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CachyOS June 2026 Release
Hyprland Noctalia, DNS-over-QUIC, GCC Branch Prediction
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Building Principia for Windows XP
Back in the day when Principia originally released for Windows in 2014, the game would run on versions as far back as Windows XP. Given that Principia 1.4 was released while Windows XP still had mainstream support, this of course made sense at the time, and there was no real reason not to support it given that the…
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What happens when you run a CUDA kernel?
Tracing one vector-add kernel from nvcc all the way down to the warps that execute it.
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NixOS 26.05
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.
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Rebuilding the Computer Room
We traded the physical boundaries of dedicated rooms for the convenience of our always-on digital lives -- but recently I've been building those walls back up.
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Sandia National Labs SA3000 8085 CPU
Back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Sandia National Laboratory (in Albuquerque NM USA) began building the capacity to design, fab, and test IC’s at scale (packaging was handled by Fairchild and Allied Signal). Why would a National Laboratory need the capacity to do this? To provide components that were not…
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Pollen tried to remove my article and Google is assisting with it
In 2022, I wrote about the damning fall of events tech company Pollen. The short of it: Pollen seemed to have pulled off the improbable feat of building a business in the notoriously low margin industry of events, surviving Covid-19, and building a solid software engineering organization. In April
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My favorite keyboards
When I started using computers, we had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum at home and a nano-reseau of Thomson MO5 s at elementary school. I distinctly remember how unpleasant it was to type with them. These must have been the worst keyboards I ever used [1] . Ever since, I have paid close attention to the keyboards I use. Here…
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Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech
Lots of US states, European countries, and Australia have introduced "age verification" regulations. They present it as the classic "save the children" talking ...
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HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88
How hiring is becoming a luck filter.
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Ante: A new way to blend borrow checking and reference counting
Ante has taken the first step towards something we all thought was impossible: blending reference counting and borrow checking without run-time crashes. 0
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The cost YAGNI was never about
If you think YAGNI is about saving effort, cheap generation should retire it. It doesn't. Here's why.
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GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks
Among models given nothing but a prompt, the best open-weight option beat Claude Opus 4.8.
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Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
Behold: the Guru of GNU ! (Photo by Habib Mhenni, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.) True enlightment only comes from a truly free computi...
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I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
Welcome to my personal blog! I use it to share what I'm currently learning or thinking about, usually on topics related to technology, business, and health.
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Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing
Alt title: The reports of tokenmaxxing’s death are greatly exaggerated.
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Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI
For those of you who don’t know, when I’m not writing novels, I spend my days as a software engineer, writing code. The software industry these days relies heavily on artificial intelligence. Because it has studied trillions of lines of publicly accessible source code, because code solves problems with testable right…
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Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor
The Space Shuttle's five 1 general-purpose computers played a critical role in each flight: controlling the engines, monitoring thousands o...
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Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)
At WWDC 2025, Apple announced macOS 26 Tahoe. One of the new features in macOS Tahoe is a new disk image format: ASIF. Designed for use with virtual machines (its documentation lives under the Virtualization framework), ASIF takes a lot of inspiration from existing virtual disk formats. Practically, that means it’s…
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California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database
Withdrawing its opposition under behind-the-scenes pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawless threats from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the California legislature has agreed to fund and revise state law to authorize the upload of information about all driver’s licenses and ID cards issued by the…
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EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
Civil rights activist Dr. Patrick Breyer warns of an unprecedented "double-attack" on secure messaging ahead of critical Friday and Monday EU meetings. Ahead of a highly critical weekend for digital civil rights in Europe, former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding th
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The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)
One keyboard bug three decades in the making
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The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications. While supporters continue to claim this bill protects minors online, its…
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DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded
Figuring out how it went missing.
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Building a custom octocopter from scratch with no prior hardware experience
Building a custom octocopter from scratch with an RL controller that sustains flight through motor failures. Follow the build log.
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The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams
There's a moment in the movie Good Will Hunting which perfectly summarizes all the problems with AI slop and online noise and infinite advice content. Sean (played by Robin Williams) is sitting next to Will (Matt Damon) on a bench in Boston Public Garden. I live here, so I know it well. The area
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I built a 10 inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions
I built a 10-inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions and I had a lot of fun doing it. I want to share my build in this post.
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WAL-RUS: a Rust Rewrite of WAL-G for PostgreSQL Backups
How we built WAL-RUS, an open-source Rust-based Postgres backup tool that reduces virtual memory usage by over 70% compared to WAL-G while maintaining full compatibility.
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Choosing a Public DNS Resolver
Compare 30 global public DNS resolvers by privacy, filtering, DNSSEC, DoH, DoT, DoQ, IPv6, and jurisdiction, and benchmark DoH speed from your browser.