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Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again
On why bitmap fonts still carry more life than most default tech type.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,969 posts.
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Tailwind and slop apps
Tailwind is great. It's a quick way to style a webpage and offers incredible flexibility. The problem is, despite Tailwind being incredibly customisable I can instantly tell when a site is using Tailwind. It has a certain look and feel that is hard to shake. A few years ago this "look and feel" was fresh and classy…
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Someone needs to go to jail
A solution to the Epstein problem
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On Really Trying (2009)
What are the true limits to motivation?
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Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code
Last year I've fixed a bug in Linux kernel OHCI (USB 1.1) stack , which rendered my old printer unreliable: OHCI adds artificial delay of 1ms for each USB transfer of send-read pattern, while my very old, host-based printer expects very tight timings and constant latency, like some kind of CnC machine.
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My first year in sales as technical founder
Looking back at the last 12 months feels surreal. I have learned so much about selling, it's insane.
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The Warp Agent CLI
The Warp Agent is now available as a standalone CLI that you can use anywhere – Ghostty, iTerm 2, VS Code, built-in Windows and Mac Terminals – and provides a superior experience for developers who do heavy terminal workflows.
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Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server
A proof of concept demonstrating how to use the Hinge dating app as a C2.
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Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching
New study by Emanuela Campisi (University of Catania) and Anita Slominska and Asli Ozyurek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) reveals that Italian and Dutch adults adapt their hand gestures in remarkably similar ways when explaining new concepts to children.
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I reversed Tower of Fantasy's anti-cheat driver: a BYOVD toolkit never loaded
How four layers of authentication in a production anti-cheat driver still hand you a complete BYOVD toolkit
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It's cool to care (2025)
Caring deeply – about art, my friends, and shared experiences – has brought me so much joy.
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Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible
CU Boulder researchers have developed 3D-printable materials embedded with living bioluminescent algae that can produce sustained light.
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Sony Data Discman
Let's look at this little gizmo Sony produced in the early 1990s.
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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side
A blog about software craft and quality
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Malleable software = solid bases and custom code
In 2019 I bet on the no-code revolution. That bet aged so-so. Here is the new one.
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(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers
In the tradition started by Colin Percival and Thomas Ptacek, a set of “Cryptographic Right Answers” updated for the accelerated post-quantum transition timeline.
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Message Queues: A Simple Guide with Analogies (2024)
This guide explains message queues with analogies: databases, warehouses and post offices.
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DOS Memory Management
The memory management in DOS is simple, but that simplicity may be deceptive. There are several rather interesting pitfalls that programming documentation often does not mention.
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The lattice of sets of natural numbers is rich (2021)
$\newcommand\of{\subseteq}\newcommand\N{\mathbb{N}}\newcommand\R{\mathbb{R}}\def\<#1>{\left\langle#1\right\rangle}\newcommand\Z{\mathbb{Z}}\newcommand\Q{\mathbb{Q}}\newcommand\ltomega{{{<}…
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Squares in Squares
The following pictures show $n$ unit squares packed inside the smallest known square (of side length $s$). If a pictured packing has multiple numbers in its label above, the picture represents the largest; each smaller is represented by removing any square. For the $n ≤ 324$ not pictured, the trivial packing (with no…
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I built a pint-sized Macintosh
To kick off MARCHintosh, I built this tiny pint-sized Macintosh with a Raspberry Pi Pico: This is not my own doing—I just assembled the parts to run Matt Evans' Pico Micro Mac firmware on a Raspberry Pi Pico (with an RP2040). The version I built outputs to a 640x480 VGA display at 60 Hz, and allows you to plug in a…
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Dutch computer museums (2022)
Photos from three very different computer museums in the Netherlands
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"Inspector Dangerfuck", ANSI art comic from 1994
In 1994, a teenager wanted to be noticed in the ANSI art scene. So he created "Inspector Dangerfuck": a profane, stoned, gray-skinned cartoon detective.
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When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader
A write-up of a full shader debugging session to find out why my Voronoi Diagram shader was stuttering in one specific machine.
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Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24
I'll give a brief outline of how to enable HTTP/2 cleartext (h2c) in a Go API server when you are using Go 1.24 or newer. This is useful in Cloud Run environments, which handles TLS termination but can take advantage of HTTP/2 features.
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Sierra Raises $950M at $15B Valuation
We’re raising $950 million from new and existing investors, at a valuation of over $15 billion. We have never had such conviction in the opportunity for Sierra and our customers.
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US Immigration on the Easiest Setting
Having been through the US immigration process (I got my first work visa more than 25 years ago and became a citizen in 2022), it's obvious to me that Americans have no idea how weird and tortuous their immigration system is:
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How to pack ternary numbers in 8-bit bytes
Packing ternary numbers with efficient SIMD-friendly unpacking on binary computers