Articles by zdw
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Writing a Demoscene Intro for the ZX Spectrum (markround.com)

2

MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors (news.mit.edu)

2

LLMs should not be treated as humans (mnvr.in)

2

The Awesome Power of Constraint Solvers (btmc.substack.com)

13

Every US Electrical Outlet Explained [video] (youtube.com)

10

Bag of Decisions Reranker (softwaredoug.com)

2

Gotcha: GitHub Custom Properties are public (jvt.me)

1

The Wild West of polyglot docs sites (technicalwriting.dev)

21

Calling It Quits on ServerFault (sysadmin1138.net)

3

Why is Anthropic's public writing style so unlike Claude's? (cmart.blog)

1

Vim's UserGettingBored Autocmd (evanhahn.com)

1

So Long Relayd, and Thanks for All the Fish (btxx.org)

1

Fixing an EMachines EL1200 Bios Bug with Claude (downtowndougbrown.com)

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hdiutil is deprecated in macOS 27 Golden Gate (lapcatsoftware.com)

31

Things I want in a modern relational query language (sporks.space)

2

The ultimate horse (worksinprogress.co)

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"I built a speed/distance tracker for my hamster, uploads to his Strava account" (reddit.com)

1

Indirect Lessons from Human Alignment (dynomight.net)

1

"Phantom Twist" drone nearly disappears in flight [video] (youtube.com)

2

How much AI can a maintainer get away with using without losing their humanity? (jvt.me)

1

ImHex: Visualizing Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers (github.com/werwolv)

6

Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) (andrewkelley.me)

14

SupererDuperer (shirtpocket.com)

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The Hater's Guide to Hating (With Ed Zitron) (aftermath.site)

2

Hi, Jinks (gingerbeardman.com)

9

Cyberpunk Video Games (shellzine.net)

1

CryptanalysisBench: Can LLMs Do Cryptanalysis? (arxiv.org)

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Apple's hostile App Store rating system (lapcatsoftware.com)

31

Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to Win32 (collabora.com)

116

User Interfaces of the Demo Scene (datagubbe.se)

12

Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge? (dynomight.net)

2

Ailments: A field guide to potential Al-induced cognitive-behavioural disorders (informationisbeautiful.net)

5

The BBC Tetris Companion (leadedsolder.com)

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Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters (washingtonpost.com)

5

Convergence is not enough (inkandswitch.com)

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[flagged] Astronauts describe persistent 'observer' sensation after 6 month missions (spacedaily.com)

2

Why did early ASCII have ← and ↑ but not ↓ or →? (retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

71

We have proof automation now (imperialviolet.org)

83

LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals (debian.org)

3

AI in Linux (drewdevault.com)

2

Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

2

The Brick Game, Through the Ages (nicole.express)

2

Email Encryption (computer.rip)

1

Ecological patterns in Pokémon games reflect those observed in the natural world (jgeekstudies.org)

2

Impro is a handbook for running a cult (seangoedecke.com)

1

Who's responsible for bug reports on old software versions? (pointieststick.com)

2

FileVault on versus Off on Apple Silicon Macs (derflounder.wordpress.com)

42

ECC and DDR5 (coker.com.au)

1

AES Gets Swizzled (00f.net)

3

Plumbing Homebrew into the Vulnerability Ecosystem (nesbitt.io)

34

Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon (morethanmoore.substack.com)

45

Painting the sides of railroad rails white to reduce derailment (up.com)

14

Tech note: making your own V-I plots at home (lcamtuf.substack.com)

2

Spot Birds Not Golf (simonwillison.net)

2

Don't ask what you want. Ask who you want to be (softwaredoug.com)

2

Grok Build CLI uploads full Git history and .env secret to xAI's cloud (reddit.com)

2

8086 CPU, chipset, 640 KB RAM, floppy, keyboard and VGA screen in one CSS file (ahmedamer.co.uk)

1

TwoMillionKit: Private Cloud Compute in FoundationModels without an entitlement (github.com/insidegui)

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Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (shellzine.net)

11

Mastodon, the Only Good Choice (tbray.org)

7

How to build a circular LCD clock (blinry.org)

16

A Speed Limit for Computers (caolan.uk)

2

Archaeology team unearths 'prototype' of world-famous Stonehenge monument (apnews.com)

2

China lands rocket during an orbital launch for first time (space.com)

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Don't you mean extinct? (fabiensanglard.net)

38

Why Write Code in 2026 (softwaredoug.com)

3

Apple Hide My Email bug, possibly related to disclosure vulnerability (lapcatsoftware.com)

10

Old Icons (leancrew.com)

6

A Visual Catalog of Retro Macintosh Software (marciot.com)

1

Safari sidebar silently loads all your bookmarks (lapcatsoftware.com)

34

Kernel anti-cheat is an overreach (nooneshappy.com)

29

Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly? (nicole.express)

25

Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s (thomasw.dev)

23

The Plight of the Martian Farmer (mceglowski.substack.com)

14

Fixing analog audio on the $2.58 HDMI-to-VGA adapter (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)

2

Bugs happen: The easy way to compare solo PQ to ECC+PQ (cr.yp.to)

3

America imports 99% of its fireworks from China (justinkuiper.substack.com)

3

You're Weirder Than You Think (atvbt.com)

38

Soatok's Informal Guide to Threat Models (soatok.blog)

35

The firefighting system of the Van der Heyden brothers in 17th century Amsterdam (worksinprogress.co)

53

Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV (github.com/fossprime)

2

Overturning a $1B Copyright Award Against a Broadband Provider (acm.org)

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Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made (soranews24.com)

4

Q&A with Micron's VP and GM of Memory (morethanmoore.substack.com)

41

Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD (oldvcr.blogspot.com)

9

It's dead, Jim – the old Microsoft UEFI CA from 2011 expired yesterday (einval.com)

3

Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum – Meet Oomwoo (makerspet.com)

3

The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker (nooneshappy.com)

101

Free the Icons (rogueamoeba.com)

1

Inference Cards (cmart.blog)

3

IBM Announces 0.7nm Process Node, Introduces NanoStack (morethanmoore.substack.com)

19

Advanced Nintendo Entertainment System (ANES) – NES Modded to Use 2 PPUs (github.com/decrazyo)

1

Who's Suing Whom in AI? (informationisbeautiful.net)

3

Forward to Hell? Misusing Transparent DNS Forwarders for Amplification Attacks (ripe.net)

23

Nintendo Wii U games running from a 1980's Bernoulli disk [video] (youtube.com)

1

Designing Teams for an Agentic World (anup.io)

2

SOCKMAP - TCP splicing of the future (cloudflare.com)

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Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil (cnn.com)

2

Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file (movq.de)

3

Revised Rules of Engineering Leadership (lethain.com)