Articles by todsacerdoti
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Daniel's first 20k curl commits (haxx.se)

2

Air traffic control: the IBM 9020 (computer.rip)

3

VaultGemma: A Differentially Private LLM (arxiv.org)

2

More HTTP/3 focus, one back end less (haxx.se)

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If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it? (tldraw.dev)

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How Many Pixels Do You Need? (rldane.space)

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Rust's Culture of Semantic Precision (alilleybrinker.com)

1

The Malloc Maleficarum (2005) (seclists.org)

1

L for the Price of One: On the Benefits of Using more than t+1 Parties in Thres [pdf] (iacr.org)

4

My new minimal static site generator (maurycyz.com)

2

Pushing the smallest possible change to production (ankursethi.com)

1

Kip: A programming language based on grammatical cases of Turkish (github.com/joom)

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GitHub Copilot now supports OpenCode (github.blog)

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Myths we tell ourselves about software engineering (medium.com/feenk)

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I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool (evanhahn.com)

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The YC AI Student Starter Pack (ycombinator.com)

2

Smalloc: A simple memory allocator (github.com/zooko)

3

Designated Initializers, the best feature of C++20 (mropert.github.io)

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6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available (letsencrypt.org)

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Read_once(), Write_once(), but Not for Rust (lwn.net)

2

The State of Rust Cryptography in 2026 (kerkour.com)

1

Experimental High Dynamic Range Video Playback on Windows in Firefox Nightly 148 (mozillagfx.wordpress.com)

1

Ergonomic abstractions for numerical computing: My story so far (ocramz.github.io)

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Patching the Wii News Channel to serve local news (2025) (raulnegron.me)

1

Glasgow Interface Explorer Code of Conduct (glasgow-embedded.org)

1

Implementing Co, a Small Language with Coroutines #5: Adding Sleep (abhinavsarkar.net)

2

PostgreSQL in Gleam with pog, squirrel, and cigogne (nulltree.xyz)

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StackWarp Vulnerability (stackwarpattack.com)

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System Design (2006) (acm.org)

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Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them (hongminhee.org)

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Cryptography 30 years apart: Ascon on an HP-16C (dram.page)

3

Integration tests are best tests (jayconrod.com)

1

Quint Visualizer: a GraphViz-like visualizer for Quint traces (noghartt.dev)

1

Profile a Parser Implementation in Rust (wybxc.cc)

1

Depth-First Unary Degree Sequence (bruceediger.com)

1

How to parametrize exception testing in PyTest? (borutzki.github.io)

1

TWC Security Party – Group education event for tech workers to improve their PR (zoom.us)

3

New Social Web Working Group at W3C (socialwebfoundation.org)

6

Forgejo v14.0 Is Available (forgejo.org)

3

Unix v4 Source Code Commentary (github.com/unix-v4-commentary)

1

People who built Wikipedia, technically (2021) (wikipedia.org)

1

Codeless Code – Fables and Koans for the Software Engineer (thecodelesscode.com)

1

Rickroll in Rustc (github.com/rust-lang)

3

Writing Anteforth, a Forth-Like in Spark (pyjarrett.github.io)

2

SelfCI – a minimalistic local-first Unix-philosophy-abiding CI (radicle.xyz)

3

Chat is the least interesting interface to LLMs (haskellforall.com)

2

Permission to Begin Learning (ficd.sh)

2

My Opinion on Spelling Run Time vs. Run-Time vs. Runtime (bobrubbens.nl)

104

Servo 2025 Stats (igalia.com)

4

eBPF.party (ebpf.party)

206

The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists (lewiscampbell.tech)

2

The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar (opensourcesecurity.io)

3

I made a TypeScript to native code compiler via CLR and NativeAOT (github.com/tsoniclang)

1

Rethinking Geolocation on the Internet (internetsociety.org)

2

Volumetric Cloud Rendering – Jack Tollenaar (jacktollenaar.top)

1

Hybrid quota-linear rate limiter (dotat.at)

5

State of DataHaskell Q1 2026 (datahaskell.org)

1

Detecting MIME Types in Go (rnemeth90.github.io)

1

Text-Based Web Browsers (cssence.com)

2

The rise (and future fall) of Discord (slugcat.systems)

2

How to Make a Damn Website (lmnt.me)

1

We rolled our own documentation site (tangled.org)

1

Examining Iran's Internet Status Amid Escalating Protests (filter.watch)

1

One Thousand Words (drewmayo.com)

3

Three Inverse Laws of Robotics (susam.net)

2

The great calculator debate: Educators disagree over their place in the classro (csmonitor.com)

1

Patela v2: From Certificates to Hardware (osservatorionessuno.org)

1

Rethinking Helix (boserup.eu)

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Tuning Random Generators: Property-Based Testing as Probabilistic Programming [pdf] (ucla.edu)

1

Turntiles, an NYT style word game I made for my parents (github.com/wheybags)

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When msvc:musttail attribute silently fails (abareplace.com)

6

WhatsApp Is Untrustable (toki.la)

1

Exponential growth continued – cargo-semver-checks 2025 Year in Review (predr.ag)

1

The Curious Case of Stack Pivot Detection (seclists.org)

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Google automatically emails 13 year olds to allow them to opt out of parental s (support.google.com)

1

We Default to Addition (ufried.com)

1

Airfrog: Tiny sub-$5 wireless co-processor for ARM MCUs [video] (youtube.com)

2

Implementing a Tiny CPU Rasterizer (lisyarus.github.io)

1

The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well (softwaremaxims.com)

2

Create a semi-working desktop only based on runtime Windows 3.10 shipped with W (tech.lgbt)

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Don't fall into the anti-AI hype (antirez.com)

1

How Safe Is the Rust Ecosystem? A Deep Dive into Crates.io (mr-leshiy-blog.web.app)

1

Whenwords: A relative time formatting library, with no code (github.com/dbreunig)

3

Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead (karl-voit.at)

3

80% of Rye in 20% of the Time [1/3] (ryelang.org)

1

Best Practices for Reducing Dependabot Noise (nesbitt.io)

3

V16 beacon full uplink conversation (destevez.net)

5

Pulling a New Proof from Knuth's Fixed-Point Printer (swtch.com)

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LLMs have burned Billions but couldn't build another Tailwind (omarabid.com)

2

Continuous Snapshotting Filesystem (nilfs.sourceforge.io)

1

I Use Jujutsu (abhinavsarkar.net)

5

Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023) (popovicu.com)

1

Hongdown: An opinionated Markdown formatter in Rust (github.com/dahlia)

1

Gleam's Design and Compiler (youtube.com)

2

Phosh 2025 in Retrospect (phosh.mobi)

4

Prompting 101: Show, don't tell (haskellforall.com)

1

An Adequate Left-Associated Binary Numeral System in the Lambda-Calculus (brics.dk)

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How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster (iscinumpy.dev)

2

Answer Set Programming (2019) [pdf] (utexas.edu)