Kernel Extensions for the Linux Kernel, in Place of eBPF (phoronix.com)