Articles by tosh
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Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is becoming faster (wikipedia.org)

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A solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline (2021) [pdf] (computingwithinlimits.org)

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Genera (wikipedia.org)

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Self-Hosting (wikipedia.org)

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StrongForth (stephan-becher.de)

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Applejak: Interpreter for a subset of K programming language for Super CHIP-8 (internet-janitor.itch.io)

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The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015 [pdf] (tinlizzie.org)

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Inferno (wikipedia.org)

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zclaw: 888 KB Assistant on ESP32 (zclaw.dev)

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Permacomputing 101 [video] (youtube.com)

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Cooperative Multitasking (wikipedia.org)

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Reliable UIs Even with Language Models (cased.com)

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zclaw: personal AI assistant in under 888 KB, running on an ESP32 (github.com/tnm)

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The Law of Leaky Abstractions (2002) (joelonsoftware.com)

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claude --worktree (twitter.com/bcherny)

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colorForth Editor and Assembler (2013) [video] (youtube.com)

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Thoughts about Pi (colorforth.github.io)

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The Beautiful Simplicity of ColorForth (2013) (archive.org)

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Michael Abrash's Zen of Assembly Language (1990) (github.com/jagregory)

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Five Memorable Books About Programming (dadgum.com)

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The Most Important Decisions Are Non-Technical (dadgum.com)

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Pico-ML: A toy programming language which is a subset of OCaml (github.com/quramy)

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Information Processing Language (wikipedia.org)

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Yamaha DX7 reverse-engineering, part III: Inside the log-sine ROM (2021) (righto.com)

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romforth: Ultra Portable, Small, Baremetal Forth for Various Processors (github.com/romforth)

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Stack Computers (1989) (cmu.edu)

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Language Choice (cmu.edu)

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Where Lisp Fails: At Turning People into Fungible Cogs (2009) (loper-os.org)

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Software Collaboration in the AI Age (spiess.dev)

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A History of Erlang (2007) [pdf] (lfe.io)

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ggml.ai joins Hugging Face (twitter.com/ggerganov)

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What Every C Programmer Should Know About Undefined Behavior (2011) (llvm.org)

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Slurm: A Highly Scalable Workload Manager (github.com/schedmd)

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Prompt Caching 201 (developers.openai.com)

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Lessons from Building Claude Code: Prompt Caching Is Everything (twitter.com/trq212)

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The unauthorized tool call problem (answer.ai)

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Highly Bespoke Software (twitter.com/karpathy)

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Tool Shaped Objects (x.com)

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zeptocom.js (github.com/tabemann)

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AI Adoption at Sentry (twitter.com/jshchnz)

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Chris Lattner on Claude C Compiler (twitter.com/clattner_llvm)

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QFN (wikipedia.org)

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The Coding Agent Is Dead (ampcode.com)

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Agentic Engineering in Practice (mgratzer.com)

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Esperanto (wikipedia.org)

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Jupyter Kernel for Mojo (github.com/answerdotai)

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Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025 (youtube.com)

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Futhark (futhark-lang.org)

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Eurisko (wikipedia.org)

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R3forth: A concatenative language derived from ColorForth (github.com/phreda4)

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AI coding assistance is not giving me identity fracture (twitter.com/esrtweet)

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OKAD (Oh CAD) (2000) (ultratechnology.com)

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Lakital vs. Uxntal (wastingmoves.com)

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New version of DOOM on SNES with the help of RP2350 (raspberrypi.com)

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Making of RP2040 Doom (kilograham.github.io)

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Waveshare RP2350-Plus (waveshare.com)

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SO(2)-Networks as Neural Oscillators (2003) [pdf] (neurorobotik.de)

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Terminals should generate the 256-color palette (gist.github.com)

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Historically first (0.01) release of Linux kernel (1991) (github.com/zavg)

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John Carmack on GPU Scheduling (twitter.com/id_aa_carmack)

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M5Card Forth (github.com/ryu10)

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Grok 4.20 Beta (grok.com)

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The Best Programming Language for the End of the World (archive.org)

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Shifting structures in a software world dominated by AI (twitter.com/thom_wolf)

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Permacomputing (xxiivv.com)

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Declarative, Inquisitive, then Imperative (2017) [pdf] (forth.org)

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SwiftForth IDE for Windows, Linux, macOS (forth.com)

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UK banks plan Visa and Mastercard alternative amid Trump fears (theguardian.com)

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Prototyping UIs has always been a good fit for vibe coding (twitter.com/geoffreylitt)

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Clerk (clerk.vision)

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Programming a 144-computer chip to minimize power (2013) [video] (youtube.com)

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Plan 9 Desktop Guide (pspodcasting.net)

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devlog (xxiivv.com)

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Retrocomputing (2020) (information-superhighway.net)

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A 3-Instruction Forth for Embedded Systems Work (1991) (wisc.edu)

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Mistral Vibe (mistral.ai)

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iOS 27 'Rave' Update to Clean Up Code, Could Boost Battery Life (macrumors.com)

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Stages of Denial (nsl.com)

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Blinkenlights (justine.lol)

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Stop Writing Dead Programs (Strange Loop 2022) (jackrusher.com)

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Canon Cat (wikipedia.org)

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What Is a Jupiter Ace? (jupiter-ace.co.uk)

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planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary (github.com/nineties)

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The seven programming ur-languages (madhadron.com)

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Qwen3.5 (github.com/qwenlm)

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Software as Wiki, Mutable Software (exe.dev)

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Forth is just fast Lisp (2017) (reddit.com)

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Picol: A Tcl interpreter in 500 lines of code (github.com/antirez)

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uxn2 (sr.ht)

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Kimi Claw (twitter.com/kimi_moonshot)

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NasmJF Forth (ratfactor.com)

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Why no one should use the AT&T syntax (archive.org)

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higher order functions in Forth (gist.github.com)

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A Conversation with Manfred von Thun (2003) (nsl.com)

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dc (wikipedia.org)

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Inner-Platform Effect (wikipedia.org)

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Data Is Code (2020) (information-superhighway.net)

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Dusk OS is simple (sr.ht)

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uf (gitlab.com/b2495)

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Reversed engineered game Starflight (1986) (github.com/s-macke)