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Even More Batteries Included With Emacs

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Deconstructing Datalog

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Building a serial and VGA "everything console"

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Opensource AI Must Win

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A generic dynamic array in C that stores no capacity and needs no struct

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The APLR(1) Algorithm for Generating Compact LR(1) Parsers is Simpler and More Capable than IELR(1)

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A columnar database for analytics in pure Clojure

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Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Nix Flakes and their Guix Equivalents

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What are you doing this weekend?

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yserver: A modern X11 server written from scratch in Rust

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There Is Life Before Main in Rust

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Reuse Less Software

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Your Interface Has Two Channels

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merman: Mermaid.js, but headless, in Rust

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An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

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Static types and shovels

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Nontrailing separators do not spark joy

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Trojaned OpenSSH (in 2002)

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New reCaptcha requires approved phones to pass

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A line-by-line translation of the OCaml runtime from C to Rust

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Are We Harold Bloom?

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Only Bounds

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What Yahoo killed when it bought Maktoob

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The Decline of Search Engines is an Opportunity

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What I got wrong about fast terminals

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Forgejo monthly report - May 2026

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Vulnerability and malware checks in uv

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Can we stop tagging every thing as vibecoding?

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I wish Deno would keep doing what it does best

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HTMX Is So Cool I Rolled My Own

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GentleOS - A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs

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Premature Optimization is Fun Sometimes

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How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?

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verifying /proc

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Recapping the London Mercurial sprint

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The User Doesn't Care - But you should

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mold-desktop

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To my students

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Getting silly with C, part &((int*)-8)[3]

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Ergonomic overrides for Nixpkgs

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Life is too short for a slow terminal

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If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II

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The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite

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Total Reciprocity Public License

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An announcement from the Steering Council regarding the JIT project

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The smallest C binary

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Using Fedora Silverblue for Compositor Development

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Win16 Memory Management

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PolyForm Licenses

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How do you sieve/filter/manage your internet mail?

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The Empty Field That Wasn't: GPS Broadcasts a Numbers Station

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Changing How We Develop Ladybird

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Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction

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Code is Cheap(er)

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Branchless Quicksort

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A faster bump allocator for rust

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IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake

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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy

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Designing a better podcast editor

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RP2040 DMA is Turing Complete (2023)

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The C++ Standard Library Has Been Walking Itself Back for Fifteen Years, and the Receipts Are Public

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Extension or Imitation? Can you tell the valid Haskell Language Extensions, from the Impostors?

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My Software North Star

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Safe Made Easy Pt.1: Single Ownership is (Not) Optional

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Parsing XML EXIF from .avif files (plus a rant)

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mimalloc: A new, high-performance, scalable memory allocator for the modern era

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Gleam v1.17 - Single file Gleam BEAM programs with escript

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rsync and outrage

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PaceVer (an alternative to SemVer, for mobile apps)

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Oils - Reviewing Our NLnet Grants After 4 Years

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Edsger โ€“ a handwritten Clojure REPL for the reMarkable 2

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revo, the programming language

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iddqd, or the hardest kind of unsafe Rust

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Memory safety is a matter of life and death

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Vim Classic 8.3 released

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Quality in the Age of Slop

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kelvin versioning

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Browser identification through header order

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Why Janet? (2023)

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The Newest Instagram "Exploit" is the Goofiest I've Seen

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Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?

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Announcing Zstandard in Rust

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QBE - Compiler Backend: Version 1.3

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Tracing HTTP Requests with Go's net/http/httptrace

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What are you doing this week?

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The software industry: annealing, but wrong

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Adding Offline Mode and Custom Servers to an MMORPG

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vibecoding as adhd multiplier

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Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI

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You Must Fix Your Asserts

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I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for ยฃ200

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The S in interoperability

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Website checklist

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A simple project switcher for Kakoune

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Ahoy, DECmate II! the little PDP-8 that could

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My Accessibility Stack and the future on Wayland

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ELF Linker Improvements in Zig

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A New Design for Pretty Printer Implementations in Rust

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Voxel Space

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NixOS 26.05 released

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Nix on Sailfish X (Sailfish OS for Sony Xperia)

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On Rendering Diffs

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What Is a Dickover?

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EV Stupidity Checklist

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CVE-2026-48710: A Maintainer's Perspective

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Why I am against GenAI and everything it stands for

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bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding

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Flathub disallows LLM-based submissions

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Leaving performance on the table

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You probably don't need Yocto, and that's fine

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How do you version public web APIs?

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SQLite Does Not Accept Agentic Code

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tail CI logs over SSH

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One year of Roto, the compiled scripting language for Rust

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jjc: Non-interactive hunk-level operations for Jujutsu

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Nitpicking the shell history scene in โ€˜Tron: Legacyโ€™

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What's cooking on SourceHut? Q2 2026

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Why Gentoo?

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A Love Letter to Neovim

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CSCI 1377: Tools for Thought (Spring 2026)

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A new register allocator for ZJIT

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Atom Exhaustion Is Not a Footgun. It's One Third of Our CVEs

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MacSurf: NetSurf for Mac OS 9

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A brief note about slot access cost in Common Lisp

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5 PostgreSQL locking behaviors that trip people up

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May I recommend thinking of Emacs as your Fortress of Solitude

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Keyboard latency probe

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What are some of your favourite developer tools?

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Build System Reworked

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Theseus: translating win32 to wasm

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Fast is better than slow

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Software For My New Home Server

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Building an AsyncIO executor for the 3DS

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What is a harmonic? An interactive comic about additive synthesis

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Using SwiftUI to Build a Mac-assed App in 2026

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Human proof for FOSS contributions

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Announcing BABLR

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The User Is Visibly Frustrated

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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas

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A Simple Makefile Tutorial (2008)

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Switching to Colemak

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Fully in-browser container builds

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What are you doing this week?

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Scoped Error in Rust

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Building Pi with Pi

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JS Crossword - a crossword where the clue = eval(answer)

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Discussion about C array type semantics

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Flatpak will depend on systemd

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your dotfiles are not a distro

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No Linux support on free version of Vivado 2026.1

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How my minimal, memory-safe Go rsync steers clear of vulnerabilities

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A Network Allow-List Won't Stop Exfiltration

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Declarative partial updates

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remind(1) -- calendar and alarm program

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.NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types

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Procedural Fascicle for R7RS Large Scheme

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Jira is Turing-Complete

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Hershey is a textual vector font format

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z386: An Open-Source 80386 Built Around Original Microcode - Small Things Retro

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Cuneiforth: A Forth for your Chifir

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Wayland compositor implemented as a mod in Minecraft

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mvm - a fast virtual machine for Go

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That one time I used Go panics for flow control

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A new suite of modern tools coming for editing and publishing RFCs

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Don't Roll Your Own โ€ฆ

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The price of humans

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sp.h is the standard library that C deserves

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CVE-2026-46529: 10-year-old RCE in Linux PDF Viewer (XReader/Evince/Atril)

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A blueprint for formal verification of Apple corecrypto

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The Maintainer's Dilemma

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What are you doing this weekend?

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Megalodon: Mass GitHub Repo Backdooring via CI Workflows

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C Programming Language Quiz

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FTC to Require Cox Media Group to Pay Nearly $1million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About โ€œActive Listeningโ€ AI-Powered Marketing Service

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Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It

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Introducing the pkg.go.dev API

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Announcing Web Serial Support in Firefox

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Dependency cooldowns are unfair; we should use phased rollouts instead

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Kubernetes In Anger

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[RFC] LLVM Foundation statement in favor of open access to standards documents

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Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis

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Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding

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The Mislabeled Bricks of Utopia

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Chromium publishes fixed exploit 4 years later, turns out it's actually unfixed

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Why does the arrow (->) operator in C exist?

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XSS Is Deadly for Passkeys: The Hidden Risk of Attestation None

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Golfing Zig ELF Binaries (2025)

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GitHub Source Code Breach - TeamPCP Claims Access to Internal Source Code

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If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly

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Why Ruby Still Feels Like Home After All These Years

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Better generated branch names with jj

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How we used Quint to find over 10 bugs in SQLite while hardening Turso

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Type out the code

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What would you want from a forge?

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The Super Tiny Compiler, but in Ada

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OpenBSD 7.9 released

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Software's Centaur Era

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My domain got abused on Github Pages

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of ProseMirror Model in Rich Text Transformation

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Spork: A posix_spawn you can use as a fork

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Introducing Casuarina Linux: A glibc-Based Chimera Linux Derivative

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Programming as Theory Building (1985)

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Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now

May 18ยท1 min readยท8 words

Misconceptions about the UNIX Philosophy (2024)

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Deโ€bloating Javascript

May 18ยท1 min readยท3 words

What are you doing this week?

May 18ยท1 min readยท27 words

Find bugs in YOUR code using OpenCode, Llama.cpp and Qwen3.6

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The occasional `ECONNRESET`

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Rust async and the ARM generic timer

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May I recommend eww for Emacsโ€™s innovative UI?

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Fits on a Floppy - A Manifesto for Small Software

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Bun's problem may be developing in the open

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Don't answer the first question

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Reviewing so called Pull Requests at $dayjob

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Coding on Paper

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Claude Code managed to get Adobe Lightroom working on Linux

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Native all the way, until you need text

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

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Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

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The Tomy Tutor and the state of 1983 home computers

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Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today

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Subscription Bombing: Email under Attack

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The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Really Means

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Recent Kernel exploits, attack surface reduction, example IPSEC

May 16ยท1 min readยท9 words

A 90's era Keygen-like for X11 for Unix/Linux

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A few ways of specifying per-theme colours in only CSS

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My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite

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Ascetic Computing

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The CTF scene is dead

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LLM generated submissions should be disallowed

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Git Is Not Fine

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What are you doing this weekend?

May 15ยท1 min readยท38 words

SQL: Incorrect by Construction

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why use F# for scripting and automation?

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Community building at the edge of the Internet

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Prolog Basics Explained with Pokรฉmon

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In what way if any are you a tech minimalist while maintaining your job/love for tech?

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A Simple Runtime Invariant Miner

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Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt

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"This is written by an LLM" comments should be flagged as off-topic

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Passwords suck. Can passkeys replace them?

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httpx2 - Fork by Pydantic

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Points are a weird and inconsistent unit of measure

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Lua as a practical "soft-bedrock" language

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The Most Emacs Bzr Saga

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Sovereign Tech Fund invests over โ‚ฌ1 million in KDE software development

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Erlang/OTP 29.0 Release

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MacBook Neo Review: The Laptop For The Rest Of Us

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Partial static single information form

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what 262,715 regex questions on stack overflow haven't answered

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The BeBox: BeOS Hardware, Photos, and the Apple Deal That Wasn't

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What is BusyBox?

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Redis and the Cost of Ambition

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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

May 12ยท1 min readยท9 words

All the ways to mock your Rust code

May 12ยท1 min readยท8 words

Killing a `Cow` made my JSON formatter 42% faster

May 12ยท1 min readยท9 words

A Technical Guide to Compiling Emacs for Performance on Linux and Unix systems

May 12ยท1 min readยท13 words

The Problem of Pedagogy in Advanced Mathematics

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Popular Go library fsnotify raises supply chain alarms after maintainer access changes

May 12ยท1 min readยท12 words

Zig vs Rust in 2026

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Gram 2.0.0 released

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"Respectful" YAML patching in Rust

May 11ยท1 min readยท5 words

Moving from lsp-mode in GNU Emacs to Eglot

May 11ยท1 min readยท8 words

What is random generation?

May 11ยท1 min readยท4 words

Programmable Whitelist-based Configs: Embedding Rye in Go

May 11ยท1 min readยท7 words

Fully Preserving Fisher-Price Pixter

May 11ยท1 min readยท4 words

Childhood Computing

May 10ยท1 min readยท2 words

the 90 day disclosure policy is dead

May 10ยท1 min readยท7 words

We see something that works, and then we understand it

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wayland.fyi minimalist wayland special interest group

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So you've installed `fzf`. Now what? (2023)

May 10ยท1 min readยท7 words

Debian must ship reproducible packages

May 10ยท1 min readยท5 words

Point-Free Logic Programming

May 10ยท1 min readยท3 words

Flipping the bozo bit on flips the learning off

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Laptops all have built-in security tokens these days

May 9ยท1 min readยท8 words

Yggdrasil Network as an Embedded Go Library

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I Will Not Add Query Strings to Your URLs

May 9ยท1 min readยท9 words

The React2Shell Story and What Happened Next.js

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On forking the Web

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Inflorescence โ€“ A cross-platform native GUI for Pijul

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Chromeโ€™s AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

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killswitch: per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive

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I learned something about GPUs today

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NixOS and Secrets

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What We Lost the Last Time Code Got Cheap

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The `Sync` bound nobody asked for

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Just Fucking Use Go

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Stop MITM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider

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building a web server in aarch64 assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning

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What are you doing this weekend?

May 8ยท1 min readยท6 words

blaise: A modern, self-hosting Object Pascal compiler built for the 2020s. Zero legacy, full ARC, and unified UTF-8

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cuda-oxide: cuda-oxide is an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler

May 8ยท1 min readยท7 words

Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo

May 8ยท1 min readยท5 words

Why Donโ€™t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII?

May 7ยท1 min readยท11 words

Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story

May 7ยท1 min readยท11 words

jj v0.41.0 is out

May 7ยท1 min readยท4 words

Potential Consequences of Using Postgres as a Job Queue

May 7ยท1 min readยท9 words

AI Slop is Killing Online Communities

May 7ยท1 min readยท6 words

Making your own programming language is easier than you think (but also harder)

May 7ยท1 min readยท13 words

cursed_browser: A web browser with no rendering engine โ€” the VLM reads the HTML and hallucinates the page

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Open weights are quietly closing up - and that's a problem

May 6ยท1 min readยท11 words

How an HTTP header caused time.gov to skew from UTC

May 6ยท1 min readยท10 words

Peer Production License

May 6ยท1 min readยท3 words

Building the deployment tool I wish I had

May 6ยท1 min readยท8 words

Scroll-Driven Animations

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Multi-stroke text effect in CSS

May 6ยท1 min readยท5 words

Emacs Completion Showcase with VOMPECCC

May 6ยท1 min readยท5 words

Go is FIPS 140-3 certified

May 6ยท1 min readยท5 words

Principia Softwarica

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krabby: making a fast Rust compiler

May 5ยท1 min readยท6 words

SLAM: s6/synit based NixOS

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Comparing the Z80 and 6502 to Their Relatives

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Why didnโ€™t IPv6 work in my home network?

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claude code is not making your product better

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A bidirectional typechecking puzzle

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A Caddy Cert Expired Because systemd-resolved Was Selectively Broken

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Post-Quantum VPN Based on QUIC

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Bun (the js runtime) is being vibe-ported from zig to rust

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Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit

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Security Advisory: Local privilege escalation in Lix and Nix

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Oasis Linux

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Release v0.9.0 ยท Foxboron/ssh-tpm-agent

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Losing Skills

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Async Rust never left the MVP state

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oops, cubic macro

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What are you doing this week?

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Native macOS app to track YouTube channels, no Google login required

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Agentic Coding is a Trap

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This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code

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Fake Notepad++ for Mac

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Your Container Is Not a Sandbox

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My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS

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pgBackRest is dead. Now what?

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Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs

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Unsigned sizes: a five year mistake

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Open Source Does Not Imply Open Community

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PEP 661 โ€“ Sentinel Values, accepted 5 years later

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What fun websites do you know?

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Agentic Coding is Burning Me Out

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Screw you Realtek

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Why TUIs are back

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I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden

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The Architect's Instinct

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Reducing ML-KEM-768 encapsulation key sizes by 24 octets

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What Conferences are You Excited to Attend in the Next 12 Months?

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Inverse Sapir-Whorf and programming languages

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combat LLM spam by building a web of trust

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Progressive Web Components

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micro-benchmarks donโ€™t tell the whole story

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Why I Donโ€™t Vibe Code

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What even is Ecma? (Part 1)

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Life of a Packet in Amazon EKS

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What are you doing this weekend?

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Porting microgpt to Futhark, Part I

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The LLM Is Not a Junior Engineer

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Techniques for better software testing

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GCC 16 Release Series: Changes, New Features, and Fixes

Apr 30ยท1 min readยท9 words

Mozilla's position on the Prompt API

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in which more paths are charted towards code independence

Apr 30ยท1 min readยท9 words

GitHub is sinking

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Your Clippy Config Should Be Stricter

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Functional Programmers need to take a look at Zig

Apr 29ยท1 min readยท9 words

Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban

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KDEโ€™s 30th anniversary

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Blessed Syntax and Ergonomics

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Stable specialization in Rust

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Why I Still Reach for Lisp (& Scheme) Instead of Haskell

Apr 29ยท1 min readยท11 words

From GitHub to Codeberg/Forgejo

Apr 28ยท1 min readยท4 words

I Built My Own Hair Electrolysis Machine

Apr 28ยท1 min readยท7 words

Ditching GitHub

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Ghostty Is Leaving GitHub

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Using a 1978 terminal in 2026 (DEC VT-100)

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Illegal vs Unwanted States

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Bypassing DPI with eBPF, no VPN or proxy needed

Apr 28ยท1 min readยท9 words

Who Owns the Code Claude Wrote?

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FOSDEM 2026 - All FOSDEM 2026 videos are online

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jjj

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Donating to open source

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How I Broke the Anti-Bot Behind Nike, Kick, and Twitch

Apr 28ยท1 min readยท10 words

"Why not just use Lean?"

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I won my FOIA against Twelve South to open up the electrical information for the PlugBug 120W

Apr 27ยท1 min readยท17 words

Email is crazy

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What are you doing this week?

Apr 27ยท1 min readยท6 words

From Milliseconds to 26 Nanoseconds: How a $20 eBay SFP Module Beat My Entire NTP Setup

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Wasm is not quite a stack machine

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Let's Build the Terminal Pt. 1

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Let's Build the Terminal Pt. 1

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HardenedBSD Is Now Officially on Radicle

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Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (Bill Joy, 2000)

Apr 26ยท1 min readยท9 words

Dillo release 3.3.0

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Lua can be a really cool HTML templating engine

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Swissing a table

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The fastest Linux timestamps

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Why C Remains the Gold Standard for Cryptographic Software

Apr 26ยท1 min readยท9 words

I Left Port 22 Open on the Internet for 54 Days. Here's Who Showed Up

Apr 26ยท1 min readยท15 words

A breakthrough in C/C++ dependency management

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My Homemade PBX

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The Mac App Gold Rush in the Age of Vibe Coding

Apr 25ยท1 min readยท11 words

You don't want long-lived keys

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What are you doing this weekend?

Apr 25ยท1 min readยท6 words

Your CPU Has More Registers Than You'd Think

Apr 25ยท1 min readยท8 words

Avoid Shipping Your Org Chart

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Do I belong in tech anymore?

Apr 25ยท1 min readยท6 words

Gleam gets source maps, 1.16.0

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Cloudflare Email Service is a deliverability bet dressed as an agents launch

Apr 24ยท1 min readยท12 words

The Nintendo Switch Switch (2019)

Apr 24ยท1 min readยท5 words

Multiple things can be true at the same time

Apr 24ยท1 min readยท9 words

Using the internet like its 1999

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Hire based on the conversation about code, not the code itself

Apr 24ยท1 min readยท11 words

i found an old telephone and made it control spotify

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Sloppy Copies

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What are the best developer tools built around Markdown?

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llm.rb is Ruby's most capable AI runtime

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raylib v6.0

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Who even uses jemalloc in 2026 anyway? (many major projects)

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Announcing TypeScript 7.0 Beta

Apr 21ยท1 min readยท4 words

I don't want your PRs anymore

Apr 21ยท1 min readยท6 words

Switching from uv to PDM

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Performance of the Wren programming language

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How are you protecting yourself against the imminent AI dooms zero day?

Apr 21ยท1 min readยท12 words

grasp: a simple protocol for decentralized git

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Finishing Things

Apr 21ยท1 min readยท2 words

What is your go-to project for learning a new language?

Apr 21ยท1 min readยท10 words

Wait is over - coreboot on the AMD StarBook

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Signal Shot: a project to verify the Signal protocol and its Rust implementation using Lean

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Jujutsu megamerges for fun and profit

Apr 20ยท1 min readยท6 words

Stalwart v0.16: A New Foundation

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Quantum Computers Are Not a Threat to 128-bit Symmetric Keys

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PyTexas 2026 Recap

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Transpiling from Python into Lisp

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Forgejo v15.0 is available

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Your engineering team looks healthy. It probably isn't

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Modern Frontend Complexity: essential or accidental?

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Obelisk 0.37: JavaScript, Deployments, Cron

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What are you doing this week?

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Claude Desktop installs undocumented browser extensions for Chrome and other browsers

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Theseus, a static Windows emulator

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Introducing Glyph Protocol for Terminals

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What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023)

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postmarketOS Conference

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waves & particles

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The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker

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Anthropic Claude Code Leak Reveals Critical Command Injection Vulnerabilities

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Anthropic's Claude Mythos Launch Is Built on Misinformation

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SQLite prefixes its temp files with `etilqs_`

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Running a Minecraft Server and more on a 1960s UNIVAC Computer

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How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ frontend infrastructure in Rust

Apr 18ยท1 min readยท12 words

Lenses in Rust and My Solution

Apr 18ยท1 min readยท6 words

Deleteduser.com โ€”a $15 PII Magnet

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Why is IPv6 so complicated?

Apr 17ยท1 min readยท5 words

The lost thesis of Dennis Ritchie

Apr 17ยท1 min readยท6 words

We beat Googleโ€™s zero-knowledge proof of quantum cryptanalysis

Apr 17ยท1 min readยท8 words

tangled newsletter 01 โ€” hello

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HTTP desync in Discord's media proxy: Spying on a whole platform

Apr 17ยท1 min readยท11 words

What are you doing this weekend?

Apr 17ยท1 min readยท6 words

git-kv: Key-value store attached to git commits using Git notes

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Okay, what actually uses Rust

Apr 16ยท1 min readยท5 words

Stop using JWTs

Apr 16ยท1 min readยท3 words

A time travel debugger for WebAssembly

Apr 16ยท1 min readยท6 words

The age of snarky UI

Apr 16ยท1 min readยท5 words

Mastodon: Don't use "mastodon" or "mstdn" in domain names

Apr 16ยท1 min readยท9 words

Switching higher-order streams to first-order streams

Apr 16ยท1 min readยท6 words

You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away

Apr 15ยท1 min readยท11 words

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

Apr 15ยท1 min readยท8 words

Xata: Open source Postgres platform with copy-on-write branching and scale-to-zero

Apr 15ยท1 min readยท10 words

Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log

Apr 15ยท1 min readยท9 words

Things you didn't know about indexes

Apr 15ยท1 min readยท6 words

Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters

Apr 15ยท1 min readยท6 words

My 14-Year Journey Away from ORMs - a Series of Insights Leading to Creation of a SQL-First Code Generator

Apr 15ยท1 min readยท19 words

I don't care that it's X times faster

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TruffleRuby 34: full Ruby 3.4 compatibility, up to 23% faster parsing, and a new Prism-based Ripper with 20x speedups

Apr 14ยท1 min readยท19 words

Object oriented programming in Ada

Apr 14ยท1 min readยท5 words

It's NOT OK to compare floating-points using epsilons

Apr 14ยท1 min readยท8 words

KeePassฯ‡ - a KeePassXC fork

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jemalloc 5.3.1 released

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Zig 0.16.0 Release Notes

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A collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools

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Embed You a ponyc for Great Good

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Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider

Apr 14ยท1 min readยท7 words

Rust should have stable tail calls

Apr 14ยท1 min readยท6 words

5NF and Database Design

Apr 14ยท1 min readยท4 words

No one can force me to have a secure website

Apr 14ยท1 min readยท10 words

Debloat your async Rust

Apr 13ยท1 min readยท4 words

Lean proved this program was correct; then I found a bug

Apr 13ยท1 min readยท11 words

Configuration flags are where software goes to rot

Apr 13ยท1 min readยท8 words

Little LaTeX Pearls

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What are you doing this week?

Apr 13ยท1 min readยท6 words

Did you notice the command error exit in the shell?

Apr 13ยท1 min readยท10 words

An undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code

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The Business Case for Vanilla JS

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48 hours ago lobste.rs surpassed 20,000 users

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Forgejo monthly report - March 2026

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LLM Reviews in cargo-crev

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What is a property?

Apr 12ยท1 min readยท4 words

The quest for the perfect 2D sprite pipeline

Apr 12ยท1 min readยท8 words

Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#

Apr 12ยท1 min readยท8 words

Surely there must be a way to make container secrets less dangerous?

Apr 12ยท1 min readยท12 words

No one owes you supply-chain security

Apr 11ยท1 min readยท6 words

Brocards for vulnerability triage

Apr 11ยท1 min readยท4 words

Writing design docs

Apr 11ยท1 min readยท3 words

High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain

Apr 11ยท1 min readยท12 words

Git fixup is magic (and Magit is too)

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SQLite 3.53.0

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I Just Want Simple S3

Apr 11ยท1 min readยท5 words

How Rust is susceptible to supply chain attacks and what we can do to mitigate the inevitable

Apr 11ยท1 min readยท17 words

20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job

Apr 11ยท1 min readยท9 words

With AI, you barely need a frontend framework

Apr 11ยท1 min readยท8 words

Advanced Mac Substitute

Apr 11ยท1 min readยท3 words

A bet on whether ML-KEM-768 or X25519 will break first

Apr 11ยท1 min readยท10 words

The difficulty of making sure your website is broken

Apr 10ยท1 min readยท9 words

Put your SSH keys in your TPM chip

Apr 10ยท1 min readยท8 words

Meet Kiki - an array language

Apr 10ยท1 min readยท6 words

Capsicum vs seccomp: Process Sandboxing

Apr 10ยท1 min readยท5 words

The Honest Climate Case for AI

Apr 10ยท1 min readยท6 words

Why Aren't We uv Yet?

Apr 10ยท1 min readยท5 words

Git Repositories as a Module System

Apr 10ยท1 min readยท6 words

Installing every* Firefox extension

Apr 10ยท1 min readยท4 words

Favorite programmer website?

Apr 10ยท1 min readยท3 words

What are you doing this weekend?

Apr 10ยท1 min readยท6 words

maki - the efficient coder (AI agent)

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Incremental compilation with LLVM

Apr 10ยท1 min readยท4 words

My Login Shell in Assembly

Apr 9ยท1 min readยท5 words

But what about K?

Apr 9ยท1 min readยท4 words

TIL that Helix and Typst are a match made in heaven

Apr 9ยท1 min readยท11 words

What are your programming "hunches" you haven't yet investigated?

Apr 9ยท1 min readยท9 words

Flatpak: Complete Sandbox Escape

Apr 9ยท1 min readยท4 words

Keychron-Keyboards-Hardware-Design: All the industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice

Apr 8ยท1 min readยท11 words

On Vinyl Cache and Varnish Cache

Apr 8ยท1 min readยท6 words

Full Text Search with IndexedDB

Apr 8ยท1 min readยท5 words

Applying "Programming Without Pointers" to an mbox indexer using Zig

Apr 8ยท1 min readยท10 words

Nix security advisory: Privilege escalation via symlink following during FOD output registration

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท12 words

All of the String types

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท5 words

Blackholing My Email

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท3 words

Assessing Claude Mythos Previewโ€™s cybersecurity capabilities

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท6 words

The Great Nix Flake Check

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท5 words

Two Years of Valkey

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท4 words

What text editor (cli or gui) are you using for writing non-code?

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท12 words

Plan 9 is a Uniquely Complete Operating System

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท8 words

Floating point from scratch: Hard Mode

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท6 words

The pinnacle of enshittification, or Large Language Models

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท8 words

The Seed Beneath the Snow

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท5 words

Multi-agentic Software Development is a Distributed Systems Problem (AGI can't save you)

Apr 7ยท1 min readยท12 words

The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026

Apr 6ยท1 min readยท8 words

Someone good at CSS help, my website design is dying

Apr 6ยท1 min readยท10 words

Using Discord on Plan 9

Apr 6ยท1 min readยท5 words

Size matters, even on very fast connections

Apr 6ยท1 min readยท7 words

Best Paper Awards in Computer Science over the past 30 years

Apr 6ยท1 min readยท11 words

Endian wars and anti-portability

Apr 6ยท1 min readยท4 words

unnix: Reproducible Nix environments without installing Nix

Apr 5ยท1 min readยท7 words

neomd: A minimal email TUI where you read with Markdown and write in Neovim

Apr 5ยท1 min readยท14 words

Stamp It! All Programs Must Report Their Version

Apr 5ยท1 min readยท8 words

Roogle: A Rust API search engine

Apr 5ยท1 min readยท6 words

Writing Lisp is AI Resistant and I'm Sad โ€” Dan's Musings

Apr 5ยท1 min readยท11 words

If you thought the speed of writing code was your problem - you have bigger problems

Apr 5ยท1 min readยท16 words

setting up the atkey.pro usb fingerprint reader in linux

Apr 5ยท1 min readยท9 words

Value numbering

Apr 4ยท1 min readยท2 words

The nvim-treesitter repository was archived

Apr 4ยท1 min readยท5 words

What kind of productivity tools do you use, if any?

Apr 4ยท1 min readยท10 words

Where can I find the old internet?

Apr 4ยท1 min readยท7 words

Why Lean?

Apr 4ยท1 min readยท2 words

The Feature That Has Never Worked ยท A broken auto-live poller, and what perceived urgency does to Claude Code

Apr 4ยท1 min readยท19 words

Your code is worthless

Apr 4ยท1 min readยท4 words

Why Nobody Can Verify What Booted Your Server

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท8 words

Making a Type Checker/LSP for Nix

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท6 words

Babyโ€™s Second Garbage Collector

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท4 words

Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท10 words

Slap: Functional Concatenative Language... with a Borrow Checker?

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท8 words

Lisette โ€” Rust syntax, Go runtime

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท6 words

What are you doing this weekend?

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท6 words

Idiomatic Lisp and the nbody benchmark

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท6 words

SSH certificates: the better SSH experience

Apr 3ยท1 min readยท6 words

I used AI. It worked. I hated it

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท8 words

landdown - Simple sandboxing for shell scripts

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท7 words

Activating Two Trap Cards at Once, or: A Gentle Response to the Popularity of Vibecoding

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท15 words

Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท12 words

pGenie โ€“ SQL-first code generator for PostgreSQL (Haskell, Rust, Java)

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท10 words

Running out of Disk Space in Production

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท7 words

Packaging 128 languages with Nix

Apr 2ยท1 min readยท5 words

Timesliced reservoir sampling: a new(?) algorithm for profilers

Apr 1ยท1 min readยท8 words

Linear types proposal for Hare

Apr 1ยท1 min readยท5 words

SQLite DB: simple, in-process, reliable, fast (2024)

Apr 1ยท1 min readยท7 words

CSS or BS?

Apr 1ยท1 min readยท3 words

Reading leaked Claude Code source code

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท6 words

plakar + openbsd

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท3 words

Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 1 2.95.0 has been released

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท8 words

your hex editor should color-code bytes

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท6 words

Software You Can Love 2026 tickets are on sale

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท9 words

The Subprime Technical Debt Crisis

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท5 words

Data Indexing in Golang

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท4 words

Supply Chain Attack on Axios

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท5 words

Why have supply chain attacks become a near daily occurrence ?

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท11 words

Claude finds RCE in Vim and Emacs

Mar 31ยท1 min readยท7 words

Rust's next-generation trait solver

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท4 words

Joins are NOT Expensive

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท4 words

Your job isn't programming

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท4 words

NumPy as Synth Engine

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท4 words

Working software runs locally

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท4 words

Okapi, or โ€œWhat if ripgrep Could Edit?โ€

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท7 words

The Steam Controller D0ggle Adventure

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท5 words

AI Agents Could Make Free Software Matter Again

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท8 words

Free, native RISC-V (RV64GC) CI on GitHub

Mar 30ยท1 min readยท7 words

C++26 is done! โ€” Trip report: March 2026 ISO C++ standards meeting (London Croydon, UK)

Mar 29ยท1 min readยท15 words

Who's hiring? Q2 2026

Mar 29ยท1 min readยท4 words

Neovim 0.12.0

Mar 29ยท1 min readยท2 words

The Cognitive Dark Forest

Mar 29ยท1 min readยท4 words

Introduction to the PineTime Pro

Mar 29ยท1 min readยท5 words

What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames

Mar 29ยท1 min readยท7 words

heerich.js - A tiny engine for 3D voxel scenes rendered to SVG

Mar 29ยท1 min readยท12 words

libeatmydata - disable fsync and SAVE

Mar 29ยท1 min readยท6 words

AI Hot Takes From A Platform Engineer / SRE - Alienchow

Mar 29ยท1 min readยท11 words

6o6 v1.1: Faster 6502-on-6502 virtualization for a C64/Apple II Apple-1 emulator

Mar 29ยท1 min readยท11 words

Legacy PC design misery

Mar 29ยท1 min readยท4 words

BubbleWrap your dev env and agents

Mar 28ยท1 min readยท6 words

Linux, finally for everyone

Mar 28ยท1 min readยท4 words

Translating non-trivial codebases with Claude

Mar 28ยท1 min readยท5 words

OpenTTD for Windows NT RISC

Mar 28ยท1 min readยท5 words

Building a guitar trainer with embedded Rust

Mar 28ยท1 min readยท7 words

Which Programming Language Is Best for Claude Code?

Mar 27ยท1 min readยท8 words

Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD

Mar 27ยท1 min readยท4 words

The Comforting Lie Of SHA Pinning

Mar 27ยท1 min readยท6 words

Pondering Effects

Mar 27ยท1 min readยท2 words

Tailscaleโ€™d Into Homelabbing

Mar 27ยท1 min readยท3 words

immich vs ente photos - the photo backup showdown

Mar 27ยท1 min readยท9 words

Scaling a Monolith to 1M LOC: 113 Pragmatic Lessons from Tech Lead to CTO

Mar 27ยท1 min readยท14 words

IP addresses through 2025

Mar 27ยท1 min readยท4 words

ssereload(1) introduction

Mar 26ยท1 min readยท2 words

EYG is now open source

Mar 26ยท1 min readยท5 words

ROCm 7.1.1: you can (not) build

Mar 26ยท1 min readยท6 words

When Vectorized Arrays Aren't Enough

Mar 26ยท1 min readยท5 words

Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code

Mar 26ยท1 min readยท8 words

Lines of code are useful

Mar 26ยท1 min readยท5 words

Electric Motorcycles are a Security Nightmare

Mar 26ยท1 min readยท6 words

vim-classic: Long-term maintenance of Vim 8.x

Mar 25ยท1 min readยท6 words

Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)

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Which Design Doc Did a Human Write?

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Mojo's not (yet) Python

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"Disregard that!" attacks

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Announcing Lix 2.95 โ€œKakigลriโ€

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Introducing ipxlat: a stateless IPv4/IPv6 translation device

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Magic Link Pitfalls

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"๏ทฝ" U+FDFD: ARABIC LIGATURE BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN AR-RAHEEM (Unicode Character)

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Adding structured concurrency to JavaScript

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Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide

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Hegel, a universal property-based testing protocol and family of PBT libraries

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Inside Ohm's PEG-to-Wasm compiler

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Debunking zswap and zram myths

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The Mouse Programming Language on CP/M

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RocksDB development finds a CPU bug

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Playbit runtime

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TLA+ mental models

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Rewriting a 20-year-old Python library

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Generators in lone lisp

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Semi-retirement, or, really, changing my relationship with the BSDs

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An Incoherent Rust

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Gram 1.1.0 released

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Gren 26.03: Parser improvements

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Native Instant Space Switching on MacOS

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Whistler: Live eBPF Programming from the Common Lisp REPL

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Is Local the Future of AI?

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The diminished art of coding

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Let's see Paul Allen's SIMD CSV parser

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A Case Against Currying

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My home network observes bedtime with OpenBSD and pf

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What if I stored data in my mouse

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ACME device attestation, smallstep and pkcs11: attezt

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Predicting home electricity usage based on historical patterns in Home Assistant

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Pigeon's Device

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Solod: Go can be a better C

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Why craft-lovers are losing their craft

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Is simple actually good?

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Unix philosophy is dead! Long live... something else?

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What creative technical outlets of yours have been ruined by generative AI?

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Adding Live Reload to a Static Site Generator Written in Go

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Related UI elements should not appear unrelated

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Lobsters Interview with Internet_Jannitor

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What we heard about Rust's challenges, and how we can address them

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Fedora Asahi Remix 43 is now available

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Atuin v18.13 โ€“ better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell

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Video Conferencing with Durable Streams

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To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head (2025)

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What Languages is Arthur Whitney Style Code Possible in?

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Getting Ziggy With It โ€“ Re: Factor

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Root from the parking lot: OpenWRT XSS through SSID scanning (CVE-2026-32721)

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OpenAI to Acquire Astral

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AI's impact on mathematics is analogous to the car's impact on cities

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Modular Monolith: dependencies and communication between Modules

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The Shape of Inequalities

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No Semicolons Needed

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Go Home, Windows EXE, You're Drunk

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BEAM Metrics in ClickHouse

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Seeing types where others don't

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AI - Assassinating Intelligence

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The Most Important Software Innovations

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The Paxos algorithm, when presented in plain English, is very simple (2021)

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Introducing postmarketOS Duranium: a more reliable postmarketOS

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A sufficiently detailed spec is code

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syntaqlite: high-fidelity devtools that SQLite deserves

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yes, all longest regex matches in linear time is possible

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The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved

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typenix: Full typing for Nix based on TypeScript

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The Gemini Protocol in 2026

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Free airport ride exchange platform

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Gleam v1.15.0 released

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Reviewing large changes with Jujutsu

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What are you doing this week?

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Try not to get scammed while looking for work

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Anthropic and The Authoritarian Ethic

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Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager

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The Optimization Ladder

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Gothub is live

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Summary - Rust Project Perspectives on AI

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tree-style invite systems reduce AI slop

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Lies I was Told About Collaborative Editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs

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Sunsetting Jazzband

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Humanities in the Machine

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Thoughts on generative A.I

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Why Mathematica does not simplify Sinh[ArcCosh[x]]

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The Compose key is magic

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A Guide to vim.pack (Neovim built-in plugin manager)

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Torturing rustc by Emulating HKTs, Causing an Inductive Cycle and Borking the Compiler

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Libadwaita 1.9

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An ode to bzip

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I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me

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Awash in revisionist histories about Apple's web efforts, a look at the evidence

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XML is a cheap DSL

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Reinventing Python's AsyncIO

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Windows 11 after two decades of macOS: okay, but also awful

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How to use storytelling to fit inline assembly into Rust

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Computing in freedom with GNU Emacs

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How to make your own static site generator

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How Many Times Can a DVDยฑRW Be Rewritten?

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Guix System - One Month Later

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How do you manage SSH keys?

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On Making

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Dreaming of a ten-year computer

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Lowdown Manpage Support

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Parametricity, or Comptime is Bonkers

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Lobsters Interview with ngoldbaum

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On The Need For Understanding

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My PostgreSQL database got nuked lol

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A fully snapshotable Wasm interpreter

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Full-Source Binary Seed Bootstrap of the Guix System (2023)

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Why should we have user age tracking in Operating Systems and websites?

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SQLite WAL-reset database corruption bug

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Code reviews do find bugs

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Madblog: Turn a Markdown folder into a federated blog

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Too Much Color

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EVi, a hard-fork of Vim

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Do the Illegible

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Ghostty 1.3.0

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Price-Checking Zerocopy's Zero Cost Abstractions

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seccomp โ€” Unsafe at any speed (2022)

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Production query plans without production data

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Returning To Rails in 2026

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AI will fuck you up if youโ€™re not on board

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What are you doing this week?

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Thinnings: Sublist Witnesses and de Bruijn Index Shift Clumping

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WebPKI and You

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z80-sans: OpenType font that disassembles Z80 instructions

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Blocking HTTP1.1

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GNU and the AI reimplementations

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Lightweight protocol to assert authorship of content and vouch for humanity of others

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CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior, synced using git

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Primitive proposal for human-interface improvement on Lobste.rs

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MuJS - lightweight Javascript interpreter designed for embedding in other software

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Nix is a lie, and thatโ€™s ok

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Usage Specification

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Pushing and Pulling: Three Reactivity Algorithms

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How Apple Used to Design Its Laptops for Repairability

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The Internals of PostgreSQL

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The Internals of PostgreSQL

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The first AI agent worm is months away, if that

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Some Words on WigglyPaint

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Some Words on WigglyPaint

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Some Words on WigglyPaint

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Some Words on WigglyPaint

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Some Words on WigglyPaint

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I'm not consulting an LLM

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SPA vs. Hypermedia: Real-World Performance Under Load

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jank is off to a great start in 2026

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Why Go Can't Try

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Ambiguity in C

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Mozilla is working on a big Firefox redesign, here is what it looks like

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A new chapter for the Nix language, courtesy of WebAssembly

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Message Passing Is Shared Mutable State

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telemetry helps. you still get to turn it off

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New major release of devenv

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GPL upgrades via section 14 proxy delegation

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Just Use Postgres

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A grand vision for Rust

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Introducing wgsl-rs

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You Bought Zuckโ€™s Ray-Bans. Now Someone in Nairobi Is Watching You Poop

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jj v0.39.0 released

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Pocket ID: Easy Passkey Authentication

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Au revoir, Eleventy

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Smalltalkโ€™s Browser: Unbeatable, Yet Not Enough

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What alternatives exist for Anonymous Github?

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RTL: WTF: Read the web like Right-to-Left readers do

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Never snooze a future

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California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS

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The Markless Document Markup Standard

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Four months of Ruby Central moving Ruby backward

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Rust zero-cost abstractions vs. SIMD

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Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

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Deprecate confusing APIs like โ€œos.path.commonprefix()โ€

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When AI Writes the World's Software, Who Verifies It?

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US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material

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I Put a Full JVM Inside a Browser Tab

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Evolving Typst

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The two kinds of error

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You can't always fix it

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Quantifying the Swiss marriage tax

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Packaging a Gleam app into a single executable

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Gram 1.0 released

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JSON Documents Performance, Storage and Search: MongoDB vs PostgreSQL

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libxml2 Enterprise Edition (AGPL, from the previous maintainer)

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Building a Quake PC

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What are you doing this week?

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GRAM: A Zed fork without all the AI

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xuv: X11 user daemon to automatically run commands triggered by user specified events

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Espanso - an open-source, cross-platform text expander

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qman: A more modern man page viewer for our terminals

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tsink - Embedded Time-Series Database for Rust

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Fooling Go's X.509 Certificate Verification

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Supercharge Rust functions with implicit arguments using CGP v0.7.0

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The real cost of random I/O

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Blogatto - A Gleam framework for building static blogs

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The 64-bit Hurd has landed in Guix

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The Enshittificator

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You can use newline characters in URLs

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Custom Data Structures in E-Graphs

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fast-servers: an interesting pattern

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Yes, and

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Package Managers ร  la Carte: A Formal Model of Dependency Resolution

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An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail

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Stop Putting Secrets in .env Files

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Please stop using passkeys for encrypting user data

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An update on SVG in GTK

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FIPS: Free Internetworking Peering System

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Jails for NetBSD

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What are you doing this weekend?

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Mothlamp Problems

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Accidentally disabling SSH access via scp

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Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp 1st-person game (2017)

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How my side project got banned from the internet

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OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation

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Sliced by Goโ€™s Slices

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snakes.run: rendering 100M pixels a second over ssh

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Can LLMs SAT?

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BuildKit: Docker's hidden gem that can build almost anything

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Long Range E-Bike

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What interesting (and smaller) conferences are there in 2026?

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Porting Doom to a 20-year-old VoIP phone

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Fake Job Interviews Are Installing Backdoors on Developer Machines

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Windows 11 Notepad to support markdown

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Tests Are The New Moat

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Your system is fine. Your users aren't

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ansigpt: c89 implementation of microgpt

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RFC 406i - The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS)

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Charm v2: Major releases for Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles for terminal UIs in Go

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โ€œJust a little detail that wouldnโ€™t sell anythingโ€

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Can agentic coding raise the quality bar?

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Reducing the size of Go binaries by up to 77%

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How I got Claude to teach me dbt

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Desk Setup: From Multi-Monitor to Single Screen with Virtual Desktops

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Permacomputing

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C Enum Sizes; or, How MSVC Ignores The Standard Once Again

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Binding port 0 to avoid port collisions

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Disappointing phones

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Using Haskell's 'newtype' in C

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You don't need free lists

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Cursed engineering: jumping randomly through CSV files without hurting yourself

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Forgejo, AGit, and Pull Request Templates

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Fast starting Clojure runtime built with GraalVM native-image + Crema

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jit: A header-only, cross-platform JIT compiler library in C. Targets x86-32, x86-64, ARM32 and ARM64

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codespelunker - CLI code search tool that understands code structure and ranks results by relevance. No indexing required

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confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters

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The Tears of Donald Knuth

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Read Locks Are Not Your Friends

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Drowse: Nix dynamic derivations made easy

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You are not left behind

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Proposal: add "AI generated" as a flag reason

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cl-kawa: A Turducken of Programming Languages

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Fix your tools

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lobste.rs migrates from MariaDB to SQLite

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MeshTNC is a tool for turning consumer grade LoRa radios into KISS TNC compatible packet radio modems

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ajail: a basic jail for programs you don't completely trust

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joinirc.at: Link to your IRC server on any client to onboard new users

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A Beginnerโ€™s Guide to Split Keyboards

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Lobsters Interview with steveklabnik

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Brat, a parallel TAP testing harness for the POSIX shell

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eBPF the Hard Way

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Django ORM Standaloneโฝยนโพ: Querying an existing database

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Your Personal Blog Should Have Comments

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Lindenmayer Systems

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Hold on to Your Hardware

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Every app you've built is an ETL pipeline (you just didn't call it that)

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Resurrecting _why's Dream

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Choosing a Language Based on its Syntax?

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Using the Browserโ€™s <canvas> for Data Compression

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C++26: std::is_within_lifetime

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how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds

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Ditching Discord

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Bruteforcing the Bitwarden master password I forgor

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AVX2 is slower than SSE2-4.x under Windows ARM emulation

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What's cooking on SourceHut? Q1 2026

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The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out

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LeBron James Is President โ€“ Exploiting LLMs via "Alignment" Context Injection

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Are We Becoming Architects or Butlers to LLMs?

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One page of async Rust

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Terminals should generate the 256-color palette

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Babashka 1.12.215: Revenge of the TUIs

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How a single typo led to RCE in Firefox

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Undo in Vi and its successors

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The Next Version of Curling IO

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Fast sorting, branchless by design

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The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem

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An AI Called Winter: Neurosymbolic Computation or Illusion?

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Poor Deming never stood a chance

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Let's practice! (bsd.rd)

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Browse code by meaning

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TIL: Docker log rotation

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Carbon Dysphoria

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Please consider tagging a vibecoding griefpost or hypepost as a rant

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What are you doing this week?

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A relationship between the Collatz conjecture and the Fibonacci numbers

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E2EE, the be all and end all of chat?

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AI is slowly munching away my passion

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A Single Reason To Not Vibe Code

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Rendering the Visible Spectrum

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How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate

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How To Add DRM To Your Backend (easy) [2026 WORKING]

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Zig landed io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations

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Zig landed io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations

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Arborium is AI slopware and should not be trusted

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Windows NT Design Workbook (1990)

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uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

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Leaning Into the Coding Interview: Lean 4 vs Dafny cage-match

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New repository settings for configuring pull request access - GitHub Changelog

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I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers

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A programmer's loss of identity

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Understanding the Go Runtime: The Bootstrap

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Supercazzola - Generate spam for web scrapers

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Nixtamal 1.0.0 released

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A Deep Dive into Apple's .car File Format

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microgpt

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The 12-Factor App - 15 Years later. Does it Still Hold Up in 2026?

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moss-kernel: Rust Linux-compatible kernel

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Hare 0.26.0 released

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What are you doing this weekend?

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Google might think your Website is down

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I Improved 15 LLMs at Coding in One Afternoon. Only the Harness Changed

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.plan files (2020)

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Allocators from C to Zig

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Workledger - An offline first engineering notebook

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Request for sources: Discord alternatives

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Inspecting the Source of Go Modules

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CSS Clicker

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Proof-oriented Programming in F*

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Reports of Telnetโ€™s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

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Majutsu, Magit for jujutsu

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Webmentions with batteries included

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Forwardly-evaluated build systems

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The AI Vampire

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Hope Is Not a Security Strategy: Why Secure-by-Default Beats Hardening

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Hylo: A Systems Programming Language All in on Value Semantics and Generic Programming

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cysqlite - a new sqlite driver

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Go 1.26 is released

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The Missing GitHub Status Page

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I Wrote a Scheme in 2025

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postmarketOS at FOSDEM 2026 + Hackathon

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How I Cut My Google Search Dependence in Half

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Fine, I'll Try AI

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Can my SPARC server host a website?

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Better Python tests with inline-snapshot

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Proposal: Add Hotness -.25 to Vibe Coding

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Discord Launches Teen-by-Default Settings Globally

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Trying out Thunderbird Appointment While I Patiently Wait For An Invite

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Computers can be understood

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Algorithmically Finding the Longest Line of Sight on Earth

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You Are Here

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The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)

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I Am Happier Writing Code by Hand

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Rebuilding my home network with VLANs and 10Gbps

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Beta release: Predicated Recursive Descent for Rust

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Testing can be fun, actually

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Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing

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Beating an old, but not dead horse: what to do with the KDE Oxygen and Air themes?

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Implementing Auto Tiling With Just 5 Tiles

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The source code was the moat. But not anymore

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vouch: a contributor trust management system based on explicit vouches to participate

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Adventures in Guix Packaging

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Game Boy Advance d-pad capacitor measurements

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Beyond agentic coding

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A Horrible Conclusion

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Flirt: The Native Backend

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Bob Beck (OpenBSD) on why vi should stay vi (2006)

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Programming is Dead: The Future of Software Engineering

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What are you doing this weekend?

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How much "boilerplate tax" different languages have: a 400M LOC analysis

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Text classification with Python 3.14's zstd module

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Tactical tornado is the new default

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nix-run: run nix derivations without nix3 or flakes

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No, Really, Bash Is Not Enough: Why Large-Scale CI Needs an Orchestrator

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On the Promises of 'High-Assurance' Cryptography

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(Un)portable defer in C

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GitHub Actions Is Slowly Killing Your Engineering Team

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We are QA Engineers now

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FOSDEM 26 - My Hallway Track Takeaways

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On craft and AI

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Slint 1.15 Released

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Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments

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