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I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
Writing about software, systems, and the craft of building things.
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Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations
Wikipedia is the backbone of knowledge on the internet. Learn how the Wikimedia Foundation is safeguarding it under the UK Online Safety Act.
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OpenSSH Post-Quantum Cryptography
OpenSSH post quantum cryptography
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Faster substring search with SIMD in Zig
I've been learning a lot about low level programming languages lately, and for a long time there has been one thing that has interested me: SIMD (or 'single ins…
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Generic Containers in C: Safe Division Using Maybe
Martin Uecker, 2025-08-10 I discuss the implementation of type and bounds safe generic containers in C. Previously, I discussed a span type , bounds checking using arrays . and a a vector type . This time, I will discuss maybe inspired by Haskell. This type can used to return a value that may not exist, e.g. because…
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Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network
Finding and disabling the cellular modem for BlueLink in the Kona EV
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Optimizing my sleep around Claude usage limits
My experiment optimizing my sleep schedule around maximizing my Claude Pro subscription usage.
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Flock Now Using AI to Report to Police If Our Movement Patterns Are "Suspicious"
Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functions
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Compiling a Lisp: Lambda lifting
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I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid
Robots won't replace me, but another human probably will.
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1910: The year the modern world lost its mind
What one of my favorite history books about my favorite historical period—turn-of-the-century American—tells us about technology, anxiety, and human nature
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How Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development
How Boom Supersonic uses software to accelerate hardware development
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Zig's Lovely Syntax
It's a bit of a silly post, because syntax is the least interesting detail about the language, but, still, I can't stop thinking how Zig gets this detail just right for the class of curly-braced languages, and, well, now you'll have to think about that too.
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GPT-OSS vs. Qwen3 and a detailed look how things evolved since GPT-2
And How They Stack Up Against Qwen3
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Try and
Typically, try can be followed by three kinds of phrases: a noun phrase (1a), an infinitival verb phrase with to (1b), or a verb phrase with - ing (1c).
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Inside OS/2 (1987)
A 1987 technical introduction to OS/2, covering its architecture, multitasking capabilities, API, and kernel system services.
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MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System
Or: The Day My Toaster Started Taking Phone Calls
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Booting 5000 Erlangs on Ampere One 192-core
Underjord is an artisanal consultancy doing consulting in Elixir, Nerves with an accidental speciality in marketing and outreach. If you like the writing you should really try the pro version .
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LLMs aren't world models
I believe that language models aren’t world models. It’s a weak claim — I’m not saying they’re useless, or that we’re done milking them. It’s also a fuzzy-sounding claim — with its trillion weights, who can prove that there’s something an LLM isn't a model of? But I hope to make my claim clear and persuasive enough…
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The History of Windows XP
NT Vincit Omnia
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Writing simple tab-completions for Bash and Zsh
Shell tab-completions can be very handy, but setting them up is complicated by the fact that half your users would be using Bash-on-Linux, while the other half will be using Zsh-on-OSX, each of which has different tab-completion APIs. Furthermore, most users exploring an unfamiliar CLI tool using tab completion…
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GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it
A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble
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GPTs and Feeling Left Behind
Every time that I read some blog post about “coding with AI”, or how cool new models write entire libraries by themselves, I feel like I’m lagging behind, like I’m missing out on some big, useful tool, and my skills are about to become obsolete very soon.
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How I code with AI on a budget/free
A personal guide on using AI Code Prep GUI, Cline, and various free AI web interfaces like Gemini, Grok, Deepseek, and Poe for cost-effective coding and debugging.
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Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications
The Eye Security Research team has uncovered a new critical misconfiguration that exposed sensitive data at internal Microsoft applications.
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Debian 13 “Trixie”
After 2 years, 1 month, and 30 days of development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 13 (code name trixie ).
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A CT scanner reveals surprises inside the 386 processor's ceramic package
Intel released the 386 processor in 1985, the first 32-bit chip in the x86 line. This chip was packaged in a ceramic square with 132 gold-pl...
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The current state of LLM-driven development
I spent the past ~4 weeks trying out all the new and fancy AI tools for software development.
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A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union
In May 1991 a Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyev was sent into space. At the end of the year he was still circling around the Earth waiting for a spaceship to bring him back. He had left a Soviet Union that was still a superpower but would return to a world where there was no Soviet Union any more. The Soviet empire…