Articles by zdw
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Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer (luminousmen.substack.com)

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A collection of the best SVG images of pelicans riding bicycles (github.com/scosman)

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Good-egg – Trust scoring for GitHub PR authors based on contribution history (github.com/2ndsetai)

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Making the most pickproof lock yet [video] (youtube.com)

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The Simple Math Behind Social Security (mrmoneymustache.com)

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Contact Lens Uses Microfluidics to Monitor and Treat Glaucoma (ieee.org)

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Not Your Father's Internet (systemsapproach.org)

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Theseus, a Static Windows Emulator (neugierig.org)

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5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens (maurycyz.com)

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Colombia will euthanize Pablo Escobar's invasive 'cocaine hippos' (scientificamerican.com)

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Decision Density (jamesshelley.com)

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Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments (seangoedecke.com)

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Bodega Cats of New York (bodegacatsofnewyork.com)

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Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage (healthchecks.io)

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Engels' Pause and the Permanent Underclass (fabricatedknowledge.com)

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Loonies for Loongsons (leadedsolder.com)

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A new spam policy for “back button hijacking” (developers.google.com)

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Sometimes powerful people just do dumb shit (joanwestenberg.com)

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Hybrid Constructions: The Post-Quantum Safety Blanket (soatok.blog)

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Let's talk space toilets (mceglowski.substack.com)

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App Store Curation 2: The Scammer Strikes Back (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Conway: Think Networks First, Actors Second (wildeboer.net)

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How to build a `Git diff` driver (jvt.me)

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We ran Doom on a 40 year old printer controller (Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS) [video] (youtube.com)

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Advanced Mac Substitute is an API-level reimplementation of 1980s-era Mac OS (v68k.org)

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Voting Through the Veil: John Rawls on selfish vs. selfless voting (nonzerosum.games)

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Game: Print Gallery Of An Artist, A brief exploration of recursive spaces (managore.itch.io)

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The Yak Is Back (b10g.xyz)

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You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings (eclecticlight.co)

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Why I quit "The Strive" (joanwestenberg.com)

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I Let Claude Code Autonomously Run Ads for a Month (technically.dev)

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A Tour of Oodi (blinry.org)

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Will Your Job Exist in Five Years: Are you coal, or are you a horse? (theatlantic.com)

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An Interview with Pat Gelsinger (morethanmoore.substack.com)

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Giving LLMs a Formal Reasoning Engine for Code Analysis (yogthos.net)

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You Can Just Print an Air Purifier (aftermath.site)

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Layoff Thinking (newardassociates.com)

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Investigating Split Locks on x86-64 (chipsandcheese.com)

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Why Japan has such good railways (worksinprogress.co)

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Principles of Mechanical Sympathy (martinfowler.com)

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People love to work hard (anildash.com)

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Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard? (aresluna.org)

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Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards (spoon-tamago.com)

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OpenNMC is an open network management card platform for APC SmartSlot UPS units (gitlab.com/netcube-systems-austria)

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Shooting down ideas is not a skill (scottlawsonbc.com)

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What does Open Source mean? (nesbitt.io)

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Why stdout is faster than stderr? (2024) (orhun.dev)

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Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs (newardassociates.com)

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Why LLM-Generated Passwords Are Dangerously Insecure (irregular.com)

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The beginning of programming as we'll know it? (bitsplitting.org)

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The JetStream 3 Benchmark Suite (webkit.org)

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Infinite Midwit (experimental-history.com)

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Googlebot: demystifying crawling, fetching, and the bytes we process (developers.google.com)

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DCJ11Hack+ – DEC PDP/11 based homebrew computer (codeberg.org/techpaula)

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The curious case of retro demo scene graphics (datagubbe.se)

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The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history (righto.com)

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Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh (stonetools.ghost.io)

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AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip (arstechnica.com)

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Desk for people who work at home with a cat (soranews24.com)

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Prompt Engineering Is Not. Engineering, That Is (the-infrastructure-mindset.ghost.io)

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A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support (mceglowski.substack.com)

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App Store Connect analytics missing platform versions (lapcatsoftware.com)

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I Can't See Apple's Vision (matduggan.com)

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Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity) (hofstede.it)

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China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000 (kdwalmsley.substack.com)

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Supreme Court rules ISPs aren't liable for subscribers' music piracy (engadget.com)

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Why I Got Out Of The Gambling Business (defector.com)

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PyTheory Is Awesome (kennethreitz.org)

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Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed (lapcatsoftware.com)

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A Love Letter to 'Girl Games' (aftermath.site)

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Model collapse is already happening (acm.org)

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AgentBridge – Let AI Talk to Your Classic Mac (github.com/seanfdz)

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EMachines never obsolete PCs: More than a meme (dfarq.homeip.net)

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LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language? (dnhkng.github.io)

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A mission NASA might kill is still returning science from Jupiter (arstechnica.com)

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IRIX 3dfx Voodoo driver and glide2x IRIX port (sdz-mods.com)

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Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus Content Creation Review (pugetsystems.com)

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Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles (chipsandcheese.com)

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The Slow Collapse of MkDocs (fpgmaas.com)

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How to attract AI bots to your open source project (nesbitt.io)

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SSH Certificates and Git Signing (codon.org.uk)

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BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor (bunniestudios.com)

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How the world’s first electric grid was built (worksinprogress.co)

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Open Community License v1 an unusual non-commercial license from 3D printing (kemitchell.com)

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BeatPaxos: Can you break the consensus protocol? (muratdem.github.io)

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How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written (2020) (danluu.com)

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From a Law to an Ethic – a framework for individual digital responsibility (mikegodwin.substack.com)

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Clock-accurate FPGA replacement for NES PPU (github.com/andkorzh)

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A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era (msn.com)

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Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today (grepular.com)

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The US Is Counting Traffic Deaths Wrong (bloomberg.com)

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Why AI agents need to learn to read the room (fin.ai)

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Framework doesn't matter (cemrehancavdar.com)

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Schedule meetings using the Pareto principle (boydkane.com)

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Safari web browser bugs: A year in review (lapcatsoftware.com)

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On The Need For Understanding (information-superhighway.net)

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If computers are the future why are users expected to be permanently illiterate? (lapcatsoftware.com)

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Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the Apple Watch [video] (youtube.com)

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The story of one of my worst programming failures (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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The tests are the code now (softwaredoug.com)