Articles by aragonite
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What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013) (cloudflare.com)

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Sears Modern Homes (wikipedia.org)

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LibreHardwareMonitor: FOSS monitor of temps, fan speeds, voltages, load & clocks (github.com/librehardwaremonitor)

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Bede Liu, pioneer in digital signal processing and beloved mentor, dies at 91 (princeton.edu)

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Dropping in on Gottfried Leibniz (2013) (stephenwolfram.com)

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Corpulence Index (wikipedia.org)

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Two-Letter Scrabble Words Visualized as Stem and Leaf Plot (2020) (gideongoldin.com)

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Desmos Notebook Example Gallery (desmos.com)

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Desmos 3D Graphing Calculator (desmos.com)

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Taleb: Time to Retire Standard Deviation (2014) (edge.org)

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The differential operator d/dx binds variables (2012) (hamkins.org)

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Snap, Crackle and Pop: Fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of position (wikipedia.org)

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Space travel under constant acceleration (wikipedia.org)

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"Visually math concepts which are easy to explain" (math.stackexchange.com)

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List of websites founded before 1995 (wikipedia.org)

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Nabokov's pale fire: the lost 'father of all hypertext demos'? (2011) (acm.org)

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The Redundancy of English (1951) [pdf] (medientheorie.com)

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Singing Telegram (wikipedia.org)

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Leibniz's Explanation of binary arithmetic (1703) (leibniz-translations.com)

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Windows and Linux: A Tale of Two Kernels (2004) [video] (youtube.com)

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Rocket Mail (wikipedia.org)

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How Node.js and V8 keep each other working (joyeecheung.github.io)

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The Little Book of Semaphores (2016) (greenteapress.com)

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Unix_history-Simple.svg (wikimedia.org)

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Reminiscences on the History of Time-Sharing (1983) (stanford.edu)

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Spork: A posix_spawn you can use as a fork (acm.org)

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A fork() in the road (2019) [pdf] (microsoft.com)

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Software Internals Book Club (eatonphil.com)

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Who is Marcus Rodriguez? [video] (youtube.com)

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Who invented file extensions in file names? (2023) (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

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"Mother of all Demos" (1968) (youtube.com)

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Jeffrey Snover on .NET and Windows: "Not a Happy Marriage" (xcancel.com)

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Why interaction is more powerful than algorithms (1997) [pdf] (lri.fr)

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The Art of Operating Systems (2019) (denninginstitute.com)

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The Foundations of LLMs, 1943-2026: A Curated Collection of Seminal Papers (github.com/joeduffy)

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Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)

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Performance • tldraw Docs (tldraw.dev)

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Larry Tesler: A Personal History of Modeless Text Editing and Cut/Copy-Paste (2012) (acm.org)

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Deriving the Y Combinator (2008) (jcoglan.com)

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On TypeScript's Flaws (2024) (zanlib.dev)

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WSLg: Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI (github.com/microsoft)

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View Transitions Toolkit (chrome.dev)

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Vitalik Buterin: My self-sovereign/local/private/secure LLM setup (vitalik.eth.limo)

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Binary Posters (github.com/corkami)

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Iterable Streams in Node.js 25.9.0 (nodejs.org)

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Iterable Streams in Node.js 25.9.0 (nodejs.org)

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Google C++ Style Guide (google.github.io)

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Using Haskell as My Shell (2021) (archive.org)

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Fast Properties in V8 (2017) (v8.dev)

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ast-grep: A CLI tool for code structural search, lint and rewriting (github.com/ast-grep)

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Playwright CLI (github.com/microsoft)

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Command Line Interface Guidelines (clig.dev)

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Offensive Windows IPC Internals 3: ALPC (Advanced Local Procedure Call) (csandker.io)

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Google Ngram Viewer Advanced Usage (books.google.com)

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How does Node.js load its built-in/native modules? (2021) (joyeecheung.github.io)

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Is Topic Modelling Obsolete? (languagetechnology.substack.com)

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Using Citations to Explore Academic Literature (inciteful.xyz)

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Everyone has a Chinese peptide dealer now (sfstandard.com)

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Corporate Memphis (wikipedia.org)

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Manhattan Population Explorer (manpopex.us)

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OpenAI Model Spec (model-spec.openai.com)

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The most-cited research papers of all time (nature.com)

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URLPattern is now Baseline Newly available (web.dev)

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Harvard FAS Cuts PhD Seats by More Than Half (thecrimson.com)

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Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (wikipedia.org)

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Electromagnetically Induced Acoustic Noise (wikipedia.org)

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EmuOS v1.0 (emupedia.net)

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UTM Parameters (wikipedia.org)

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What happens in Quirks Mode in web browsers? (2014) (jkorpela.fi)

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Link Relations (iana.org)

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Aaron Swartz: Providing APIs (2013) (wikisource.org)

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Checking if a JavaScript native function is monkey patched (2022) (mmazzarolo.com)

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Thunk (wikipedia.org)

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DWM Hacking (2007) [video] (youtube.com)

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Tagged Unions are quite sexy (2024) (ciesie.com)

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The Emacs dumper dispute (2016) (lwn.net)

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Therac-25 (wikipedia.org)

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Writing memory efficient C structs (tomscheers.github.io)

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Dinkus (wikipedia.org)

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The Hunt for the Fastest Zero (2020) (travisdowns.github.io)

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Explaining assembly by playing SHENZHEN I/O [video] (youtube.com)

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The De Man Case (2014) (newyorker.com)

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Staff and Line (wikipedia.org)

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pdfCropMargins – auto-detect and cut PDF margins for small-screen reading (github.com/abarker)

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Prince Rupert's Drop (wikipedia.org)

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Exploding Tree (wikipedia.org)

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Mickey Mousing (wikipedia.org)

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High Pressure Injection Injury (wikipedia.org)

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Project Cybersyn (wikipedia.org)

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Key Rollover (wikipedia.org)

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Hidden Champions (wikipedia.org)

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Slum: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor (open-slum.org)

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Plotting Prime Numbers (2021) (jaketae.github.io)

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Egyptian Fractions (2023) (surrey.ac.uk)

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Understanding Rate Control Modes (x264, x265, vpx) (2017) (slhck.info)

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Why on Earth do we have 29.97fps? (2021) (reddit.com)

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IPC: To Share Memory or to Send Messages [video] (youtube.com)

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TSMC Arizona sued for race and citizenship discrimination (tomshardware.com)

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The Drama Queen of Mathematics: Johann Bernoulli (reddit.com)

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What's the best phone to do crimes on? [audio] (searchengine.show)