2026-01-05
2025-12-14
- Notes on Gamma
- Stop Breaking TLS
- Everything you never wanted to know about file locking
Best Part: "So that means python gives you three locks in one! The constants from flock(), the functionality of fcntl(), and the name lockf(). Thanks, python, for making my programming world so simple and easy to unravel." - Do Not Optimize Away
2025-11-30
- Landlock-ing Linux
- Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to
A story about unexpected dependencies, emacs, $TMPDIR, perl and capabilities
2025-11-20
2025-11-18
2025-11-17
- XSLT.RIP
A creative and nostalgic obituary for XSLT, created - of course - with XSLT. - There has to be a better way to make titanium
- An official atlas of North Korea
A North Korean atlas that shows the world from the perspective of one of the most isolated countries on the planet.
2025-11-16
2025-11-09
- The Homelessness Experiment
Corentin Trebaol writes about his experience living in a tent in during university - Google Just Suspended My Company's Google Cloud Account for the Third Time
2025-11-05
- JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective
- Mr TIFF
John Buck's searching for the authors of file formats. This time, he's looking for the inventor of TIFF
2025-11-02
- Compose Stability Analyzer
This plugin is an essential tool for every Android developer that uses Compose, as Compose has the same issues with stability that React has with props memoization.
2025-10-30
- Springs and Bounces in Native CSS
- Get Affinity
After Canvas acquired Serif, Affinity now has a freemium model with telemetry (opt-out) and paid AI plans as their only income stream
2025-10-29
- Mapping Underground Structures with 3D Scans
- Raspberry Pi Pico Bit-Bangs 100 Mbit/s Ethernet
- Stop Citing AI
Send this to someone who’s just said to you, “But ChatGPT Said...” - Space Exploration Logo Archive
Awesome collection of logos of space agencies, missions, etc. - Redis is fast - I'll cache in Postgres
- Kafka is fast -- I'll use Postgres
- uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
- Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds
2025-10-28
- Web Design Museum
A collection of old websites, apps and software from the 90s and early 2000s. - The Decline of Deviance - Where has all the weirdness gone?
- Chrome to warn on unencrypted HTTP by default
- Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?
- More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage
- Linux VM without VM software - User Mode Linux
2025-10-27
- The Cryptographic Doom Principle
- Mistakes I see engineers making in their code reviews
- A few comments on ‘age’
- Why Busy Beaver Hunters Fear the Antihydra