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Windows NT: Peeking into the Cradle
A review of "Showstopper!" by G. Pascal Zachary and my own reflections
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Storing data in pointers
Some notes on storing data in pointers and the impact of >48-bit virtual addresses
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Titled Tuesday Cheating
Fantastic Cheaters and Where to Find Them
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First Is the Worst: Nintendo's Color TV Game 6 and 15
If you told Yamauchi Fusajiro that the little playing card business he had just started would one day sell video game consoles, he would have no idea what yo...
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Linux being secure is a common misconception
Linux being secure is a common misconception in the security and privacy realm. Linux is thought to be secure primarily because of its source model, popular usage in servers, small userbase and confusion about its security features. This article is intended to debunk these misunderstandings by demonstrating the lack…
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Making a font
This month I decided to learn how to make a font to use in my comic hakum . Previously, I was drawing the text digitally with my pen tablet. The result was fine, but sometimes difficult to read(the text would grow and shrink often in one page). I didn't want to use an existing font, so I decided to make one based on…
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Emacs and the mouse: A modest defense of the rodent
A modest defense of the rodent So, Emacs and the mouse. This is an unexpectedly contentious topic, with discussions that end, at best, with careless dismissal. More often they turn into arguments with folks talking past one another. The advantages of using the mouse for common actions in Emacs are immediate and…
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Fun with DNS TXT Records
TXT Record Specification Primer # Reading through the RFC Using the Domain Name System To Store Arbitrary String Attributes to summarise the relevant part: Any printable ASCII character is permitted for the attribute name. More importantly, on the restrictions section Some DNS server implementations place limits on…
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Signal reflections in electronic circuits
What are "signal reflections", really? And do they matter in circuit design?
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The Curse of Docker
I'm heading to Las Vegas for re:invent soon, perhaps the most boring type of industry extravaganza there could be. In that spirit, I thought I would write something quick and oddly professional: I'm going to complain about Docker.
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The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation
Do unskilled people actually underestimate their incompetence?
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The largest number representable in 64 bits
A rewrite of this blog post with many new insights and updates appeared in Jan 2026
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Why 56k is the fastest dial up modem speed
10stripe is a collection of computer and technology information, providing answers to common questions and concerns.
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A DX7 USB Dongle
The amazing Rene Stange added USB Gadget (i.e. device) support to the Circle bare metal Raspberry Pi environment a while ago so I’ve now incorporated that into MiniDexed. This allows MiniDexe…
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The Bond villain compliance strategy
Jurisdictional gamesmanship is a common strategy for crypto businesses. Here is how it worked out for Binance and its CEO. Spoiler: poorly.
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Street Fighter II, subtile accurate animation (2021)
This article is the final part of a series about Street Fighter II and the CPS-1. It is recommended to read the previous entries before reading this one.
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Cash Cows
He was born, farmed, and died at Dishley, much like his father before him. But Robert Bakewell, unlike most people, caught the improving mentality, or attitude — the one thing all inventors, both then and now, have in common — which had him viewing everything around him in terms of its capacity for betterment. The…
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Q* Hypothesis: Enhancing Reasoning, Rewards, and Synthetic Data
Emergency special: The information we need to understand what Q* is was right in front of us, but the memes are more fun than reality.
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Some observations on the final text of the European Digital Identity framework
The final text of the update to the eIDAS regulation (establishing a framework for a European Digital Identity) has been agreed upon. In a last minute effort to improve the text, we wrote an open letter criticising the proposal on weakening the security of the web, and providing too few safeguards protecting users of…
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The bash book to rule them all
I ♥ to /bin/bash and last week I came around the one bash book to rule them all.
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"Useless Ruby sugar": Argument forwarding
Or, how the feature that allows to write less names might make the code more explicit.
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The Failed Commodification of Technical Work
The most talented data engineer I know, and my first manager, is a man that loves cooking. I mean, you might think you love cooking, but this guy loves cooking. The most excited text message I received this year was from him, proudly sharing the goddamn analytics on the heat distribution of chicken in his oven with…
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Demystifying Web Push Notifications
For my recent One Day Build: Expense Tracking project I wanted to enable notifications in a progressive web app. ChatGPT struggled to generate any good code for me, and I also struggled to find any minimal clear explanations online.
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Apple's Pro Display XDR takes Thunderbolt 3 to its limit
I like Thunderbolt a lot. Mostly because USB's land of optional features is a mess which makes choosing a cable/peripheral difficult. With thunderbolt you have a single number to get right. And then you are supposed to be golden. However the idyll with Intel's interface took a hit when I tried to make sense of Apple's…
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GIMP 3.0 has a release schedule
The team is targeting May 2024, but it's going to be tough, and here is why
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Interesting features of John Harrison's sea clocks
I recently got to see John Harrison's sea clocks at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. I recommend visiting if you get the chance. This post is about some of the interesting things I observed.
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About That OpenAI "Breakthrough"
Will OpenAI’s Q* change the world?