Articles by zdw
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LLM-eliza – LLM plugin providing access to the ELIZA language model (codeberg.org/evanhahn)

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What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential? (nicole.express)

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Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc (youtube.com)

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Because Algospeak (tbray.org)

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Announcing New Working Groups (nesbitt.io)

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The Curse of the Everything Device (hackaday.com)

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TCXO Failure Analysis (serd.es)

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The Window Chrome of Our Discontent (pxlnv.com)

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OpenWrt 25.12 (openwrt.org)

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Some Words on WigglyPaint (beyondloom.com)

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Package managers need to cool down (nesbitt.io)

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Review: I Write Like (forkingmad.blog)

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How To Put 30 Languages Into 1.1MB – hypher, a fast hyphenation library for Rust (laurmaedje.github.io)

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A Rational Analysis of the Effects of Sycophantic AI (arxiv.org)

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Patterns for Reducing Friction in AI-Assisted Development (martinfowler.com)

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Package Management Is Naming All the Way Down (nesbitt.io)

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Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers (tokyodev.com)

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Daily Driving GrapheneOS (matthewbrunelle.com)

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Vendir: Declaratively vendor portions of Git repos, Docker images, helm charts (github.com/carvel-dev)

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The Secretive Company Filling Video Game Sites with Gambling and AI (aftermath.site)

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Two kinds of error (evanhahn.com)

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Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering (maderix.substack.com)

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Sites with a /Now Page (nownownow.com)

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How Awesome? annotates GitHub awesome lists with repo stats, stars, last commit (libklein.com)

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Working with file extensions in bash scripts (johndcook.com)

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How I'm Using Local Large Language Models (jvt.me)

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Dave's Book Review for the Art of Doing Science and Engineering (ratfactor.com)

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CSP for Pentesters: Understanding the Fundamentals (kayssel.com)

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Why consumer choice is stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it (mataroa.blog)

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"Our programs are fun to use" – Beagle Bros (aresluna.org)

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Cash issuing terminals (computer.rip)

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An interactive version of Xkcd 2347, the dependency comic (nesbitt.io)

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Disable Your SSH access accidentally with scp (sny.sh)

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Have We Forgotten How to Design? (lmnt.me)

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Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data (timcappalli.me)

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Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993 (graydon2.dreamwidth.org)

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Energym: Move the World (aicandy.be)

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The Longest Line of Sight (tombh.co.uk)

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Hacker Used Anthropic's Claude to Steal Mexican Data Trove (bloomberg.com)

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We Are the One and Only You (onefoottsunami.com)

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Sub-second volumetric 3D printing by synthesis of holographic light fields (nature.com)

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Gawk 5.4.0 is released, with replaced MinRX matcher (lists.gnu.org)

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Another round of reporting on feed readers (rachelbythebay.com)

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It's Called the 'Fitbit for Farts'–and It's No Joke (wsj.com)

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Apple in 2025: The Six Colors report card (sixcolors.com)

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Surprisingly Frugal Hobbies (cmart.blog)

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What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust (smallcultfollowing.com)

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We Have Pgvector at Home (theconsensus.dev)

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Parsemail – web-based raw email parser and attachment decoder (parsemail.org)

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Lobste.rs Migrates from MariaDB to SQLite (lobste.rs)

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The Origins of Computers on Overhead Projectors [video] (youtube.com)

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End of Productivity Theater (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

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The Unbearable Weight of Cruft (joanwestenberg.com)

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ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives (github.com/redrum0381)

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Hold on to Your Hardware (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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IPv6 Adoption in 2026 (netmeister.org)

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Lords of the Ring: The cultural politics of sumo wrestling (harpers.org)

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The Musidex: A physical music library for the streaming era (hannahilea.com)

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Why Not Objective-C (inessential.com)

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Collection of Slide Rule Replicas (thingsabove.github.io)

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Sizing chaos (pudding.cool)

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Lessons learned from `oapi-codegen`'s time in the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund (jvt.me)

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A No-Name Director to Everyone but His 38M Fans (theatlantic.com)

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Open Source and GenAI? (tbray.org)

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The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard revisited (lapcatsoftware.com)

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The Complicated Legacy of Mind Controlled Toys (hackaday.com)

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Level of Detail (phinze.com)

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Extremely Lazy and Immensely Curious (randsinrepose.com)

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Quamina and Claude, Case 1 (tbray.org)

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From PDF to .LBR: Using Deep Think to Write Custom CAD Parts (adafruit.com)

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My Claude Code Toolkit (newartisans.com)

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A Programmer's Loss of Identity (ratfactor.com)

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The wonder of modern drywall (worksinprogress.co)

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Results from the Advent of FPGA Challenge (janestreet.com)

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Motorola's Password Pill Was Just One Idea (hackaday.com)

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A few design decisions for a new chat platform (sporks.space)

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AI-Driven SRE Tools. Please Stop (yesthatblog.com)

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macOS Tahoe no longer supports Time Capsules (eclecticlight.co)

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Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies (steveblank.com)

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Open-source network simulators and emulators in 2026 (opensourcenetworksimulators.com)

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How the Little Guy Moved (animationobsessive.substack.com)

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Sandwich Bill of Materials (nesbitt.io)

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The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail (nix-ci.com)

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Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth (soranews24.com)

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Dependency Resolution Methods (nesbitt.io)

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Monster Hunter: An Evolutionary Story (jgeekstudies.org)

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It's all a blur (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Git's Magic Files (nesbitt.io)

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I'm in the Epstein Files (lapcatsoftware.com)

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OpenBSD on SGI (part 1 of 6) (online.fr)

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My review of the Tadpole-RDI Ultra Book lli from 25 years ago this month (liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org)

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Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation (jsgroth.dev)

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When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown (rachelbythebay.com)

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The F Word (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

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Link Shortening Tools Are High Risk (forkingmad.blog)

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The Coherence Premium (joanwestenberg.com)

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Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Before ChatGPT-HW debate there were other "If students use X to do HW" debates (computationalcomplexity.org)

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Margin Call (asymco.com)

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Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle (dmitrybrant.com)