Articles by zdw
9

Why Intelligence Is a Terrible Proxy for Wisdom (joanwestenberg.com)

3

Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan? (arstechnica.com)

1

Is the Internet Hijacking Our Ambition? (calnewport.com)

3

Fixing retail with land value capture (worksinprogress.co)

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I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor (msn.com)

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How Over-Engineering Became the New Technical Debt in Distributed Systems (acm.org)

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Welcome to Town Al-Gasr (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

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git-pkgs: A Git subcommand that indexes dependency changes into a database (git-pkgs.dev)

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Package Management Is a Wicked Problem (nesbitt.io)

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Toilet Maker Toto's Shares Get Unlikely Boost from AI Rush (yahoo.com)

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The 2026 Linux Summer Games [video] (youtube.com)

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Autodesk burns the village to feed AI and the Cloud – cuts 7% of workforce (adafruit.com)

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How a band of engineers anticipated the cloud and remade the internet (princeton.edu)

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Why there's no European Google? And why it is a good thing (ploum.net)

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A Protocol for Package Management (nesbitt.io)

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Humanizer: A Claude Code skill that removes signs of AI-generated writing (github.com/blader)

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Why Intel stopped making motherboards (homeip.net)

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Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga (github.com/ef1500)

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Migrating 13,000 Comments from Drupal to Hugo (jeffgeerling.com)

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Agentic AI and the Mythical Agent-Month (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

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Google temporarily disabled YouTube's advanced captions without warning (arstechnica.com)

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Text Is King (experimental-history.com)

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Internet Archive's Storage (dshr.org)

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The Empathy of Instructions (seths.blog)

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Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something? AI gears up to sell ads (theconversation.com)

2

Controlling the Wizzard (leadedsolder.com)

2

What to do about students using ChatGPT to do their homework? (computationalcomplexity.org)

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AI is a horse (2024) (kconner.com)

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Frankenwine: Multiple Personas in a Wine Process (nullprogram.com)

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Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots (ploum.net)

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An introduction to XET, Hugging Face's storage system (00f.net)

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Workspaces and Monorepos in Package Managers (nesbitt.io)

1

The Discourse Is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack (joanwestenberg.com)

1

The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking (fs.blog)

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Quantum Computing for Lawyers (bfswa.substack.com)

2

Repairing Monitor Cataracts on a Burroughs B21 / Convergent AWS Computer CRT [video] (youtube.com)

2

Forecats – Weather forecast display with cats and Nano Banana (secondthoughts.my)

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From Garroting Panic to Instagram: The Victorian Claw Glove (adafruit.com)

3

A new way to call C from Java: how fast is it? (lemire.me)

1

How Etsy Uses LLMs to Improve Search Relevance (etsy.com)

4

Building a Quake PC (fabiensanglard.net)

12

Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid (joanwestenberg.com)

3

When programs assume the system will never change, episode 4: Stealing strings (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

1

How to Debug Your Life (joanwestenberg.com)

12

Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity (klarasystems.com)

1

My Gripes with Prolog (buttondown.com/hillelwayne)

3

How stagnant is CPU technology? (lemire.me)

10

HTTP RateLimit Headers (dotat.at)

4

Radicle 1.6.0 – Amaryllis (radicle.xyz)

1

Artificial StupidIntelligence and Airport Sinks (deobald.ca)

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Junior Developers in the Age of AI (thoughtfuleng.substack.com)

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Wine 11.0 (winehq.org)

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Stop Picking Sides: Manage the Tension Between Adaptation and Optimization (martinfowler.com)

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macOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view (lapcatsoftware.com)

21

PawSense: Catproof Your Computer (bitboost.com)

3

Reject the Religion of Efficiency (digitalliturgies.net)

2

Letting Claude Play Text Adventures (borretti.me)

8

Reducing Dependabot Noise (nesbitt.io)

1

LLVM: The Bad Parts (npopov.com)

4

Universe Time Machine Using AI God and the Universe Internet (patents.google.com)

14

I Built a 1 Petabyte Server from Scratch [video] (youtube.com)

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Where's the $100k iPhone? (boydkane.com)

1

The Stick in the Stream (randsinrepose.com)

1

The Ubiquity Tradeoff (acm.org)

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How Markdown took over the world (anildash.com)

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Palo Alto Crosswalk Signals Had Default Passwords (padailypost.com)

2

The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us from Shame at the Gas Station (wsj.com)

3

A Major Mail Provider Demonstrates They Likely Do Not Understand Mail at All (bsdly.blogspot.com)

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The C-word: What security people don't get about compliance (bfswa.substack.com)

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Vanilla: Software clone of the Wii U gamepad (github.com/vanilla-wiiu)

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Why the Renovate project uses GitHub Discussions as our triage process (jvt.me)

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Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP (soatok.blog)

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Markdown Fixup: An Opinionated Markdown Linter (brettterpstra.com)

2

About Bootstrapping, and why it's important (notgull.net)

2

Marcus Weighs in (Mostly) for LeCun (garymarcus.substack.com)

14

Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios (kikkia.dev)

8

macOS 26.2 update enables 160MHz channels on 5GHz Wi-Fi networks (cultofmac.com)

13

How to Be Less Awkward (experimental-history.com)

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Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025? (calnewport.com)

2

AI and Research Papers (computationalcomplexity.org)

7

The eight ways that all the elements in the Universe are made (2021) (bigthink.com)

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How will the miracle happen today? (kk.org)

2

Katsuhiro Otomo's Animation Work for Canon's T70 35mm Camera: Japanese Futurism (shellzine.net)

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Speed Test between Windows XP vs. Vista vs. 7 vs. 8.1 vs. 10 vs. 11 [video] (youtube.com)

4

Boredom Is Good, Actually (aartaka.me)

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Nadella: Looking Ahead to 2026 (snscratchpad.com)

3

The Agentic Self: Parallels Between AI and Self-Improvement (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

6

GE Refrigerator with a built-in barcode scanner for grocery lists (geappliances.com)

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How dependabot works (nesbitt.io)

1

Residues: Time, Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture [video] (youtube.com)

1

Technology Is Culture (lemire.me)

1

52 Things I Learned in 2025 (probablyinteresting.substack.com)

2

My ideal Linux source package format (at the moment) (utcc.utoronto.ca)

1

Taking photos of PCBs and electronics [video] (youtube.com)

3

How to translate a ROM: The mysteries of the game cartridge [video] (youtube.com)

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Sabotaging Bitcoin (dshr.org)

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Using lava lamps to break RSA (tedunangst.com)

2

Rx Inspector – Look Up Where Your Generic Prescription Drugs Were Made (propublica.org)

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Beating myself at chess (schemescape.com)

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How to draw your own mouse cursor theme (blinry.org)