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All my clients wanted a carousel, now it's an AI chatbot
Posts about SmolWeb, Gemini protocol and LowTech
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Lobbying
Have you tried to explain lobbying to a non American unfamiliar with the concept?
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The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
The internet made coordination cheap and gave us the Bazaar. Coding agents make code cheap and are giving us sprawling, idiosyncratic software.
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What category theory teaches us about dataframes
Every dataframe library ships with hundreds of operations. pandas alone has over 200 methods on a DataFrame. Is pivot different from melt? Is apply different from map? What about transform, agg, applymap, pipe? Some of these seem like the same operation wearing different hats. Others seem genuinely distinct. Without a…
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Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA
I've spent the last month adding features and improving performance in z486_MiSTer , mostly working through games from the first half of the 1990s. Looking a few years ahead brought me to another change I wanted to explore: the arrival of 3D graphics cards.
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A CVE Dispute
A few years years ago the curl project signed up and became a CNA. This means that we are masters of and can allocate our own CVE identifiers. For any security problems within our territory, it is we who decides if the issue should get a CVE or not. No more bogus CVEs. 57 CVEs … Continue reading a CVE dispute →
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It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360
I purchased a Matrix CoolRunner Rev D back in 2017. This little chip is called a glitcher and it’s a type of modchip. Its sole purpose, the reason it was designed, is to deliver a short pulse of energy (~ 100 nanoseconds) to an Xbox 360 Console.
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Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine
I built a scriptable 3D game engine for the Nintendo DS so you can write and run games directly on the console itself. Written in C using libnds , it compiles to a 100KB .nds ROM that runs at 60 FPS . Features a touch-based code editor on the bottom screen and real-time 3D rendering on the top screen. Ships with a…
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Unearthing my 1996 windowed OS in machine code for Am29000 homebrew computer
History of the development of my windowed operating system for 32-bit Am29000 processors when I was age 18.
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I made Zig compute 33M satellite positions in 3 seconds
Update: I've since added multithreading and pushed astroz to 326M propagations/sec. Read the follow-up → I've spent the past month optimizing SGP4 propagat...
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What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust
Righty-ho, I’m back from Rust Nation, and busily horrifying my teenage daughter with my (admittedly atrocious) attempts at doing an English accent 1 . It was a great trip with a lot of good conversations and some interesting observations. I am going to try to blog about some of them, starting with some thoughts…
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Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching
Java 17 introduced sealed classes, which allow you to explicitly list the allowed sub-types of an interface or base class. For example, here’s a toy example using a sealed interface and records (in…
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Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome
A papal adviser calls Peter Thiel a heretic after his secret Rome lectures on the Antichrist draw global attention and a Vatican rebuke
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Ape Coding [fiction]
Ape coding is the software development practice where a human developer deliberately hand-writes source code.
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The Closing of the Frontier
T he Anthropic Mythos announcement is the first time in my life I’ve felt truly poor. Maybe because I grew up on the internet and it was the one permissionless place where you could have leverage and a shot at uncapped exploration and ambition. That is now changing with the gap between models that are publicly…
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Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs
A practical workflow for running 4–8 parallel coding agents using Claude Code, tmux, and a Markdown-based feature design system.
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Enjoy Every Sandwich
this captivating subtitle I wrote really makes you want to read it, doesn’t it?!?
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Linux kernel security work
Lots of the CVE world seems to focus on “security bugs” but I’ve found that it is not all that well known exactly how the Linux kernel security process works. I gave a talk about this back in 2023 and at other conferences since then, attempting to explain how it works, but I also thought it would be good to explain…
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What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?
How TurboQuant compresses the KV cache without losing accuracy, and what that could mean for memory stocks
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Dystopian Surveillance Is Becoming a Reality
Apple recently announced an upcoming feature for their new Apple Watches called “Audio Intelligence,” which will always be listening to a...
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hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate
The macOS command-line tool hdiutil is used to manipulate disk images. From the WHAT'S NEW section of man hdiutil on the latest macOS 27 Golden Gate beta:
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The Zen of Parallel Programming
As I continue reading An Introduction to Parallel Programming, I cannot help but notice a connection between communication among processors, communication among human beings, and communication within the individual self....
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Towards trust in Emacs
A post by Eshel Yaron introducing the Emacs Trust Manager
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More Molly Guards
A blog about software craft and quality
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One Month Without AI
Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — actually all contributions I’ve had are translations and feature requests — but I wanted to...
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Corners Don't Look Like That: Regarding Screenspace Ambient Occlusion (2012)
Please, feel free to gather better data yourself and prove me wrong. If you do so I'll link to it!
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.gitignore Everything by Default
An opposite view on .gitignore files.
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It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)
In an industry that pressures developers to always be shipping side-projects, it can be helpful to be retrospective with the projects that don't make the cut
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