Articles by zdw
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UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro (lispm.net)

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SMPTE Makes Its Standards Freely Accessible (smpte.org)

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Ribbie, Live Baseball in Pixels (ribbie.tv)

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Tesla's self-driving safeguards fooled by $30 doll heads (electrek.co)

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Sinceerly, AI to undo your AI writing (sinceerly.com)

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[flagged] I restarted a 10 year old Xeon 174 times to delete 12 flags and gain 4 tps (point.free)

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Open Source vs. the Invisible Hand (nesbitt.io)

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Running MicroVMs in Proxmox VE, the Easy Way (taoofmac.com)

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Windows NT for GameCube/Wii (github.com/wack0)

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Comparisons as Predictable as the Sunrise (pudding.cool)

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UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025) (clisystems.com)

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AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less (charity.wtf)

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Passing Cloudflare Turnstile using two fingers (gingerbeardman.com)

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Serendipity: The Role of Luck in Your Life and Career (ritholtz.com)

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Making glass-to-metal seals for home­made vacuum tubes (maurycyz.com)

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Half-Life able to run on ReactOS (xcancel.com)

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What Every Productivity App Trades Away [video] (youtube.com)

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Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks (science.org)

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The MilkV Jupiter 2/SpacemiT K3 (taoofmac.com)

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The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car (kottke.org)

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Reddit RSS feeds recent rate limiting and solution (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan (tokyopaladin.substack.com)

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240-MP is a retro VCR style front end for content on Raspberry Pi (on a CRT TV) (github.com/anthonycaccese)

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Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale (mvdirona.com)

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Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It (newyorker.com)

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Why Isn't AI Taking Our Jobs? (calnewport.com)

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The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age (2022) (theatlantic.com)

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Speech Plus Prose 2000 vintage speech synthesizer, as used by Stephen Hawking [video] (youtube.com)

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Why Are Linux I/O Devices Called TTY? [video] (youtube.com)

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Thoughts on starting new projects with LLM agents (thegreenplace.net)

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NEC PC Engine LT Recap and LCD Bias Fix (Necromancy) (hitmanmcc.com)

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How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go? (lemire.me)

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Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose (oshogbo.com)

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NetBSD's Annual General Meeting 2026 (netbsd.org)

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Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack (brixit.nl)

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More Molly Guards (aresluna.org)

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A Server Called Mercury (kennethreitz.org)

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Shift work and booking maintenance on the calendar (rachelbythebay.com)

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Optimizing for Text-Mode Browsers (schemescape.com)

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The Industrialization of Academic Research (computationalcomplexity.org)

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How Other Link Checkers Do Recursion (endler.dev)

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Floating Point: The Origin Story (thechipletter.substack.com)

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I Found a Bug in Apple's Fsck_hfs (medium.com/kivancgunalp)

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thunderbolt-ibverbs: We have InfiniBand at home (hellas.ai)

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Samurai City (worksinprogress.co)

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Apple M1 Chip Deep-Dive [video] (youtube.com)

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On Reading SRAMs in IR Images, and Establishing Bounds on Trust (bunniestudios.com)

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Loading Sega Games Off a Vinyl Record [video] (youtube.com)

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How to Build a Shitty Robot (mariozechner.at)

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OpenRidingController – DIY horse riding controller for the PC (github.com/squalius-cephalus)

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PCMFlowG722 wideband (HD voice) codec for ESP32 (github.com/tanakamasayuki)

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Movwin: My (Unpublished) TUI Framework (movq.de)

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Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT (taoofmac.com)

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The Social Contract of Writing (jola.dev)

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I Found the Lost Amiga Unix 2.02 [video] (youtube.com)

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Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore (unix.foo)

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A few interesting modern pixel fonts (aresluna.org)

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On God and LLMs (calnewport.com)

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Human Bottlenecks (borretti.me)

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Who Builds a House Without Drawing Blueprints? (2015) (acm.org)

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Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier? (amd.com)

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Evaluating Spec CPU2026 (chipsandcheese.com)

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The Skeuomorphism Nobody Talks About [video] (youtube.com)

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Lisa's Copy (and Cut, and Paste) (aresluna.org)

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The Mythical App Store Reviewer Month (lapcatsoftware.com)

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AI errno(2) values (netmeister.org)

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Tour of Datacenters in the SLC Valley (discuss.systems)

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Your Most Improbable Life (kk.org)

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Migrating from Go to Rust (corrode.dev)

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A Markdown-based test suite (blogsystem5.substack.com)

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The Dark Side of the Jevons Paradox (calnewport.com)

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Designing an FPGA Calculator from Scratch (baltazarstudios.com)

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Cats Lock – keyboard lock for cat people (catslock.app)

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The History of ThinkPad: From IBM’s Bento Box to Lenovo’s AI Workstations (jdhodges.com)

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The occasional ECONNRESET (movq.de)

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Intro to TLA+ for the LLM Era: Prompt Your Way to Victory (emptysqua.re)

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Hosting a website on an 8-bit microcontroller (maurycyz.com)

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The lasting influence of Netscape Time (thehistoryoftheweb.com)

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Make zip files smaller with zip shrinker (evanhahn.com)

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A Preview of the Future (aresluna.org)

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Training an LLM in Swift, Part 1: Taking matrix mult from Gflop/s to Tflop/s (cocoawithlove.com)

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Artificial Was a Compliment (worksinprogress.co)

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Building the TD4 4-Bit CPU (jayakody2000lk.blogspot.com)

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The vi Family (ath0.com)

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OpenBSD Stories: The closest thing to cute kittens (OpenBSD/zaurus) (online.fr)

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Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso (mceglowski.substack.com)

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Charging a Phone with a Hamster [video] (youtube.com)

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Defeating Works by Design's Unpickable Lock [video] (youtube.com)

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What makes a good smartphone camera? (cadence.moe)

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Testing Mac OS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

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They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They're Sworn Enemies (wired.com)

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Mouse Pointer as a Mere Mortal (aresluna.org)

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Automating Hermitage to see how transactions differ in MySQL and MariaDB (theconsensus.dev)

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Tripwire: An experiment in zip bombing bad actors (func.lol)

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Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community (feld.me)

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Pie Thieves (endnotes.net)

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The Enhanced Games, Where Athletes Compete on Steroids, HGH, Adderall (vanityfair.com)

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Building a Gaming PC Without Using Intel, AMD or Nvidia Parts [video] (youtube.com)

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Collective Speed Is Not the Summation of Individual Speed (jim-nielsen.com)

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Eka’s robotic claw feels like we're approaching a ChatGPT moment (wired.com)