Articles by blenderob
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Notes on Incidents (seangoedecke.com)

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User level WireGuard for UDP based encryption and authentication (utcc.utoronto.ca)

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Your Clippy Config Should Be Stricter (emschwartz.me)

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Childhood Computing (susam.net)

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Which age-gates should be skill-gates and vice-versa? (shkspr.mobi)

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How to style a Hugo Atom feed with XSL (afranca.com.br)

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GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source (shkspr.mobi)

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Prompts are technical debt too (seangoedecke.com)

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Solod v0.1: Go ergonomics, practical stdlib, native C interop (antonz.org)

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What even is a pidfd anyway? (corsix.org)

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Not your Weights, Not your Brain (mercurialsolo.github.io)

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Programming in 2026: excitement, dread, and the coming wave (amontalenti.com)

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Store Tags After Payloads (scattered-thoughts.net)

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Vertically Aligning Roman Numerals in Code (shkspr.mobi)

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Three Inverse Laws of AI (susam.net)

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Ask HN: What's your favorite Emacs package?

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Porting Go's io package to C (antonz.org)

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Finding the right bottom hole paper (shkspr.mobi)

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Bit Savers (bitsavers.org)

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Adding "Log in with Mastodon" to Auth0 (shkspr.mobi)

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HN Skins: Read Hacker News in Style (github.com/susam)

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AWS suffered 'at least two outages' caused by AI tools, and now I'm convinced (tomsguide.com)

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AI Is a NAND Maximiser (shkspr.mobi)

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Mozilla Readability (github.com/mozilla)

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How to Make Living as an Artist (usindic.us)

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Three Inverse Laws of AI and Robotics (susam.net)

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Gadget Review: Epomaker TH87 ISO Mechanical Keyboard (shkspr.mobi)

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Allocators from C to Zig (antonz.org)

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96% Engineers Don't Trust AI Output, yet Only 48% Verify It (eng-leadership.com)

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What Happens When Technical Debt Vanishes? (ieee.org)

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Styling: Search-Text and Other Highlight-Y Pseudo-Elements (css-tricks.com)

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Fantasy football that celebrates great games (silvestar.codes)

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John Haugeland on the failure of micro-worlds (plover.com)

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Getting the Main Thing Right (seangoedecke.com)

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Interfaces and Traits in C (antonz.org)

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Stories from 25 Years of Computing (susam.net)

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Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?

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Displaying Letterboxd Like Counts on My Movie Reviews (joshbeckman.org)

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Website Carbon Calculator (joshbeckman.org)

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The Cost of Running Openbenches.org (shkspr.mobi)

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Air India grounds Boeing jet after pilot flags fuel control switch defect (bbc.co.uk)

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Are there any open APIs left? (shkspr.mobi)

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Do savings accounts lose money to inflation? (shkspr.mobi)

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Tips for getting coding agents to write good Python tests (simonwillison.net)

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Installing and Updating Filezilla from a Zip File on Pop_OS / Ubuntu (shkspr.mobi)

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Discovering My Talk (shkspr.mobi)

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You don't have to use Nix to manage your dotfiles (jade.fyi)

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Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey (go.dev)

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Removing "/Subtype /Watermark" Images from a PDF Using Linux (shkspr.mobi)

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Attention Media ≠ Social Media (susam.net)

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Should HTML's code blocks be translated? (shkspr.mobi)

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Scaling long-running autonomous coding (simonwillison.net)

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Writing First, Tooling Second (susam.net)

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Ask HN: Does GitHub Copilot now leave unsolicited PR review comments?

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Modernized Go Fix (antonz.org)

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Looking Back at the Best Inventions of 2001 (shkspr.mobi)

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A4 Paper Stories (susam.net)

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Fear is not AI advocacy (antonz.org)

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Timing 'Hello World' (antonz.org)

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Ask HN: Pointless thing you've read that gratified your intellectual curiosity?

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The Web Runs on Tolerance (shkspr.mobi)

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Go proposal: Type-safe error checking (antonz.org)

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CSS Fizz Buzz (susam.net)

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Go Proposal: Goroutine Metrics (antonz.org)

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The Idiot Sandwich – On Embedding Alt Text (shkspr.mobi)

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Lobsters Interview (susam.net)

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Conventional commits makes me sad (codeberg.page)

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Spec-Driven Development with AI (github.blog)

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Decompiling Binary Code with Large Language Models [pdf] (aclanthology.org)

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I Reinstated My Guestbook After 20 Years (susam.net)

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High-precision date/time in C (antonz.org)

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You did no fact checking, and I must scream (shkspr.mobi)

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Google Pixel tackles 'vanilla' smartphones in new spot (creativereview.co.uk)

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8 weeks later and Bluesky's legal dept still haven't answered my GDPR request (mastodon.social)

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Store Tags After Payloads (scattered-thoughts.net)

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Save pins button always disabled (github.com/orgs)

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Zest namespaces, store tags after payloads, go allocation probe (scattered-thoughts.net)

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Lobsters Interview with Susam (lobste.rs)

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I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C (shkspr.mobi)

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Redka: Redis Re-Implemented with SQL (antonz.org)

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1KB JavaScript Numbers Station (shkspr.mobi)

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Go allocation probe (scattered-thoughts.net)

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Concise Test Assertions with Be (antonz.org)

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What's so bad about sidecars anyway? (cerbos.dev)

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Product of Additive Inverses (susam.net)

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Making My Own Hacktoberfest T-Shirts (shkspr.mobi)

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Whatever happened to cheap eReaders? (shkspr.mobi)

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Waiting a decade in limbo for permanent UK residency is a prison sentence (lbc.co.uk)

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Ask HN: What nice, old software is maintained by solo dev?

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That's Not How a SIM Swap Attack Works (shkspr.mobi)

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List of Controversies Surrounding GoDaddy (wikipedia.org)

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C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup reimagines how coding is taught (stanforddaily.com)

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More Contrast, Please (susam.net)

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Pretty Print HTML Using PHP 8.4's New HTML DOM (shkspr.mobi)

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Updates on Schleswig-Holstein Moving to LibreOffice (documentfoundation.org)

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Cheetah vs. Other Template Engines (cheetahtemplate.org)

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Marek has graciously offered to maintain the dma-mapping tree (kernel.org)

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Ask HN: Is it possible to perform compile-time checks for all invariants?

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Using the most unhinged AVX-512 instruction to make the fastest phrase search (gab-menezes.github.io)

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CEO of UnitedHealthcare Fatally Shot in New York City (bbc.co.uk)