Articles by zdw
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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)

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How Apple Hooks Fifty Thousand Methods [video] (youtube.com)

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Why Do Lawyers Want to Abolish ICE? [video] (youtube.com)

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The Disconnected Git Workflow (ploum.net)

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Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025 (pugetsystems.com)

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Learning New Tech with AI Assistance Might Backfire (anup.io)

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Backseat Software (mikeswanson.com)

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SRE Is Anti-Transactional (acm.org)

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Why do RSS readers look like email clients? (terrygodier.com)

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Linux Kernel Project Continuity (github.com/torvalds)

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Trust them, don't trust it (bfswa.substack.com)

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Want to Reach Nirvana? Try a Colonoscopy (nytimes.com)

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Supreme Court to consider whether geofence warrants are constitutional (therecord.media)

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Blocking Claude (aphyr.com)

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

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

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

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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)

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Controlling the Wizzard (leadedsolder.com)

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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)

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

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The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking (fs.blog)

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Quantum Computing for Lawyers (bfswa.substack.com)

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

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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)

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

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

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Building a Quake PC (fabiensanglard.net)

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Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid (joanwestenberg.com)

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

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How to Debug Your Life (joanwestenberg.com)