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Work at the Mill: The story of Digital Equipment Corporation
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Your AI can’t see gorillas
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Microsoft releases DocumentDB (NoSQL atop Postgres) under MIT license
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A catalog of ways to generate SSA
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Frontier AI systems have surpassed the self-replicating red line
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How about trailing commas in SQL?**
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Solving the ABA Problem in Rust with Tagged Pointers
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Feature Flags vs Configuration Options (2020)
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Writing git extensions in Perl
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GameFontLibrary | Video Game Fonts & Typography Database
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Persistent packages on Steam Deck using Nix
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Comparing Two Verilog CPU Implementations using EBMC
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Launching auxcord.org - Let friends queue their music at your party
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We Replaced Our React Frontend with Go and WebAssembly - Dagger
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Introduction to Operating System Abstractions using Plan 9
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Anansi-tags (now in NodeJS!)
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How Copyover MUD Servers Worked
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Some terminal frustrations
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Elementary Functions and NOT Following the IEEE 754 Floating-Point Standard (2020)
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The Ciao Prolog System (Prolog implementation targeting WASM)
While searching around this past weekend to see what is targeting wasm, I ran into this implementation of prolog. I’ve always found the documentation/error handling of implementations like SWI Prolog to be difficult for beginners but the playground instance this language offers has some nice usability and even offers to fix your queries if you have basic syntax errors, which is quite nice as I almost always forget the ending “ .” that’s requi ... ⌘ Read more
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You Should Use /tmp/ More
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Published a series of Node.js Secure Coding books
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3D Gaussian Splatting WebGL viewer
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pkarr: Public Key Addressable Resource Records (sovereign TLDs)
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How to disaggregate a log replication protocol
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Sandboxing Perl with WebAssembly
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Concerns with the proposed addition of fibers to C++ 26
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PeerAuth
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Yucan UI Engine
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What about k?**
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Stand Alone Complex: (AI) Assistants should be individuals, not puppets
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Feature Demo of Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering
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Computing Tricky Probabilities
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I blog with raw txt
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What are you doing this week?**
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share!

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HarmonyOS: "Deep Blue Insight" is the most unique new security ecology in 2024
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ConnectX-5 Firmware tooling and initial analysis
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sqlite-wasm-http
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The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada
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Naming sum types is often hard
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residential networking over telephone
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Obsidian Publish Directory Enumeration
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Linux Patches Adjust AC Plug/Unplug Behavior During s2idle To Match Windows
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How Does Ada's Memory Safety Compare Against Rust?**
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WTF are Popcorn Tasks?**
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EG Public Alpha Announcement: Developer experience focused ci/cd**
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Rostra - a p2p (or rather f2f) social network
I’m working in my spare time on a p2p social network protocol/platform/app.

You can conveniently check the (fully functional) demo at https://rostra.me

If you’re interested and would like to interact, please post on Rostra Github Discussions.

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postmarketOS-powered Kubernetes cluster
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Birdie - Snapshot Testing
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RxDB - The Firestore Alternative That Can Sync with Your Own Backend
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UK orders Apple to give it access to encrypted cloud data
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strace can slow traced processes 400x worst case
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TypeScript: the satisfies operator
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blip: A tool for seeing your Internet latency
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Stock Portfolio Monitor for ESP32 (T-Display S3)
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Writing a Simple Driver in Rust
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Pragmatic ZIO - Lachezar Yankov, Scala Stockholm Winter Meetup
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baffled by generational garbage collection — wingolog
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Building a personal, private AI computer on a budget
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here is how I've configure OpenBSD and FreeBSD for an IPv6 Wifi
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Don't "optimize" conditional moves in shaders with mix()+step()
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Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?**
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RetroFab: Playable 3D simulations of vintage electronic games
RetroFab is a new online collection of vintage electronic game simulations that can be played in the browser.
I am now releasing in to early access the first (of hopefully many) simulations in this collection.

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The Visible Zorker
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FOSDEM 2025 - How we are defending Software Freedom against Apple at the EU's highest court
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Qalculate hacks
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LRGrep: Selecting Error Messages for LR parsers
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VanSpoof - Prototype 1 - Hardware
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C SBOMs, and how pkgconf can solve this problem
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Less-Than Estimation
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Fully Dynamically Linked Rust Binary: An Experiment
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Technology Predictions, What's Next?**
Many from 6 years ago seem prescient: https://lobste.rs/s/p9zihz/technology\_predictions\_what\_s\_next

Predictions are hard:

- The Beatles’ Decca audition
- There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share

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A Simple Serialization System
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From hours to 360ms: over-engineering a puzzle solution
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Consuming the jetstream atproto firehose correctly
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AI exploits a gamebreaking bug in Trackmania
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Be Skeptical of All Code - Not Just the Funny Stuff
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Erika 10
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We are destroying software
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Synctrain: a rethought iOS client for Syncthing
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Carbon is not a programming language (sort of)
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Three Years of Ephemeral NixOS: My Experience Resetting Root on Every Boot
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A tale of several distros joining forces for a common goal: reproducible builds
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Trivalent: A hardened chromium for desktop Linux inspired by Vanadium
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The case for sans-io
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Lume, an MIT-licensed CLI to virtualize macOS environments
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No-Libc Zig Now Outperforms Glibc Zig
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Docker Bake is Now Generally Available
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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
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getaddrinfo sucks. everything else is much worse
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Secure cookie library in Go from scratch
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Cloudflare incident on February 6, 2025
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A Brief History of Code Signing at Mozilla
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Fun Friday: what's the weirdest automation you've ever made?**
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polysubml-demo: A simple ML-like language with subtyping, polymorphism, higher rank types, and global type inference
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CODE beyond FAIR
FAIR principles are a set of guidelines aiming at simplifying the distribution of scientific data to enhance reuse and reproducibility. This article focuses on research software, which significantly differs from data through its living nature, and its relationship with free and open-source software. Based on the second French plan for Open Science, we provide a tiered roadmap to improve the state of research software, which is inclusive to all stakeholders in the research software ecosystem: sc ... ⌘ Read more
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LKML: Hector Martin: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove myself
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Gleam v1.8.0 released
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CPython tail-call interpreter merged for Python 3.14
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Refined: simple refinement types for Rust
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