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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)

Jul 31, 2026, 11:13 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

AI models need moral support to make discoveries

Jul 31, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 30, 2026

Jul 30, 2026, 12:01 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT

Jul 29, 2026, 12:13 AM Simon Willison TIL

You don't have to be smart if you can think clearly

Jul 29, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

The real AI risk is inside the labs

Jul 28, 2026, 9:00 AM <antirez>

HTTP Message Signatures with curl

Jul 27, 2026, 6:55 AM daniel.haxx.se

Impressions of Teal

Jul 26, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Thoughts on "SIMD in Pure Python"

Jul 26, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

1,500 curl authors

Jul 25, 2026, 2:29 PM daniel.haxx.se

Solod 0.3: Concurrency, JSON, more safety

Jul 25, 2026, 11:30 AM Anton Zhiyanov

Being Linux Torvalds

Jul 25, 2026, 11:20 AM <antirez>

LLMs reward expertise

Jul 24, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 23, 2026

Jul 23, 2026, 12:29 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

AI in Linux

Jul 23, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Exercises in benchmarking and evals, part 7: DeepSWE, Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tires

Jul 23, 2026, 12:00 AM untitled

Powerful AIs might escape containment by releasing themselves as open-weight models

Jul 23, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

Jul 22, 2026, 11:51 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Not just development, distribution of software may change as well

Jul 22, 2026, 2:52 PM <antirez>

log is non-monotonic in PHP and Lua

Jul 22, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

log is non-monotonous in PHP and Lua

Jul 22, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team

Jul 21, 2026, 12:54 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Memory Safety's Hardest Problem

Jul 20, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

Impro is a handbook for running a cult

Jul 19, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Overtraining as the path to human-like AI

Jul 18, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Running Graphical Applications in Incus Containers

Jul 17, 2026, 8:17 PM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

Jul 16, 2026, 8:19 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Workshop Basel day three

Jul 16, 2026, 8:01 PM daniel.haxx.se

LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 16, 2026

Jul 16, 2026, 1:24 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Workshop Basel day two

Jul 15, 2026, 8:07 PM daniel.haxx.se

Battery packs: Let's talk about crates, baby

Jul 15, 2026, 12:00 AM Updated Jul 15, 2026, 3:24 PM baby steps

Workshop Basel day one

Jul 14, 2026, 8:25 PM daniel.haxx.se

Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way

Jul 14, 2026, 12:56 AM Simon Willison TIL

Presigned URLs are technically a security vuln

Jul 14, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

What does "playing politics" mean for software engineers?

Jul 14, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

You should probably check on your smart appliances

Jul 14, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Control the ideas, not the code

Jul 13, 2026, 11:39 AM <antirez>

Sorted rank coding

Jul 13, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Quadrupling code performance with a "useless" if

Jul 12, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

On interactive Go tours

Jul 11, 2026, 12:30 PM Anton Zhiyanov

In defense of not understanding your codebase

Jul 11, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Optimal parse with phminposuw

Jul 11, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Go-flavored concurrency in C

Jul 10, 2026, 12:00 PM Anton Zhiyanov

An unusual way for your DHCP server to run out of dynamic IPs

Jul 10, 2026, 3:00 AM Updated Jul 10, 2026, 3:02 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol

Jul 9, 2026, 7:46 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

BMCs and a surprising USB network device on your server

Jul 9, 2026, 1:41 AM Updated Jul 9, 2026, 1:50 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 9, 2026

Jul 9, 2026, 1:12 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

The console wars have been lost

Jul 9, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Notes on pulling from multiple upstream Git mirrors

Jul 8, 2026, 2:35 AM Updated Jul 8, 2026, 2:38 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Agents are monads (but not that kind)

Jul 8, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Our mixed building network wiring and its consequences

Jul 7, 2026, 10:53 PM Updated Jul 7, 2026, 10:54 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations

Jul 7, 2026, 7:32 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Using Linux <code>tc</code> to limit the outgoing bandwidth of a web server

Jul 7, 2026, 3:05 AM Updated Jul 7, 2026, 3:06 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Blog about things you don't understand yet

Jul 7, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Sometimes it actually is the network: a war story

Jul 6, 2026, 2:13 AM Updated Jul 6, 2026, 2:17 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

C2PA only works if everything is signed

Jul 6, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)

Jul 5, 2026, 1:00 AM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

What buffer size (OpenSSH) <code>ssh</code> seems to use for streaming output

Jul 4, 2026, 11:27 PM Updated Jul 4, 2026, 11:28 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Go maps, hashes of map keys, and pointers: a little surprise

Jul 4, 2026, 2:01 AM Updated Jul 4, 2026, 2:02 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Does technical blogging spark joy?

Jul 4, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Discovering rsync's -W option and our use for it

Jul 3, 2026, 2:41 AM Updated Jul 3, 2026, 2:42 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding from Galapagos Island

Jul 3, 2026, 12:00 AM untitled

Please Steal My Meshing Algorithm Idea

Jul 3, 2026, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Suffix BWT vs cyclic shift BWT, and fast computation

Jul 3, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

I'm only interested in "native" installation systems

Jul 2, 2026, 1:33 AM Updated Jul 2, 2026, 1:34 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 2, 2026

Jul 2, 2026, 12:18 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Optimizing Lua string literals to save 400 bytes

Jul 2, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove

Jul 2, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Our long path from IPMI remote installs to network installs

Jul 1, 2026, 2:52 AM Updated Jul 1, 2026, 2:54 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video

Jun 30, 2026, 4:54 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

As expected, using kexec to switch to a new Ubuntu kernel works

Jun 30, 2026, 3:10 AM Updated Jun 30, 2026, 3:12 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Do excellent vulnerability reports

Jun 29, 2026, 7:47 AM daniel.haxx.se

There's a plague of Googlebot impersonation going on (in June 2026)

Jun 29, 2026, 3:18 AM Updated Jun 29, 2026, 3:19 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Go interfaces, reflection, and binary size

Jun 28, 2026, 2:16 AM Updated Jun 28, 2026, 2:17 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

How your Ubuntu 26.04 server boots with a software RAID array root filesystem

Jun 27, 2026, 3:28 AM Updated Jun 27, 2026, 3:29 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Saying the obvious thing

Jun 27, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Solod 0.2: Networking, new targets, friendlier interop

Jun 26, 2026, 12:30 PM Anton Zhiyanov

Solod v0.2: Networking, new targets, friendlier interop

Jun 26, 2026, 12:30 PM Anton Zhiyanov

A curl mountain movie

Jun 26, 2026, 11:34 AM daniel.haxx.se

You can't always trust a BMC's inventory of the server's hardware

Jun 26, 2026, 3:25 AM Updated Jun 26, 2026, 3:26 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

AI inference is obviously profitable

Jun 26, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Mastodon Stories for systemd v261

Jun 25, 2026, 10:00 PM Pid Eins

Trailing dots are the worst

Jun 25, 2026, 7:48 AM daniel.haxx.se

Some things on '<code>systemctl kexec</code>' as compared to '<code>kexec -e</code>'

Jun 25, 2026, 2:42 AM Updated Jun 25, 2026, 2:43 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 25, 2026

Jun 25, 2026, 12:54 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

Jun 25, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

a CVE dispute

Jun 24, 2026, 9:38 PM daniel.haxx.se

curl 8.21.0

Jun 24, 2026, 6:00 AM daniel.haxx.se

Two versions of a 'is SSH up on a machine' check

Jun 24, 2026, 2:18 AM Updated Jun 24, 2026, 2:20 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

Jun 24, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

The quiet issue of lurking settings (and how it bit me)

Jun 23, 2026, 2:30 AM Updated Jun 23, 2026, 2:31 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

I taught a bucket to speak git

Jun 23, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code

Jun 22, 2026, 11:43 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Configuration is a liability, just like code

Jun 22, 2026, 3:08 AM Updated Jun 22, 2026, 3:09 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions

Jun 21, 2026, 11:35 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

PyPy and Python 3 for us

Jun 21, 2026, 3:13 AM Updated Jun 21, 2026, 3:14 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

QUERY with curl

Jun 20, 2026, 10:34 PM daniel.haxx.se

Limiting web server bandwidth the brute force way

Jun 20, 2026, 2:59 AM Updated Jun 20, 2026, 3:00 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Some reasons why your server may not be doing a UEFI network boot

Jun 19, 2026, 3:30 AM Updated Jun 19, 2026, 3:30 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

Jun 18, 2026, 11:58 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

How to correctly not wait for network carrier in Netplan

Jun 18, 2026, 2:02 AM Updated Jun 18, 2026, 2:03 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 18, 2026

Jun 18, 2026, 12:55 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

I hate compilers

Jun 18, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM

Jun 17, 2026, 11:58 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Why servers running Ubuntu can stall on boot for two minutes

Jun 17, 2026, 2:29 AM Updated Jun 18, 2026, 2:03 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

What the new Linux NFS mount option 'fatal_neterrors' is

Jun 16, 2026, 2:07 AM Updated Jun 16, 2026, 2:08 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand

Jun 16, 2026, 12:21 AM Simon Willison TIL

curl summer of bliss

Jun 15, 2026, 5:56 AM daniel.haxx.se

Systemd-resolved and sticking (or not) to what distributions do

Jun 15, 2026, 2:50 AM Updated Jun 15, 2026, 2:51 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

AI GPUs probably live longer than three years

Jun 15, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Linux distribution packaging and third party 'package' systems

Jun 14, 2026, 3:20 AM Updated Jun 14, 2026, 3:22 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Publishing WASM wheels to PyPI for use with Pyodide

Jun 13, 2026, 11:55 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Running a modern email system requires non-trivial staff time

Jun 13, 2026, 12:26 AM Updated Jun 13, 2026, 12:27 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Why disk warranties are useful at work but not for me at home

Jun 12, 2026, 1:39 AM Updated Jun 12, 2026, 1:40 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Why are cached input tokens cheaper with AI services?

Jun 12, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

Jun 11, 2026, 11:35 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 11, 2026

Jun 11, 2026, 12:02 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

My Firefox addons as of Firefox 151 (and the current development version)

Jun 10, 2026, 10:04 PM Updated Jun 10, 2026, 10:11 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

A human in control

Jun 10, 2026, 7:08 AM daniel.haxx.se

Making extensions work on file: URLs in Firefox 153

Jun 10, 2026, 2:37 AM Updated Jun 10, 2026, 2:38 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Initial impressions of Claude Fable 5

Jun 9, 2026, 11:59 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Setting a custom price for a model in AgentsView

Jun 9, 2026, 9:35 PM Simon Willison TIL

Understanding Embark in GNU Emacs (a bit) and some 'stupid' Embark tricks

Jun 9, 2026, 3:46 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

Jun 9, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Giving your Go apps Tigris superpowers

Jun 9, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Only Bounds

Jun 9, 2026, 12:00 AM Updated Jun 9, 2026, 9:04 AM baby steps

Should we care any more about Googlebot crawling our sites?

Jun 8, 2026, 2:04 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Doing nothing at work

Jun 8, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Working with product managers

Jun 8, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

A new era for software testing

Jun 7, 2026, 9:46 AM <antirez>

'Vim' has many faces

Jun 7, 2026, 2:32 AM Updated Jun 7, 2026, 2:33 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM

Jun 6, 2026, 3:53 AM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

It seems unlikely that I'll have basic ARM servers to deal with

Jun 5, 2026, 11:52 PM Updated Jun 5, 2026, 11:52 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

IPv6 zones in URLs are a mistake

Jun 5, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

The circus freaks of open source

Jun 5, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The Emacs packages that I use (as of June 2026)

Jun 4, 2026, 7:09 PM Updated Jun 4, 2026, 7:10 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 4, 2026

Jun 4, 2026, 1:31 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Anti-AI nostalgia and the cult of the past

Jun 4, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts

Jun 4, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

My GNU Emacs completion setup (as of June 2026)

Jun 3, 2026, 9:09 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

A wish for automatic or semi-automatic disk setup in Linux server installers

Jun 3, 2026, 2:44 AM Updated Jun 3, 2026, 2:45 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

When <code>su</code> replaced <code>login</code> for becoming another Unix login

Jun 2, 2026, 1:19 AM Updated Jun 2, 2026, 1:20 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Vim Classic 8.3.0 released

Jun 2, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

I'm not sure we'd use AppArmor much even if we could

Jun 1, 2026, 2:47 AM Updated Jun 1, 2026, 2:48 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

"No way to prevent this" say users of only package manager where this regularly happens

Jun 1, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Weird projects I shipped with AI

Jun 1, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Build agents, not pipelines

May 31, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Our unusual system of "web home directories" for people

May 30, 2026, 11:50 PM Updated May 30, 2026, 11:51 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Our servers mostly don't seem to have high peak power usage

May 30, 2026, 3:34 AM Updated May 30, 2026, 3:35 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

The Go language server can do some impressive code navigation

May 29, 2026, 1:37 AM Updated Jun 1, 2026, 7:47 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Claude Opus 4.8: "a modest but tangible improvement"

May 28, 2026, 11:59 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

curl up 2026 summary

May 28, 2026, 3:25 PM daniel.haxx.se

Using typing in Python leads to different sorts of code

May 28, 2026, 1:56 AM Updated May 28, 2026, 1:57 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026

May 28, 2026, 1:04 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Dancing mad with sandboxing

May 28, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit

May 27, 2026, 4:38 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

My views on some Python LSP servers in GNU Emacs (as of mid 2026)

May 27, 2026, 2:06 AM Updated May 27, 2026, 2:07 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

The pressure

May 26, 2026, 6:01 AM daniel.haxx.se

Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI

May 25, 2026, 11:58 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Anti-robot techniques can be nice but the problem is, they're not static

May 25, 2026, 5:13 PM Updated May 25, 2026, 5:14 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Distributing LLM inference in DwarfStar

May 25, 2026, 2:54 PM <antirez>

An idea: user level WireGuard for UDP based encryption and authentication

May 24, 2026, 2:24 PM Updated May 24, 2026, 2:26 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

How my minimal, memory-safe Go rsync steers clear of vulnerabilities

May 24, 2026, 2:20 PM Michael Stapelbergs Website

How our environment still needs the security boundary of Unix logins

May 23, 2026, 11:28 PM Updated May 23, 2026, 11:30 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

My views on Flymake and Flycheck in GNU Emacs (as of mid 2026)

May 23, 2026, 2:57 AM Updated May 23, 2026, 2:58 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Notes on respectfully getting a personal copy of a website's contents

May 21, 2026, 10:45 PM Updated May 21, 2026, 10:46 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Datasette Agent

May 21, 2026, 7:52 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 21, 2026

May 21, 2026, 2:27 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Unix has been changing, but in places where I don't see it

May 21, 2026, 1:57 AM Updated May 21, 2026, 1:58 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

May 21, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

"No way to prevent this" say users of only package manager where this regularly happens

May 21, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

The famous o3 "GeoGuessr" prompt did not work

May 21, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

TIL: Symlinking NixOS Dotfiles

May 21, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages

May 20, 2026, 3:01 AM Updated May 20, 2026, 3:02 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

May 20, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

New blog design

May 20, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Prompts are technical debt too

May 20, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Gemini 3.5 Flash: more expensive, but Google plan to use it for everything

May 19, 2026, 10:40 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

The hardware needs of our mail system (as of mid 2026)

May 19, 2026, 9:08 PM Updated May 19, 2026, 9:21 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Alternatives for the EDIT tool of LLM agents

May 19, 2026, 7:26 AM <antirez>

The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

May 19, 2026, 1:09 AM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Fixing a 20+ year old bug in Debian curl

May 18, 2026, 4:35 AM - Yet Another Me

Fixing a 20+ year old bug in Debian curl

May 18, 2026, 4:35 AM - Yet Another Me

Unicode and Emoji in terminals, or my simple but difficult wish

May 18, 2026, 2:26 AM Updated May 18, 2026, 3:13 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Always Be Blaming

May 18, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon

May 18, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Our servers seem to have surprisingly low power consumption

May 17, 2026, 3:03 AM Updated May 17, 2026, 3:04 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

How I use LLMs as a staff engineer in 2026

May 17, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

named globs with curl

May 16, 2026, 8:58 PM daniel.haxx.se

Getting C code navigation even for Debian (or Ubuntu) packages

May 16, 2026, 2:00 AM Updated May 16, 2026, 2:06 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

DeepSeek-V4-Flash means LLM steering is interesting again

May 16, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

I've finally ported <a href="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/dwiki/DWiki">DWiki</a> from Python 2 to Python 3

May 15, 2026, 12:17 AM Updated May 15, 2026, 12:18 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Add an LLM policy for rust-lang/rust

May 15, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A few words on DS4

May 14, 2026, 10:22 PM <antirez>

A GNU Emacs learning experience with text-mode hooks

May 14, 2026, 5:51 PM Updated May 14, 2026, 5:53 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Going from a ZFS object ID to its path the easier way

May 14, 2026, 2:52 AM Updated May 14, 2026, 2:53 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 14, 2026

May 14, 2026, 1:04 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt

May 14, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Catch Flakes On Main

May 14, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

In praise of the Linux kernel netconsole (in the right circumstances)

May 13, 2026, 12:29 AM Updated May 13, 2026, 12:30 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

AI datacenters in space do not have a cooling problem

May 13, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

A code (reformatting) conundrum in Python, and heuristics

May 12, 2026, 2:26 AM Updated May 12, 2026, 2:27 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Learning Software Architecture

May 12, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

Thinking Machines and interaction models

May 12, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Using LLM in the shebang line of a script

May 11, 2026, 6:48 PM Simon Willison TIL

Mythos finds a curl vulnerability

May 11, 2026, 6:01 AM daniel.haxx.se

Moving from lsp-mode in GNU Emacs to Eglot

May 11, 2026, 3:15 AM Updated May 11, 2026, 3:16 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

I'm really frustrated that GitLab is doing layoffs

May 11, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

The left-wing case for AI

May 10, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Using a Python 3 LSP server with Python 2 code works (more or less)

May 9, 2026, 9:57 PM Updated May 9, 2026, 9:58 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Notes on using GNU Emacs' Tramp system in an unusual shell environment

May 9, 2026, 2:09 AM Updated May 9, 2026, 2:10 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

AI makes weak engineers less harmful

May 9, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Detecting (or not) the use of -l and -c together in Bourne shells

May 8, 2026, 3:31 AM Updated May 8, 2026, 3:32 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Notes on incidents

May 8, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Steering Zig Fmt

May 8, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

Notes on the xAI/Anthropic data center deal

May 7, 2026, 5:09 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Your Linux distribution may no longer auto-generate new SSH host keys

May 7, 2026, 3:03 AM Updated May 7, 2026, 2:30 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 7, 2026

May 7, 2026, 12:01 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

May 7, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Why hasn't longer-horizon training slowed AI progress?

May 7, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Live blog: Code w/ Claude 2026

May 6, 2026, 3:58 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like

May 6, 2026, 2:24 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Solod 0.1: Go ergonomics, practical stdlib, native C interop

May 6, 2026, 11:00 AM Anton Zhiyanov

Solod v0.1: Go ergonomics, practical stdlib, native C interop

May 6, 2026, 11:00 AM Anton Zhiyanov

Splitting up my .emacs, or "use-package doesn't solve all problems"

May 6, 2026, 2:41 AM Updated May 6, 2026, 2:42 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Concurrent, atomic MSI hash tables

May 6, 2026, 2:01 AM null program

Straightforward checklists don't fit every situation

May 5, 2026, 3:28 AM Updated May 5, 2026, 3:29 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Redis array type: short story of a long development

May 4, 2026, 2:21 PM <antirez>

Some views on Eglot and lsp-mode in GNU Emacs

May 4, 2026, 2:40 AM Updated May 4, 2026, 2:41 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Minimal Viable Zig Error Contexts

May 3, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

This Wasm interpreter fits in a QR code

May 3, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Why I don't like the "staff engineer archetypes"

May 3, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

You might misunderstand arithmetic coding

May 3, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

How backups work depends on the goals of the people setting them up

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I can't cancel GitHub Copilot

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Inspired

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How to build reverse dependencies using Salsa CI

Apr 30, 2026, 2:27 AM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

Switching entirely to Corfu in my GNU Emacs configuration

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LLM 0.32a0 is a major backwards-compatible refactor

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curl 8.20.0

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If it's in JSON, it's not really a configuration file

Apr 29, 2026, 2:14 AM Updated Apr 29, 2026, 2:15 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

The easy way to switch my libvirt-based virtual machines to UEFI

Apr 28, 2026, 3:27 AM Updated Apr 28, 2026, 3:28 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Tracking the history of the now-deceased OpenAI Microsoft AGI clause

Apr 27, 2026, 6:38 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Browsers, OCSP, and a view of the web in practice

Apr 27, 2026, 3:42 AM Updated Apr 27, 2026, 3:43 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Wasm is not quite a stack machine

Apr 27, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Understanding the Ubuntu server installer initramfs

Apr 26, 2026, 2:48 AM Updated Apr 26, 2026, 2:49 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

I have officially retired from Emacs

Apr 26, 2026, 12:00 AM null program

My brave new code-signing world

Apr 25, 2026, 6:12 PM null program

Our backup MX server was easy to build, but yours might not be

Apr 25, 2026, 2:40 AM Updated Apr 25, 2026, 2:41 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

DeepSeek V4 - almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price

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Configuring the ISC DHCP server to pick the right network boot option

Apr 24, 2026, 3:53 AM Updated Apr 24, 2026, 3:54 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

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Extract PDF text in your browser with LiteParse for the web

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A pelican for GPT-5.5 via the semi-official Codex backdoor API

Apr 23, 2026, 7:59 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

The various steps of a UEFI network install from an Ubuntu server ISO

Apr 23, 2026, 3:28 AM Updated Apr 23, 2026, 3:29 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 23, 2026

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Wait, if (flags & O_SYNC) is wrong?

Apr 23, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

High-Quality Chaos

Apr 22, 2026, 11:44 AM daniel.haxx.se

Some general notes on network booting UEFI machines

Apr 22, 2026, 3:26 AM Updated Apr 22, 2026, 3:27 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not - it's all very confusing

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Blood in the datacenter

Apr 22, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

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How to view the Debian Upload Queue

Apr 21, 2026, 3:16 PM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

A backup MX will get accessed by various sorts of people

Apr 21, 2026, 3:10 AM Updated Apr 21, 2026, 3:11 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Addressing the harassment

Apr 21, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Symposium: community-oriented agentic development

Apr 21, 2026, 12:00 AM Updated Apr 21, 2026, 4:24 PM baby steps

Ignoring missing TLS "Client Authentication" usage in practice

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SQL functions in Google Sheets to fetch data from Datasette

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256 Lines or Less: Test Case Minimization

Apr 20, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

Rewrote my blog with Zine

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Tiny Go and Rust programs appear to start equally fast (on some machines)

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Hiding the option to leave comments from some visitors to here

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Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments

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Join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach - we have new AI and security tracks this year

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Does your DSL little language really need operator precedence?

Apr 17, 2026, 2:36 AM Updated Apr 17, 2026, 2:37 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7

Apr 16, 2026, 5:16 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

AI cybersecurity is not proof of work

Apr 16, 2026, 10:46 AM <antirez>

LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 16, 2026

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Our options in remote server installation and management

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Universities, email, and the issues of running things in house

Apr 15, 2026, 3:06 AM Updated Apr 15, 2026, 3:07 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Having an inventory of anything is a non-trivial thing

Apr 14, 2026, 3:23 AM Updated Apr 14, 2026, 3:24 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Vim and 'forward delete' (in modern terminal programs)

Apr 13, 2026, 1:31 AM Updated Apr 13, 2026, 1:32 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Programming used to be free

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Apache 2.4, ETag values, and (HTTP) response compression

Apr 12, 2026, 2:25 AM Updated Apr 12, 2026, 2:26 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

I'm now using nftables for (new) static rulesets

Apr 11, 2026, 1:54 AM Updated Apr 11, 2026, 1:55 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

No one owes you supply-chain security

Apr 11, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Some quick notes to myself on nftables 'symbolic variables'

Apr 9, 2026, 11:40 PM Updated Apr 9, 2026, 11:41 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Systemd v258's 'systemctl -v restart' and its limitations

Apr 9, 2026, 2:43 AM Updated Apr 9, 2026, 2:44 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 9, 2026

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Meta's new model is Muse Spark, and meta.ai chat has some interesting tools

Apr 8, 2026, 11:07 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Users and session classes in Systemd v258 and later (and a gotcha)

Apr 8, 2026, 12:14 AM Updated Apr 8, 2026, 12:15 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Anthropic's Project Glasswing - restricting Claude Mythos to security researchers - sounds necessary to me

Apr 7, 2026, 8:52 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Wondering about the typical retry times for email today

Apr 7, 2026, 3:22 AM Updated Apr 7, 2026, 3:23 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

dcmake: a new CMake debugger UI

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Finding out what your big RPMs are, in two different 'sizes'

Apr 6, 2026, 2:50 AM Updated Apr 6, 2026, 2:51 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

🚀 Signal boost: The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess

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Simplest hash functions

Apr 6, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Stamp It! All Programs Must Report Their Version

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Two little scripts: <code>addup</code> and <code>sumup</code>

Apr 5, 2026, 1:20 AM Updated Apr 5, 2026, 1:21 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

A tail-call interpreter in nightly Rust

Apr 5, 2026, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Web server ratelimits are a precaution to let me stop worrying

Apr 4, 2026, 12:03 AM Updated Apr 4, 2026, 12:04 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

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Porting Go's strings package to C

Apr 3, 2026, 1:00 PM Anton Zhiyanov

Using '<code>pkg</code>' for everything on FreeBSD 15 has been nice

Apr 3, 2026, 3:00 AM Updated Apr 3, 2026, 3:01 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Programming (with AI agents) as theory building

Apr 3, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Highlights from my conversation about agentic engineering on Lenny's Podcast

Apr 2, 2026, 8:40 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

I should use argument groups in Python's argparse module more than I do

Apr 2, 2026, 2:43 AM Updated Apr 2, 2026, 2:44 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for April 2, 2026

Apr 2, 2026, 12:39 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Bringing HTTP/3 to curl on Amazon Linux

Apr 2, 2026, 12:00 AM Samuel Henrique (samueloph)

Claude Code won April Fools Day this year

Apr 1, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Updating Ubuntu packages that you have local changes for with dgit

Mar 31, 2026, 10:07 PM Updated Mar 31, 2026, 10:08 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Here in 2026, we're retaining old systems instead of discarding them

Mar 31, 2026, 2:45 AM Updated Mar 31, 2026, 2:46 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Web

Mar 31, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Mr. Chatterbox is a (weak) Victorian-era ethically trained model you can run on your own computer

Mar 30, 2026, 2:28 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

How old our servers are (as of 2026)

Mar 30, 2026, 2:25 AM Updated Mar 30, 2026, 2:39 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Small note about AI 'GPUs'

Mar 30, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

2026 has been the most pivotal year in my career… and it's only March

Mar 29, 2026, 9:38 PM null program

New old systems in the age of hardware shortages

Mar 29, 2026, 2:52 AM Updated Mar 29, 2026, 2:53 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Latest NVIDIA Drivers for Debian (Packaged with AI)

Mar 29, 2026, 12:00 AM Samuel Henrique (samueloph)

Canonical's Netplan is hard to deal with in automation

Mar 28, 2026, 3:10 AM Updated Mar 28, 2026, 3:11 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync

Mar 28, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

tar: a slop-free alternative to rsync

Mar 28, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Vibe coding SwiftUI apps is a lot of fun

Mar 27, 2026, 8:59 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

I use curl with ECH btw (in Debian)

Mar 27, 2026, 12:00 AM Samuel Henrique (samueloph)

Working on products people hate

Mar 27, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Considering mmap() verus plain reads for my recent code

Mar 26, 2026, 11:05 PM Updated Mar 26, 2026, 11:06 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Mastodon Stories for systemd v260

Mar 26, 2026, 11:00 PM Pid Eins

Don’t trust, verify

Mar 26, 2026, 10:09 AM daniel.haxx.se

Early notes on switching some libvirt-based virtual machines to UEFI

Mar 26, 2026, 3:09 AM Updated Mar 26, 2026, 3:10 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 26, 2026

Mar 26, 2026, 12:41 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code

Mar 26, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Porting Go's io package to C

Mar 25, 2026, 2:00 PM Anton Zhiyanov

One hundred weirdo emails

Mar 25, 2026, 8:05 AM daniel.haxx.se

Going from an IPv4 address to an ASN in Python 2 with Unix brute force

Mar 25, 2026, 2:45 AM Updated Mar 25, 2026, 2:46 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

A eulogy for Vim

Mar 25, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A eulogy for Vim

Mar 25, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Fedora's virt-manager started using external snapshots for me as of Fedora 41

Mar 24, 2026, 2:51 AM Updated Mar 24, 2026, 3:33 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Mass production's effects on the cheapest way to get some things

Mar 23, 2026, 2:00 AM Updated Mar 23, 2026, 2:01 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills

Mar 22, 2026, 11:57 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

NTLM and SMB go opt-in

Mar 22, 2026, 11:41 AM daniel.haxx.se

Maximally minimal view types, a follow-up

Mar 22, 2026, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 22, 2026, 4:52 PM baby steps

Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments

Mar 21, 2026, 11:59 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

A traditional path to getting lingering duplicate systems

Mar 21, 2026, 8:36 PM Updated Mar 21, 2026, 8:37 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

bye bye RTMP

Mar 21, 2026, 2:06 PM daniel.haxx.se

Solod: Go can be a better C

Mar 21, 2026, 2:00 PM Anton Zhiyanov

Lingering duplicate systems and the expense of weeding them out (an illustration)

Mar 21, 2026, 3:05 AM Updated Mar 21, 2026, 3:06 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Maximally minimal view types

Mar 21, 2026, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 21, 2026, 4:37 PM baby steps

DMARC DNS record inheritance and DMARC alignment requirements

Mar 20, 2026, 2:56 AM Updated Mar 20, 2026, 2:57 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty

Mar 19, 2026, 4:45 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

One problem with (Python) docstrings is that they're local

Mar 19, 2026, 2:40 AM Updated Mar 19, 2026, 2:41 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 19, 2026

Mar 19, 2026, 12:00 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Consensus Board Game

Mar 19, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

Wayland has good reasons to put the window manager in the display server

Mar 18, 2026, 2:26 AM Updated Mar 18, 2026, 2:27 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Homelab downtime update: The fight for DNS supremacy

Mar 18, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Optimization lessons from a Minecraft structure locator

Mar 18, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano, which can describe 76,000 photos for $52

Mar 17, 2026, 7:39 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Cleaning old GPG RPM keys that your Fedora install is keeping around

Mar 17, 2026, 1:56 AM Updated Mar 17, 2026, 1:57 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

My homelab will be down for at least 20 days

Mar 17, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Reinventing aliasing XOR mutability and lifetimes

Mar 17, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Making empirical decisions about web access (here in 2026)

Mar 16, 2026, 2:12 AM Updated Mar 16, 2026, 2:13 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

One hundred curl graphs

Mar 15, 2026, 10:42 AM daniel.haxx.se

Your feed reader User-Agent is generic

Mar 15, 2026, 3:54 AM Wandering Thoughts: Your feed reader has a problem

An x86-64 backend for raven-uxn

Mar 15, 2026, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

I think dependency cooldowns would be a good idea for Go

Mar 14, 2026, 8:26 PM Updated Mar 14, 2026, 8:26 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit

Mar 14, 2026, 6:19 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

On today's web, HTTP results depend on the HTTP User-Agent you use

Mar 14, 2026, 3:27 AM Updated Mar 14, 2026, 3:28 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Big tech engineers need big egos

Mar 14, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

You (I) should document the forms of your Django web application

Mar 13, 2026, 3:18 AM Updated Mar 13, 2026, 3:19 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

chicken nuget

Mar 12, 2026, 10:05 PM daniel.haxx.se

UEFI-only booting with GRUB has gone okay on our (Ubuntu 24.04) servers

Mar 12, 2026, 1:24 AM Updated Mar 12, 2026, 1:25 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 12, 2026

Mar 12, 2026, 12:08 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

An ode to bzip

Mar 12, 2026, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

curl 8.19.0

Mar 11, 2026, 6:53 AM daniel.haxx.se

The story of one of my worst programming failures

Mar 11, 2026, 1:58 AM Updated Mar 11, 2026, 1:59 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

I don't know if I like working at higher levels of abstraction

Mar 11, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Dependency tracking is hard

Mar 10, 2026, 8:36 AM daniel.haxx.se

Power glitches can leave computer hardware in weird states

Mar 10, 2026, 3:58 AM Updated Mar 10, 2026, 3:59 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

10K curl downloads per year

Mar 9, 2026, 10:32 PM daniel.haxx.se

Perhaps not Boring Technology after all

Mar 9, 2026, 1:37 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

If there are URLs in your HTTP User-Agent, they should exist and work

Mar 9, 2026, 2:18 AM Updated Mar 29, 2026, 5:29 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Vibe Coding Trip Report: Making a sponsor panel

Mar 9, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

GNU and the AI reimplementations

Mar 8, 2026, 4:08 PM <antirez>

Restricting IP address access to specific ports in eBPF: a sketch

Mar 8, 2026, 3:04 AM Updated Mar 8, 2026, 3:05 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Some Thorns Have Roses

Mar 8, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Your terminal program has to be where xterm's ziconbeep feature is handled

Mar 7, 2026, 3:26 AM Updated Mar 7, 2026, 3:27 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Using Clankers to Help Me Process Surgery

Mar 7, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

How I think systemd IP address restrictions on socket units works

Mar 6, 2026, 4:43 AM Updated Mar 6, 2026, 4:44 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Advice for staying in the hospital for a week

Mar 6, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years

Mar 6, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code?

Mar 5, 2026, 4:49 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Sometimes, non-general solutions are the right answer

Mar 5, 2026, 3:33 AM Updated Mar 5, 2026, 3:34 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for March 5, 2026

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JJ LSP Follow Up

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Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

Mar 4, 2026, 3:50 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

A taxonomy of text output (from tools that want to be too clever)

Mar 4, 2026, 1:41 AM Updated Mar 4, 2026, 1:42 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Log messages are mostly for the people operating your software

Mar 3, 2026, 4:48 AM Updated Mar 3, 2026, 4:51 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Giving LLMs a personality is just good engineering

Mar 3, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

The things that make me so attached to xterm as my terminal program

Mar 2, 2026, 4:27 AM Updated Mar 2, 2026, 4:28 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

The Unbound Scepter

Mar 2, 2026, 12:00 AM Xe Iaso's blog

Redis patterns for coding

Mar 1, 2026, 9:55 AM <antirez>

Sometimes the simplest version of a text table is printed from a command

Mar 1, 2026, 3:17 AM Updated Mar 1, 2026, 3:18 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

On the Bourne shell's distinction between shell variables and exported ones

Feb 28, 2026, 3:44 AM Updated Feb 28, 2026, 3:45 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

How to redirect a Bash process substitution into a <code>while</code> loop

Feb 27, 2026, 3:37 AM Updated Feb 27, 2026, 3:40 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

How Dada enables internal references

Feb 27, 2026, 12:00 AM Updated Feb 27, 2026, 10:20 AM baby steps

curl up 2026

Feb 26, 2026, 8:42 AM daniel.haxx.se

With disk caches, you want to be able to attribute hits and misses

Feb 26, 2026, 3:06 AM Updated Feb 26, 2026, 3:07 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 26, 2026

Feb 26, 2026, 12:20 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

I vibe coded my dream macOS presentation app

Feb 25, 2026, 4:46 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Systemd resource controls on user.slice and system.slice work fine

Feb 25, 2026, 3:54 AM Updated Feb 25, 2026, 3:55 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Against Query Based Compilers

Feb 25, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

Implementing a clear room Z80 / ZX Spectrum emulator with Claude Code

Feb 24, 2026, 5:58 PM <antirez>

Gnome, GSettings, gconf, and which one you want

Feb 24, 2026, 3:22 AM Updated Feb 24, 2026, 3:23 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Writing about Agentic Engineering Patterns

Feb 23, 2026, 5:43 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Insider amnesia

Feb 23, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust

Feb 23, 2026, 12:00 AM Updated Feb 23, 2026, 1:14 PM baby steps

What's so hard about continuous learning?

Feb 23, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

PDUs can fail (eventually) and some things related to this

Feb 22, 2026, 11:23 PM Updated Feb 22, 2026, 11:24 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

The importance of limiting syndication feed requests in some way

Feb 22, 2026, 1:27 AM Updated Feb 22, 2026, 1:28 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Status update, February 2026

Feb 21, 2026, 10:00 PM emersion

Consider mentioning your little personal scripts to your co-workers

Feb 21, 2026, 3:59 AM Updated Feb 21, 2026, 4:00 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Wrapping Code Comments

Feb 21, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

Adding TILs, releases, museums, tools and research to my blog

Feb 20, 2026, 11:47 PM Simon Willison's Weblog: Entries

Parsing hours and minutes into a useful time in basic Python

Feb 20, 2026, 3:48 AM Updated Feb 20, 2026, 3:49 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

How GNU Tar handles deleted things in incremental tar archives

Feb 19, 2026, 4:10 AM Updated Feb 19, 2026, 4:11 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 19, 2026

Feb 19, 2026, 12:09 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Two challenges of incremental backups

Feb 18, 2026, 4:25 AM Updated Feb 18, 2026, 4:26 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Understanding the limitation of 'do in new frame/window' in GNU Emacs

Feb 17, 2026, 3:09 AM Updated Feb 17, 2026, 3:10 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LLM-generated skills work, if you generate them afterwards

Feb 17, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Sometimes giving syndication feed readers good errors is a mistake

Feb 16, 2026, 3:56 AM Updated Mar 29, 2026, 5:29 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Diagnostics Factory

Feb 16, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

The problem of delivering errors to syndication feed readers

Feb 15, 2026, 4:30 AM Updated Feb 15, 2026, 4:31 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Your feed reader is fetching from a limited network area

Feb 15, 2026, 3:54 AM Wandering Thoughts: Your feed reader is fetching from a limited network area

Two different tricks for fast LLM inference

Feb 15, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

zipzap

Feb 15, 2026, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

The (very) old "repaint mode" GUI approach

Feb 14, 2026, 4:34 AM Updated Feb 14, 2026, 4:35 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Justifying text-wrap: pretty

Feb 14, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

Sharing in Dada

Feb 14, 2026, 12:00 AM Updated Feb 14, 2026, 11:49 AM baby steps

Testing Linux memory limits is a bit of a pain

Feb 13, 2026, 4:23 AM Updated Feb 13, 2026, 4:24 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Allocators from C to Zig

Feb 12, 2026, 12:00 PM Anton Zhiyanov

Undo in Vi and its successors, and my views on the mess

Feb 12, 2026, 4:19 AM Updated Feb 12, 2026, 4:20 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 12, 2026

Feb 12, 2026, 12:02 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Moving to make many of my SSH logins not report things on login

Feb 11, 2026, 4:32 AM Updated Feb 11, 2026, 4:33 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

On screwing up

Feb 11, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Programming Aphorisms

Feb 11, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

A fun Python puzzle with circular imports

Feb 10, 2026, 4:12 AM Updated Feb 10, 2026, 4:13 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Dada: moves and mutation

Feb 10, 2026, 12:00 AM Updated Feb 11, 2026, 12:29 AM baby steps

Systemd and blocking connections to localhost, including via 'any'

Feb 9, 2026, 4:21 AM Updated Feb 9, 2026, 4:22 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Hello, Dada!

Feb 9, 2026, 12:00 AM Updated Feb 9, 2026, 11:03 AM baby steps

The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)

Feb 8, 2026, 3:50 AM Updated Feb 8, 2026, 3:51 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Fun With Dada

Feb 8, 2026, 12:00 AM Updated Feb 9, 2026, 2:20 AM baby steps

Large tech companies don't need heroes

Feb 8, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

How we failed to notice a power failure

Feb 7, 2026, 4:25 AM Updated Feb 7, 2026, 4:26 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

A surprising path to accessing localhost URLs and HTTP services

Feb 6, 2026, 3:43 AM Updated Feb 6, 2026, 3:44 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

CI In a Box

Feb 6, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

(Un)portable defer in C

Feb 5, 2026, 12:00 PM Anton Zhiyanov

The meaning of connecting to INADDR_ANY in TCP and UDP

Feb 5, 2026, 2:55 AM Updated Feb 5, 2026, 2:57 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for February 5, 2026

Feb 5, 2026, 12:12 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Getting the main thing right

Feb 5, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

I prefer to pass secrets between programs through standard input

Feb 4, 2026, 4:12 AM Updated Feb 4, 2026, 4:13 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

The consoles of UEFI, serial and otherwise, and their discontents

Feb 3, 2026, 3:07 AM Updated Feb 3, 2026, 9:27 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Estimating where your Prometheus Blackbox TCP query-response check failed

Feb 2, 2026, 4:20 AM Updated Feb 2, 2026, 4:21 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Running OpenClaw in Docker

Feb 1, 2026, 11:59 PM Simon Willison TIL

Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with microvm.nix

Feb 1, 2026, 8:00 AM Michael Stapelbergs Website

Early Linux package manager history and patching upstream source releases

Feb 1, 2026, 3:19 AM Updated Feb 1, 2026, 3:22 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Automatic programming

Jan 31, 2026, 9:25 AM <antirez>

Making a FreeBSD system have a serial console on its second serial port

Jan 31, 2026, 4:57 AM Updated Jan 31, 2026, 4:58 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

How does AI impact skill formation?

Jan 31, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Why I'm ignoring pretty much all new Python packaging tools

Jan 30, 2026, 3:59 AM Updated Jan 30, 2026, 4:00 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Why Linux wound up with system package managers

Jan 29, 2026, 4:37 AM Updated Jan 29, 2026, 4:38 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 29, 2026

Jan 29, 2026, 1:01 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

The cults of TDD and GenAI

Jan 29, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The cults of TDD and GenAI

Jan 29, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The two subtypes of one sort of package managers, the "program manager"

Jan 28, 2026, 2:08 AM Updated Jan 28, 2026, 2:09 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Forcing a Go generic type to be a pointer type (and some challenges)

Jan 27, 2026, 4:48 AM Updated Jan 27, 2026, 4:58 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

make.ts

Jan 27, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

Introducing Amutable

Jan 26, 2026, 11:00 PM Pid Eins

Scraping the FreeBSD 'mpd5' daemon to obtain L2TP VPN usage data

Jan 26, 2026, 4:00 AM Updated Jan 26, 2026, 4:01 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

You have to know how to drive the car

Jan 26, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Printing things in colour is not simple

Jan 25, 2026, 3:47 AM Updated Jan 25, 2026, 3:48 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Understanding <code>query_response</code> in Prometheus Blackbox's tcp prober

Jan 24, 2026, 2:54 AM Updated Jan 24, 2026, 2:55 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

How I estimate work as a staff software engineer

Jan 24, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Cloudflare response header transform rules

Jan 23, 2026, 3:08 PM Simon Willison TIL

Pitfalls in using Prometheus Blackbox to monitor external SMTP

Jan 23, 2026, 4:15 AM Updated Jan 23, 2026, 4:15 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Considering Strictly Monotonic Time

Jan 23, 2026, 12:00 AM matklad

Previewing Claude Code for web branches with GitHub Pages

Jan 22, 2026, 4:43 PM Simon Willison TIL

Interfaces and traits in C

Jan 22, 2026, 12:00 PM Anton Zhiyanov

What ZFS people usually mean when they talk about "ZFS metadata"

Jan 22, 2026, 4:14 AM Updated Jan 22, 2026, 4:15 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 22, 2026

Jan 22, 2026, 12:47 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Status update, January 2026

Jan 21, 2026, 10:00 PM emersion

The long painful history of (re)using <code>login</code> to log people in

Jan 21, 2026, 3:36 AM Updated Jan 21, 2026, 3:38 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

TCP, UDP, and listening only on a specific IP address

Jan 20, 2026, 2:33 AM Updated Jan 20, 2026, 2:34 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

I'm addicted to being useful

Jan 20, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Frankenwine: Multiple personas in a Wine process

Jan 19, 2026, 9:51 PM null program

Fast Unrounded Scaling: Proof by Ivy

Jan 19, 2026, 9:46 PM Updated Jan 19, 2026, 9:48 PM research!rsc

Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast

Jan 19, 2026, 9:45 PM Updated Jan 19, 2026, 9:47 PM research!rsc

Single sign on systems versus X.509 certificates for the web

Jan 19, 2026, 3:59 AM Updated Jan 19, 2026, 4:00 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

People cannot "just pay attention" to (boring, routine) things

Jan 18, 2026, 2:04 AM Updated Jan 19, 2026, 4:21 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Systemd-networkd and giving your virtual devices alternate names

Jan 17, 2026, 3:28 AM Updated Jan 17, 2026, 3:29 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Crypto grifters are recruiting open-source AI developers

Jan 17, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

TCP and UDP and implicit "standard" elements of things

Jan 16, 2026, 2:34 AM Updated Jan 16, 2026, 2:35 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Linux network interface names have a length limit, and Netplan

Jan 15, 2026, 2:19 AM Updated Jan 17, 2026, 3:08 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 15, 2026

Jan 15, 2026, 12:03 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Safely querying Spamhaus DNSBLs in Exim

Jan 14, 2026, 2:53 AM Updated Jan 14, 2026, 2:54 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Something you don't want to do when using Spamhaus's DQS with Exim

Jan 13, 2026, 4:16 AM Updated Jan 13, 2026, 4:21 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

An annoyance in how Netplan requires you to specify VLANs

Jan 12, 2026, 4:27 AM Updated Jan 12, 2026, 4:28 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Redesigning my microkernel from the ground up

Jan 12, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Redesigning my microkernel from the ground up

Jan 12, 2026, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Taking Neon I at the Crucible

Jan 11, 2026, 5:34 PM Simon Willison TIL

Don't fall into the anti-AI hype

Jan 11, 2026, 10:15 AM <antirez>

Early experience with using Linux tc to fight bufferbloat latency

Jan 11, 2026, 3:52 AM Updated Jan 11, 2026, 3:53 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Pulling a New Proof from Knuth’s Fixed-Point Printer

Jan 10, 2026, 2:00 PM Updated Jan 10, 2026, 2:02 PM research!rsc

Floating Point Formatting

Jan 10, 2026, 1:00 PM Updated Jan 10, 2026, 1:02 PM research!rsc

Distribution source packages and whether or not to embed in the source code

Jan 10, 2026, 3:46 AM Updated Jan 10, 2026, 3:46 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

The Amanda backup system and "dump promotion"

Jan 9, 2026, 3:05 AM Updated Jan 9, 2026, 3:06 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

What 24 hours of traffic looks like to our main web server in January 2026

Jan 8, 2026, 3:54 AM Updated Jan 8, 2026, 3:55 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 8, 2026

Jan 8, 2026, 1:36 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Why we have some AC units on one of our our internal networks

Jan 7, 2026, 3:13 AM Updated Jan 7, 2026, 3:14 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Prometheus, Let's Encrypt, and making sure all our TLS certificates are monitored

Jan 6, 2026, 3:11 AM Updated Jan 6, 2026, 3:12 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Go 1.26 interactive tour

Jan 5, 2026, 1:00 PM Anton Zhiyanov

Some notes to myself on Super-based bindings in GNU Emacs

Jan 5, 2026, 3:11 AM Updated Jan 5, 2026, 3:13 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

The Dictator's Handbook and the politics of technical competence

Jan 5, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Fear is not advocacy

Jan 4, 2026, 12:00 PM Anton Zhiyanov

Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026?

Jan 4, 2026, 7:55 AM Michael Stapelbergs Website

A small suggestion in modern Linux: take screenshots (before upgrades)

Jan 4, 2026, 3:50 AM Updated Jan 4, 2026, 3:51 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

The complexities of getting programs to report the TLS certificates they use

Jan 3, 2026, 3:17 AM Updated Jan 3, 2026, 3:18 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

2025 was an excellent year for this blog

Jan 3, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

A Go question: how do you test <code>select</code> based code?

Jan 2, 2026, 3:24 AM Updated Jan 2, 2026, 3:25 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

Jan 2, 2026, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

WebAssembly as a Python extension platform

Jan 1, 2026, 9:21 PM null program

A little bit of complex design in phone "Level" applications

Jan 1, 2026, 2:24 AM Updated Jan 1, 2026, 2:25 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

2026

Jan 1, 2026, 12:00 AM Anton Zhiyanov

2025 Recap: so many projects

Dec 31, 2025, 10:00 PM fasterthanli.me

Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy using eBPF

Dec 31, 2025, 2:15 PM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

Freestyle linked lists tricks

Dec 31, 2025, 11:59 AM null program

My ideal Linux source package format (at the moment)

Dec 31, 2025, 4:25 AM Updated Dec 31, 2025, 4:26 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Downloading archived Git repositories from archive.softwareheritage.org

Dec 30, 2025, 11:43 PM Simon Willison TIL

Mastodon Stories for systemd v259

Dec 30, 2025, 11:00 PM Pid Eins

Linux distribution packaging should be as declarative as possible

Dec 30, 2025, 1:49 AM Updated Dec 30, 2025, 1:50 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Expiry times are dangerous, on "The dangers of SSL certificates"

Dec 29, 2025, 3:48 AM Updated Dec 29, 2025, 3:48 AM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Caves of Qud: A review

Dec 29, 2025, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Why Debian and RPM (source) packages are complicated

Dec 28, 2025, 2:44 AM Updated Dec 28, 2025, 10:05 PM Chris's Wiki :: blog

Software engineers should be a little bit cynical

Dec 28, 2025, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

You can't design software you don't work on

Dec 27, 2025, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

'Better C' playgrounds

Dec 26, 2025, 7:00 PM Anton Zhiyanov

LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 25, 2025

Dec 25, 2025, 12:53 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Nobody knows how large software products work

Dec 24, 2025, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode

Dec 23, 2025, 4:20 AM null program

Status update, December 2025

Dec 21, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

Reflections on AI at the end of 2025

Dec 20, 2025, 8:58 AM <antirez>

Faster practical modular inversion

Dec 20, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 18, 2025

Dec 18, 2025, 12:16 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Rust's v0 mangling scheme in a nutshell

Dec 15, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Introducing arborium, a tree-sitter distribution

Dec 13, 2025, 10:00 AM fasterthanli.me

Closures as Win32 window procedures

Dec 12, 2025, 7:52 PM null program

LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 11, 2025

Dec 11, 2025, 12:18 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Subtests in pytest 9.0.0+

Dec 5, 2025, 5:44 AM Simon Willison TIL

AI detection tools cannot prove that text is AI-generated

Dec 5, 2025, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 4, 2025

Dec 4, 2025, 12:10 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Dependency groups and uv run

Dec 3, 2025, 4:55 AM Simon Willison TIL

Faster comparison modulo α-equivalence

Nov 30, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Self-hosting my photos with Immich

Nov 29, 2025, 7:22 AM Michael Stapelbergs Website

How good engineers write bad code at big companies

Nov 29, 2025, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Becoming unblockable

Nov 26, 2025, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

A look at Rust from 2012

Nov 25, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Does Dioxus spark joy?

Nov 22, 2025, 6:30 PM fasterthanli.me

Why it takes months to tell if new AI models are good

Nov 22, 2025, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Move Expressions

Nov 21, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Nov 21, 2025, 10:45 AM baby steps

LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 20, 2025

Nov 20, 2025, 12:13 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

ntoh*/hton* is a bad API

Nov 18, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Mastodon Stories for systemd v258

Nov 17, 2025, 11:00 PM Pid Eins

Finding duplicated code with tools from your CS course

Nov 17, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Only three kinds of AI products actually work

Nov 16, 2025, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

Status update, November 2025

Nov 15, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

Writing for AIs is a good way to reach more humans

Nov 14, 2025, 12:00 AM seangoedecke.com RSS feed

LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 13, 2025

Nov 13, 2025, 1:04 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Scaling HNSWs

Nov 11, 2025, 12:53 PM <antirez>

Just call clone (or alias)

Nov 10, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Nov 10, 2025, 6:55 PM baby steps

OpenAI employees… are you okay?

Nov 8, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

OpenAI employees… are you okay?

Nov 8, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Using Codex CLI with gpt-oss:120b on an NVIDIA DGX Spark via Tailscale

Nov 7, 2025, 7:16 AM Simon Willison TIL

LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 6, 2025

Nov 6, 2025, 12:14 AM LWN.net Weekly Editions

Bikeshedding `Handle` and other follow-up thoughts

Nov 5, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Nov 5, 2025, 1:15 PM baby steps

But then again...maybe alias?

Nov 5, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Nov 5, 2025, 1:57 PM baby steps

JVM exceptions are weird: a decompiler perspective

Nov 2, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Engineering a Rust optimization quiz

Nov 1, 2025, 11:08 AM fasterthanli.me

My impressions of the MacBook Pro M4

Oct 31, 2025, 10:04 AM Michael Stapelbergs Website

Explicit capture clauses

Oct 22, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 22, 2025, 10:08 AM baby steps

What's up with FUTO?

Oct 22, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

What's up with FUTO?

Oct 22, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Move, Destruct, Forget, and Rust

Oct 21, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 22, 2025, 1:45 AM baby steps

Exploring OpenAI's deep research API model o4-mini-deep-research

Oct 18, 2025, 6:46 PM Simon Willison TIL

Speculations on arenas and non-trivial destructors

Oct 16, 2025, 8:11 PM null program

Status update, October 2025

Oct 15, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

We need (at least) ergonomic, explicit handles

Oct 13, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 13, 2025, 11:39 AM baby steps

Avoiding 5XX errors by adjusting Load Balancer Idle Timeout

Oct 10, 2025, 2:56 PM Updated Oct 10, 2025, 5:04 PM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

How to Build an Incus Buster Image

Oct 9, 2025, 3:01 AM Charlz' Realm

Testing different Python versions with uv with-editable and uv-test

Oct 9, 2025, 2:47 AM Simon Willison TIL

Testing different Python versions with uv with-editable and uv-test

Oct 9, 2025, 2:47 AM Simon Willison TIL

SymmACP: extending Zed's ACP to support Composable Agents

Oct 8, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 8, 2025, 8:54 AM baby steps

The Handle trait

Oct 7, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 7, 2025, 2:04 PM baby steps

Announcing vali, a C library for Varlink

Oct 3, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

Error 153 Video player configuration error on YouTube embeds

Sep 30, 2025, 5:07 PM Simon Willison TIL

More speculations on arenas in C++

Sep 30, 2025, 11:46 AM null program

The expression problem and Rust

Sep 30, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Cloudflare bankrolls fascists

Sep 24, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Cloudflare bankrolls fascists

Sep 24, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Symposium: exploring new AI workflows

Sep 24, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 24, 2025, 8:39 PM baby steps

NixCon 2025 Trip Report 🐝

Sep 21, 2025, 7:34 AM Michael Stapelbergs Website

A better future for JavaScript that won't happen

Sep 17, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A better future for JavaScript that won't happen

Sep 17, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Making our own spectrogram

Sep 15, 2025, 7:30 AM fasterthanli.me

crates.io phishing attempt

Sep 12, 2025, 2:00 PM fasterthanli.me

Fenwick layout for interval trees

Sep 10, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

color npm package compromised

Sep 8, 2025, 4:50 PM fasterthanli.me

Bye Intel, hi AMD! I’m done after 2 dead Intels

Sep 7, 2025, 6:33 AM Michael Stapelbergs Website

If I hear "design pattern" one more time, I'll go mad

Sep 4, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Making KGB less noisy

Sep 2, 2025, 12:18 AM Charlz' Realm

Debian 13: My list of exciting new features

Aug 28, 2025, 5:30 PM Samuel Henrique (samueloph)

Secret Management on NixOS with sops-nix

Aug 24, 2025, 7:56 AM Michael Stapelbergs Website

The science of loudness

Aug 22, 2025, 8:30 PM fasterthanli.me

Embedding Wren in Hare

Aug 20, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Embedding Wren in Hare

Aug 20, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Running a gpt-oss eval suite against LM Studio on a Mac

Aug 17, 2025, 3:38 AM Simon Willison TIL

Status update, August 2025

Aug 16, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

Summer fasterthanlime update

Aug 15, 2025, 7:30 AM fasterthanli.me

AI is different

Aug 13, 2025, 3:59 PM <antirez>

Configuring GitHub Codespaces using devcontainers

Aug 13, 2025, 5:13 AM Simon Willison TIL

Running Docker (OCI) Images in Incus

Aug 12, 2025, 2:18 AM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

What's new with Himitsu 0.9?

Aug 8, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

What's new with Himitsu 0.9?

Aug 8, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Query Debian changelogs by keyword with the FTP-Master API

Aug 3, 2025, 7:52 PM Updated Jan 27, 2026, 5:20 PM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

Rust, Python, and TypeScript: the new trifecta

Jul 31, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Jul 31, 2025, 1:52 PM baby steps

Handling malicious requests with fail2ban

Jul 28, 2025, 3:36 PM Updated Aug 3, 2025, 3:52 AM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

Development shells with Nix: four quick examples

Jul 27, 2025, 6:50 AM Michael Stapelbergs Website

You won't believe what this AI said after deleting a database (but you might relate)

Jul 24, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Jul 24, 2025, 6:43 PM baby steps

Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 (an update)

Jul 20, 2025, 10:58 AM <antirez>

Status update, July 2025

Jul 18, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

"AI discourse" is a joke

Jul 14, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Migrating my NAS from CoreOS/Flatcar Linux to NixOS

Jul 13, 2025, 6:17 AM Michael Stapelbergs Website

How I finally tracked my Debian uploads correctly

Jul 5, 2025, 1:28 PM Updated Jul 23, 2025, 12:02 PM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

Rate limiting by IP using Cloudflare's rate limiting rules

Jul 3, 2025, 9:06 PM Simon Willison TIL

Hidden complexity in software development

Jul 2, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Just speak the truth

Jun 30, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Just speak the truth

Jun 30, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How I deployed this Website

Jun 29, 2025, 6:57 PM Updated Aug 1, 2025, 2:50 PM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

All color is best-effort

Jun 27, 2025, 7:30 AM fasterthanli.me

Status update, June 2025

Jun 20, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

GCC, glibc, stack unwinding and relocations – A war story

Jun 18, 2025, 3:29 AM - Yet Another Me

GCC, glibc, stack unwinding and relocations – A war story

Jun 18, 2025, 3:29 AM - Yet Another Me

Splitting independent variables without SSA

Jun 15, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

ASG! 2025 CfP Closes Tomorrow!

Jun 11, 2025, 10:00 PM Pid Eins

Unionize or die

Jun 9, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Unionize or die

Jun 9, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Fast limited-range conversion between ints and floats

Jun 7, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Recovering control flow structures without CFGs

Jun 6, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Why package X is installed in your Debian

Jun 5, 2025, 8:08 PM Updated Jun 9, 2025, 4:38 PM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

Introducing facet: Reflection for Rust

Jun 5, 2025, 7:00 PM fasterthanli.me

Disable sleep on lid close

Jun 4, 2025, 2:15 PM Updated Jul 3, 2025, 1:49 AM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

Why this website exists

Jun 4, 2025, 2:01 AM Sérgio Cipriano's Website

How I like to install NixOS (declaratively)

Jun 1, 2025, 6:20 AM Michael Stapelbergs Website

The virtue of unsynn

May 29, 2025, 5:20 PM fasterthanli.me

Human coders are still better than LLMs

May 29, 2025, 4:34 PM <antirez>

Using Rust to build Aurora DSQL

May 28, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated May 28, 2025, 6:00 PM baby steps

My 2025 high-end Linux PC 🐧

May 15, 2025, 1:44 PM Michael Stapelbergs Website

Rust turns 10

May 15, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated May 15, 2025, 9:46 PM baby steps

Status update, May 2025

May 14, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

Gradients are the new intervals

May 14, 2025, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Debian Bug Squashing Party Brazil 2025

May 11, 2025, 10:00 PM - Yet Another Me

Debian Bug Squashing Party Brazil 2025

May 11, 2025, 10:00 PM - Yet Another Me

In praise of grobi for auto-configuring X11 monitors

May 10, 2025, 6:24 AM Michael Stapelbergs Website

The British Airways position on various border disputes

May 5, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The British Airways position on various border disputes

May 5, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

What I learned during the license switch

May 2, 2025, 8:46 AM <antirez>

Redis is open source again

May 1, 2025, 3:55 PM <antirez>

Why performance optimization is hard work

Apr 29, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Differential Coverage for Debugging

Apr 25, 2025, 3:40 PM Updated Apr 25, 2025, 3:42 PM research!rsc

Open sourcing the home CMS

Apr 22, 2025, 12:00 PM fasterthanli.me

Resistance from the tech sector

Apr 20, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Resistance from the tech sector

Apr 20, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, April 2025

Apr 16, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

The promise of Rust

Apr 16, 2025, 8:30 PM fasterthanli.me

Reproducing Hacker News writing style fingerprinting

Apr 16, 2025, 1:53 PM <antirez>

A cautionary tale about continuity

Apr 12, 2025, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

That health is mental

Apr 9, 2025, 11:00 AM fasterthanli.me

More devops than I bargained for

Apr 7, 2025, 7:10 PM fasterthanli.me

A Firefox addon for putting prices into perspective

Apr 4, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A Firefox addon for putting prices into perspective

Apr 4, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Vector Sets are part of Redis

Apr 3, 2025, 6:01 PM <antirez>

Impromptu disaster recovery

Mar 28, 2025, 2:10 PM fasterthanli.me

Using linkhut to signal-boost my bookmarks

Mar 27, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Using linkhut to signal-boost my bookmarks

Mar 27, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Dyn you have idea for `dyn`?

Mar 25, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 25, 2025, 5:19 PM baby steps

Dyn async traits, part 10: Box box box

Mar 24, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 24, 2025, 7:00 PM baby steps

The Prospero Challenge

Mar 24, 2025, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

AI is useless, but it is our best bet for the future

Mar 23, 2025, 8:13 AM <antirez>

Intel 9 285K on ASUS Z890: not stable!

Mar 19, 2025, 4:35 PM Michael Stapelbergs Website

Rust in 2025: Language interop and the extensible compiler

Mar 18, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 18, 2025, 3:34 PM baby steps

Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

Mar 17, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

Mar 17, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Big LLMs weights are a piece of history

Mar 16, 2025, 11:56 AM <antirez>

Status update, March 2025

Mar 15, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software

Mar 10, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 10, 2025, 1:33 PM baby steps

Tips to debug hanging Go programs

Feb 27, 2025, 4:51 PM Michael Stapelbergs Website

View types redux and abstract fields

Feb 25, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Feb 25, 2025, 4:04 PM baby steps

Using Podman, Compose and BuildKit

Feb 22, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

Rust 2024 Is Coming

Feb 20, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Feb 20, 2025, 10:37 AM baby steps

Status update, February 2025

Feb 17, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

A holistic perspective on intellectual property, part 1

Feb 13, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A holistic perspective on intellectual property, part 1

Feb 13, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How I learned to stop worrying and love the LLM

Feb 10, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Feb 10, 2025, 3:56 PM baby steps

Reasoning models are just LLMs

Feb 9, 2025, 6:19 PM <antirez>

We are destroying software

Feb 8, 2025, 2:47 PM <antirez>

The case for sans-io

Feb 7, 2025, 6:53 PM fasterthanli.me

Falsehoods programmers believe about null pointers

Jan 30, 2025, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Preview crates

Jan 29, 2025, 12:00 AM Updated Jan 29, 2025, 10:26 PM baby steps

Join us to discuss transparency and governance at FOSDEM '25

Jan 23, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Join us to discuss transparency and governance at FOSDEM '25

Jan 23, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

FOSDEM '25 protest

Jan 20, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

FOSDEM '25 protest

Jan 20, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Guided by the beauty of our test suite

Jan 20, 2025, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Status update, January 2025

Jan 18, 2025, 10:00 PM emersion

No billionaires at FOSDEM

Jan 16, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

No billionaires at FOSDEM

Jan 16, 2025, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Fidget

Jan 8, 2025, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Catching up with async Rust

Dec 25, 2024, 7:30 AM fasterthanli.me

The RAM myth

Dec 19, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Announcing systemd v257

Dec 16, 2024, 11:00 PM Pid Eins

Thoughts on Rust hashing

Dec 12, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

From where I left

Dec 10, 2024, 4:38 PM <antirez>

Hello World

Dec 2, 2024, 2:18 AM Charlz' Realm

Highlighted code in slides

Nov 23, 2024, 5:40 PM fasterthanli.me

Any Python program fits in 24 characters*

Nov 17, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

The Rust Trademark Policy is still harmful

Nov 10, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Bringing faster exceptions to Rust

Nov 6, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

MinPin: yet another pin proposal

Nov 5, 2024, 12:00 AM Updated Nov 5, 2024, 5:20 PM baby steps

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

Oct 28, 2024, 12:00 AM untitled

The `Overwrite` trait and `Pin`

Oct 14, 2024, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 14, 2024, 3:12 PM baby steps

We built the best "Bad Apple!!" in Minecraft

Oct 10, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

ktls now under the rustls org

Sep 26, 2024, 9:10 PM fasterthanli.me

Making overwrite opt-in #crazyideas

Sep 26, 2024, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 26, 2024, 9:51 PM baby steps

Neurodivergence and accountability in free software

Sep 25, 2024, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Neurodivergence and accountability in free software

Sep 25, 2024, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Minecraft сравнивает массивы за куб

Sep 14, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Chatting in the 21st century

Sep 7, 2024, 9:25 PM - Yet Another Me

Chatting in the 21st century

Sep 7, 2024, 9:25 PM - Yet Another Me

WebP: The WebPage compression format

Sep 7, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

DebConf24 was fun! Security, curl, wcurl, Debian's quality

Sep 4, 2024, 12:00 AM Samuel Henrique (samueloph)

Rust for Linux revisited

Aug 30, 2024, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Rust for Linux revisited

Aug 30, 2024, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Division is hard, but it doesn't have to be

Aug 24, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

I sped up serde_json strings by 20%

Aug 20, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

The sentinel trick

Aug 13, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

You might want to use panics for error handling

Aug 13, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?

Aug 11, 2024, 12:00 AM untitled

State of the fasterthanlime 2024

Aug 7, 2024, 7:14 AM fasterthanli.me

У base64 есть неподвижная точка

Aug 3, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Panic! At the Async Runtime Shutdown

Aug 1, 2024, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Hash-Based Bisect Debugging in Compilers and Runtimes

Jul 18, 2024, 2:18 PM Updated Jul 18, 2024, 2:20 PM research!rsc

So you want to compete with or replace open source

Jul 16, 2024, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

So you want to compete with or replace open source

Jul 16, 2024, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Beating the compiler

Jul 12, 2024, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Debian's curl now supports HTTP/3

Jul 4, 2024, 12:00 AM Samuel Henrique (samueloph)

Raven

Jul 4, 2024, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Announcing wcurl: a curl wrapper to download files

Jul 3, 2024, 12:00 AM Samuel Henrique (samueloph)

More thoughts on claiming

Jun 26, 2024, 12:00 AM Updated Jun 26, 2024, 12:20 PM baby steps

Claiming, auto and otherwise

Jun 21, 2024, 12:00 AM Updated Jun 21, 2024, 11:21 AM baby steps

I thought I was smart enough to play with fire

Jun 20, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

A discussion of discussions on AI bias

Jun 16, 2024, 12:00 AM untitled

The Pagure Debian package is now orphan

Jun 13, 2024, 1:16 AM - Yet Another Me

The Pagure Debian package is now orphan

Jun 13, 2024, 1:16 AM - Yet Another Me

Announcing systemd v256

Jun 11, 2024, 10:00 PM Pid Eins

The borrow checker within

Jun 2, 2024, 12:00 AM Updated Jun 2, 2024, 12:33 PM baby steps

What the FTC got wrong in the Google antitrust investigation

May 26, 2024, 12:00 AM untitled

Writing a Unix clone in about a month

May 24, 2024, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Writing a Unix clone in about a month

May 24, 2024, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Unwind considered harmful?

May 2, 2024, 12:00 AM Updated May 2, 2024, 4:39 PM baby steps

Recovering garbled Bitcoin addresses

Apr 23, 2024, 12:00 AM purplesyringa's blog

Sized, DynSized, and Unsized

Apr 23, 2024, 12:00 AM Updated Apr 23, 2024, 8:51 PM baby steps

Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”

Apr 19, 2024, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Copyleft licenses are not “restrictive”

Apr 19, 2024, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Hello World

Apr 18, 2024, 12:00 AM Samuel Henrique (samueloph)

FDO's conduct enforcement actions regarding Vaxry

Apr 9, 2024, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

FDO's conduct enforcement actions regarding Vaxry

Apr 9, 2024, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Ownership in Rust

Apr 5, 2024, 12:00 AM Updated Apr 5, 2024, 4:22 PM baby steps

The xz attack shell script

Apr 2, 2024, 8:00 AM Updated Apr 3, 2024, 3:02 PM research!rsc

Timeline of the xz open source attack

Apr 2, 2024, 3:23 AM Updated Apr 3, 2024, 1:25 PM research!rsc

It's Free Real Estate

Mar 25, 2024, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

How web bloat impacts users with slow devices

Mar 16, 2024, 12:00 AM untitled

Playing audio files in a Pi Pico without a DAC

Mar 6, 2024, 10:52 AM <antirez>

Borrow checking without lifetimes

Mar 4, 2024, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 4, 2024, 6:29 PM baby steps

Face cams: the missing guide

Mar 2, 2024, 6:00 PM fasterthanli.me

Planning to orphan Pagure on Debian

Feb 26, 2024, 3:23 AM - Yet Another Me

Planning to orphan Pagure on Debian

Feb 26, 2024, 3:23 AM - Yet Another Me

Migrating my repositories to Forgejo

Feb 25, 2024, 4:51 AM - Yet Another Me

Migrating my repositories to Forgejo

Feb 25, 2024, 4:51 AM - Yet Another Me

Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderation

Feb 18, 2024, 12:00 AM untitled

Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowed

Feb 7, 2024, 12:00 AM untitled

Notes on Cruise's pedestrian accident

Jan 29, 2024, 12:00 AM untitled

Reverse-engineering the Synacor challenge

Jan 28, 2024, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?

Jan 25, 2024, 12:00 AM untitled

First Token Cutoff LLM sampling

Jan 12, 2024, 4:49 PM <antirez>

A re-introduction to mkosi -- A Tool for Generating OS Images

Jan 9, 2024, 11:00 PM Pid Eins

Translating blog posts with GPT-4, or: on hope and fear

Jan 9, 2024, 9:28 PM <antirez>

What I'd like to see for Async Rust in 2024 🎄

Jan 3, 2024, 12:00 AM Updated Jan 3, 2024, 11:01 PM baby steps

LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024

Jan 2, 2024, 10:56 AM <antirez>

How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT

Dec 30, 2023, 12:00 AM untitled

Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate

Dec 26, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate

Dec 26, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Go Changes

Dec 8, 2023, 5:00 PM Updated Dec 8, 2023, 5:02 PM research!rsc

Being Rusty: Discovering Rust's design axioms

Dec 7, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Dec 7, 2023, 1:46 PM baby steps

Go Testing By Example

Dec 5, 2023, 1:00 PM Updated Dec 5, 2023, 1:02 PM research!rsc

Project Goals

Nov 28, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Nov 28, 2023, 3:43 PM baby steps

Richard Stallman's political discourse on sex

Nov 25, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Richard Stallman's political discourse on sex

Nov 25, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Can I be on your podcast?

Nov 9, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Can I be on your podcast?

Nov 9, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Hunting a spooky ethernet driver bug

Oct 31, 2023, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

On "real name" policies

Oct 31, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

On "real name" policies

Oct 31, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Running the “Reflections on Trusting Trust” Compiler

Oct 26, 2023, 1:00 AM research!rsc

Idea: "Using Rust", a living document

Oct 20, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 20, 2023, 6:29 PM baby steps

Just paying Figma $15/month because nothing else fucking works

Oct 19, 2023, 4:50 PM fasterthanli.me

The origins of the Idle Scan

Oct 19, 2023, 10:40 AM <antirez>

Eurorust reflections

Oct 14, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 14, 2023, 4:47 PM baby steps

Going off-script

Oct 13, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Going off-script

Oct 13, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Easing tradeoffs with profiles

Sep 30, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 30, 2023, 2:56 PM baby steps

Polonius revisited, part 2

Sep 29, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 29, 2023, 10:43 AM baby steps

The forbidden topics

Sep 29, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The forbidden topics

Sep 29, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Empathy in open source: be gentle with each other

Sep 27, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 27, 2023, 3:50 PM baby steps

Polonius revisited, part 1

Sep 22, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 22, 2023, 8:32 PM baby steps

New Layout, and now using Hugo!

Sep 19, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 19, 2023, 9:30 AM baby steps

Stability without stressing the !@#! out

Sep 18, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 18, 2023, 3:04 PM baby steps

Hyprland is a toxic community

Sep 17, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Hyprland is a toxic community

Sep 17, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

AI crap

Aug 29, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

AI crap

Aug 29, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

C and C++ Prioritize Performance over Correctness

Aug 18, 2023, 4:00 PM Updated Aug 18, 2023, 4:02 PM research!rsc

Hello from Ares!

Aug 9, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Hello from Ares!

Aug 9, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The rc shell and its excellent handling of whitespace

Jul 31, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The rc shell and its excellent handling of whitespace

Jul 31, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Alpine Linux does not make the news

Jul 25, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Alpine Linux does not make the news

Jul 25, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Seriously, don't sign a CLA

Jul 4, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Seriously, don't sign a CLA

Jul 4, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

ASG! 2023 CfP Closes Soon

Jul 3, 2023, 10:00 PM Pid Eins

Cracking Electron apps open

Jul 3, 2023, 4:30 PM fasterthanli.me

Efficiently updating implicit in-order forests

Jul 3, 2023, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Social media and "parasocial media"

Jun 30, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Social media and "parasocial media"

Jun 30, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Burnout and the quiet failures of the hacker community

Jun 29, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Burnout and the quiet failures of the hacker community

Jun 29, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Reforming the free software message

Jun 19, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Reforming the free software message

Jun 19, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Throwing in the towel on mobile Linux

Jun 16, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Throwing in the towel on mobile Linux

Jun 16, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Higher-ranked projections (send bound problem, part 4)

Jun 12, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Jun 12, 2023, 1:06 PM baby steps

How to go to war with your employer

Jun 12, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How to go to war with your employer

Jun 12, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Using WireGuard to host services at home

May 23, 2023, 4:56 AM - Yet Another Me

Using WireGuard to host services at home

May 23, 2023, 4:56 AM - Yet Another Me

Ubuntu debuginfod and source code indexing

May 13, 2023, 8:43 PM - Yet Another Me

Ubuntu debuginfod and source code indexing

May 13, 2023, 8:43 PM - Yet Another Me

Giving, lending, and async closures

May 9, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated May 9, 2023, 3:13 PM baby steps

Burnout

May 1, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Burnout

May 1, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Machined Aluminum Pen

Apr 27, 2023, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Who should lead us?

Apr 24, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Who should lead us?

Apr 24, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A simple adversarial model for dual contouring

Apr 23, 2023, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Novo blog, novos links

Apr 21, 2023, 1:38 AM - Yet Another Me

Novo blog, novos links

Apr 21, 2023, 1:38 AM - Yet Another Me

New blog, new links

Apr 21, 2023, 1:26 AM - Yet Another Me

New blog, new links

Apr 21, 2023, 1:26 AM - Yet Another Me

rc: a new shell for Unix

Apr 18, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

rc: a new shell for Unix

Apr 18, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The Free Software Foundation is dying

Apr 11, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The Free Software Foundation is dying

Apr 11, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Writing Helios drivers in the Mercury driver environment

Apr 8, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Writing Helios drivers in the Mercury driver environment

Apr 8, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Fix my blog, please

Apr 3, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Apr 3, 2023, 12:38 PM baby steps

Thoughts on async closures

Mar 29, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 29, 2023, 3:41 PM baby steps

Must move types

Mar 16, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 16, 2023, 10:32 PM baby steps

Temporary lifetimes

Mar 15, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 15, 2023, 6:22 PM baby steps

To async trait or just to trait

Mar 12, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 12, 2023, 11:33 PM baby steps

When to comment that code

Mar 9, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

When to comment that code

Mar 9, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Trait transformers (send bounds, part 3)

Mar 3, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 3, 2023, 2:39 PM baby steps

Porting Helios to aarch64 for my FOSDEM talk, part one

Feb 20, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Porting Helios to aarch64 for my FOSDEM talk, part one

Feb 20, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Return type notation (send bounds, part 2)

Feb 13, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Feb 13, 2023, 4:14 PM baby steps

The Magic of Sampling, and its Limitations

Feb 4, 2023, 5:00 PM Updated Feb 4, 2023, 5:02 PM research!rsc

Async trait send bounds, part 1: intro

Feb 1, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Feb 1, 2023, 1:06 PM baby steps

Should private platforms engage in censorship?

Jan 30, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Should private platforms engage in censorship?

Jan 30, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Branch Predictor

Jan 25, 2023, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

My plans at FOSDEM: SourceHut, Hare, and Helios

Jan 24, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

My plans at FOSDEM: SourceHut, Hare, and Helios

Jan 24, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Setting a new focus for my blog

Jan 22, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Setting a new focus for my blog

Jan 22, 2023, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Rust in 2023: Growing up

Jan 20, 2023, 12:00 AM Updated Jan 20, 2023, 1:08 PM baby steps

Transcript of Elon Musk on stage with Dave Chapelle

Dec 11, 2022, 12:00 AM untitled

A Neat XOR Trick

Dec 10, 2022, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

I shall toil at a reduced volume

Dec 1, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

I shall toil at a reduced volume

Dec 1, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Codegen in Hare v2

Nov 26, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Codegen in Hare v2

Nov 26, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

In praise of Plan 9

Nov 12, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

In praise of Plan 9

Nov 12, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

In defense of linked lists

Nov 4, 2022, 6:46 PM <antirez>

Linux Boot Partitions

Nov 2, 2022, 11:00 PM Pid Eins

Notes from kernel hacking in Hare, part 3: serial driver

Oct 27, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Notes from kernel hacking in Hare, part 3: serial driver

Oct 27, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Brave New Trusted Boot World

Oct 23, 2022, 10:00 PM Pid Eins

TOTP for 2FA is incredibly easy to implement. So what's your excuse?

Oct 18, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

TOTP for 2FA is incredibly easy to implement. So what's your excuse?

Oct 18, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, October 2022

Oct 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, October 2022

Oct 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

In praise of ffmpeg

Oct 12, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

In praise of ffmpeg

Oct 12, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The Solid-State Register Allocator

Oct 4, 2022, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel?

Oct 3, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Does Rust belong in the Linux kernel?

Oct 3, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Notes from kernel hacking in Hare, part 2: multi-threading

Oct 2, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Notes from kernel hacking in Hare, part 2: multi-threading

Oct 2, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Chat log exhibits from Twitter v. Musk case

Oct 1, 2022, 12:00 AM untitled

Rust 2024...the year of everywhere?

Sep 22, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 22, 2022, 7:51 PM baby steps

Dyn async traits, part 9: call-site selection

Sep 21, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 21, 2022, 9:35 PM baby steps

What I meant by the "soul of Rust"

Sep 19, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 19, 2022, 2:15 PM baby steps

Dyn async traits, part 8: the soul of Rust

Sep 18, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 18, 2022, 5:49 PM baby steps

The phrase "open source" (still) matters

Sep 16, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The phrase "open source" (still) matters

Sep 16, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, September 2022

Sep 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, September 2022

Sep 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Futurist prediction methods and accuracy

Sep 12, 2022, 12:00 AM untitled

Notes from kernel hacking in Hare, part 1

Sep 7, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Notes from kernel hacking in Hare, part 1

Sep 7, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

In praise of qemu

Sep 2, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

In praise of qemu

Sep 2, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

powerctl: A small case study in Hare for systems programming

Aug 28, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

powerctl: A small case study in Hare for systems programming

Aug 28, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A review of postmarketOS on the Xiaomi Poco F1

Aug 25, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A review of postmarketOS on the Xiaomi Poco F1

Aug 25, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Come contribute to Salsa 2022!

Aug 18, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Aug 18, 2022, 11:47 PM baby steps

PINE64 has let its community down

Aug 18, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

PINE64 has let its community down

Aug 18, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, August 2022

Aug 16, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, August 2022

Aug 16, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Debuginfod is coming to Ubuntu

Aug 14, 2022, 5:00 AM - Yet Another Me

Debuginfod is coming to Ubuntu

Aug 14, 2022, 5:00 AM - Yet Another Me

From Oscilloscope to Wireshark: A UDP Story

Aug 11, 2022, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

How I wish I could organize my thoughts

Aug 10, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How I wish I could organize my thoughts

Aug 10, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Conciseness

Jul 26, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Conciseness

Jul 26, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Code review at the speed of email

Jul 25, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Code review at the speed of email

Jul 25, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The past and future of open hardware

Jul 25, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The past and future of open hardware

Jul 25, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, July 2022

Jul 18, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, July 2022

Jul 18, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Scrivendo Wohpe

Jul 17, 2022, 9:31 AM <antirez>

Writing Wohpe

Jul 17, 2022, 9:31 AM <antirez>

The Fediverse can be pretty toxic

Jul 9, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The Fediverse can be pretty toxic

Jul 9, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Porting Doom to Helios

Jul 1, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Porting Doom to Helios

Jul 1, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Many modes: a GATs pattern

Jun 27, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Jun 27, 2022, 2:00 PM baby steps

GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Jun 23, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

GitHub Copilot and open source laundering

Jun 23, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Introducing the Himitsu keyring & password manager for Unix

Jun 20, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Introducing the Himitsu keyring & password manager for Unix

Jun 20, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, June 2022

Jun 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, June 2022

Jun 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

What it feels like when Rust saves your bacon

Jun 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Jun 15, 2022, 11:34 PM baby steps

Async cancellation: a case study of pub-sub in mini-redis

Jun 13, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Jun 13, 2022, 7:15 PM baby steps

The Helios microkernel

Jun 13, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The Helios microkernel

Jun 13, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Writing a new XMODEM sender in 2022

May 31, 2022, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

bleh

May 30, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

bleh

May 30, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Google has been DDoSing SourceHut for over a year

May 25, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Google has been DDoSing SourceHut for over a year

May 25, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, May 2022

May 16, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, May 2022

May 16, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A Hare code generator for finding ioctl numbers

May 14, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A Hare code generator for finding ioctl numbers

May 14, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

When will we learn?

May 12, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

When will we learn?

May 12, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Implementing an SSH agent in Hare

May 9, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Implementing an SSH agent in Hare

May 9, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Fitting Everything Together

May 2, 2022, 10:00 PM Pid Eins

Testing my System Code in /usr/ Without Modifying /usr/

Apr 26, 2022, 10:00 PM Pid Eins

Announcing the Hare programming language

Apr 25, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Announcing the Hare programming language

Apr 25, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Coherence and crate-level where-clauses

Apr 17, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Apr 17, 2022, 4:31 PM baby steps

Status update, April 2022

Apr 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, April 2022

Apr 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Implied bounds and perfect derive

Apr 12, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Apr 12, 2022, 9:48 PM baby steps

In defense of simple architectures

Apr 6, 2022, 12:00 AM untitled

Running a Container off the Host /usr/

Apr 5, 2022, 10:00 PM Pid Eins

Announcing git snail-mail

Apr 1, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Announcing git snail-mail

Apr 1, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

dyn*: can we make dyn sized?

Mar 29, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Mar 29, 2022, 9:32 AM baby steps

It is important for free software to use free software infrastructure

Mar 29, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

It is important for free software to use free software infrastructure

Mar 29, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The Netherlands so far

Mar 24, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The Netherlands so far

Mar 24, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, March 2022

Mar 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, March 2022

Mar 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

It takes a village

Mar 14, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

It takes a village

Mar 14, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?

Mar 14, 2022, 12:00 AM untitled

Why am I building a programming language in private?

Mar 13, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Why am I building a programming language in private?

Mar 13, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Open Source is defined by the OSI's Open Source Definition

Mar 1, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Open Source is defined by the OSI's Open Source Definition

Mar 1, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Misidentifying talent

Feb 21, 2022, 12:00 AM untitled

Super Auto Sim

Feb 20, 2022, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Plaid is an evil nightmare product from Security Hell

Feb 19, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Plaid is an evil nightmare product from Security Hell

Feb 19, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, February 2022

Feb 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, February 2022

Feb 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Framing accessibility in broader terms

Feb 13, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Framing accessibility in broader terms

Feb 13, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Ray tracing with M-reps

Feb 11, 2022, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Dare to ask for more #rust2024

Feb 9, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Feb 9, 2022, 7:52 PM baby steps

Free software licenses explained: MIT

Feb 7, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Free software licenses explained: MIT

Feb 7, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter

Feb 2, 2022, 12:00 AM untitled

Cocktail party ideas

Feb 2, 2022, 12:00 AM untitled

Implementing a MIME database in XXXX

Jan 28, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Implementing a MIME database in XXXX

Jan 28, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Panics vs cancellation, part 1

Jan 27, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Jan 27, 2022, 8:55 PM baby steps

Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities

Jan 18, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Pine64 should re-evaluate their community priorities

Jan 18, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, January 2022

Jan 17, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, January 2022

Jan 17, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The RISC-V experience

Jan 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The RISC-V experience

Jan 15, 2022, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Dyn async traits, part 7: a design emerges?

Jan 7, 2022, 12:00 AM Updated Jan 8, 2022, 12:37 AM baby steps

Breaking down a small language design proposal

Dec 30, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Breaking down a small language design proposal

Dec 30, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

Dec 28, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects

Dec 28, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Brute-Forcing 22 Trillion Parameters

Dec 27, 2021, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Please use me as a resource

Dec 25, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Please use me as a resource

Dec 25, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Sustainable creativity in a world without copyright

Dec 23, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Sustainable creativity in a world without copyright

Dec 23, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

On commercial forks of FOSS projects

Dec 18, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

On commercial forks of FOSS projects

Dec 18, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The container throttling problem

Dec 18, 2021, 12:00 AM untitled

Status update, December 2021

Dec 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, December 2021

Dec 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Impressions of Linux Mint & elementary OS

Dec 14, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Impressions of Linux Mint & elementary OS

Dec 14, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Some thoughts on writing

Dec 13, 2021, 12:00 AM untitled

Some latency measurement pitfalls

Dec 6, 2021, 12:00 AM untitled

How new Linux users can increase their odds of success

Dec 5, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How new Linux users can increase their odds of success

Dec 5, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

What desktop Linux needs to succeed in the mainstream

Dec 5, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

What desktop Linux needs to succeed in the mainstream

Dec 5, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

postmarketOS revolutionizes smartphone hacking

Nov 26, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

postmarketOS revolutionizes smartphone hacking

Nov 26, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

My philosophy for productive instant messaging

Nov 24, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

My philosophy for productive instant messaging

Nov 24, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Major errors on this blog (and their corrections)

Nov 22, 2021, 12:00 AM untitled

Rustc Reading Club, Take 2

Nov 18, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Nov 18, 2021, 5:49 PM baby steps

I will pay you cash to delete your npm module

Nov 16, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

I will pay you cash to delete your npm module

Nov 16, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros

Nov 16, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros

Nov 16, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

CTCFT 2021-11-22 Agenda

Nov 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Nov 15, 2021, 3:19 PM baby steps

Individuals matter

Nov 15, 2021, 12:00 AM untitled

Status update, November 2021

Nov 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, November 2021

Nov 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Culture matters

Nov 8, 2021, 12:00 AM untitled

Breaking down Apollo Federation's anti-FOSS corporate gaslighting

Nov 5, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Breaking down Apollo Federation's anti-FOSS corporate gaslighting

Nov 5, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

View types for Rust

Nov 5, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Nov 5, 2021, 3:37 PM baby steps

Rustc Reading Club

Oct 28, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 28, 2021, 2:01 PM baby steps

GitHub stale bot considered harmful

Oct 26, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

GitHub stale bot considered harmful

Oct 26, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How SmarterEveryDay's 4privacy can, and cannot, meet its goals

Oct 22, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How SmarterEveryDay's 4privacy can, and cannot, meet its goals

Oct 22, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Willingness to look stupid

Oct 21, 2021, 12:00 AM untitled

What to learn

Oct 18, 2021, 12:00 AM untitled

Software developers have stopped caring about reliability

Oct 17, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Software developers have stopped caring about reliability

Oct 17, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Dyn async traits, part 6

Oct 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 15, 2021, 7:57 PM baby steps

Some reasons to work on productivity and velocity

Oct 15, 2021, 12:00 AM untitled

Status update, October 2021

Oct 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, October 2021

Oct 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Dyn async traits, part 5

Oct 14, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 14, 2021, 5:46 PM baby steps

CTCFT 2021-10-18 Agenda

Oct 13, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 13, 2021, 9:13 PM baby steps

Dyn async traits, part 4

Oct 7, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 7, 2021, 4:33 PM baby steps

Dyn async traits, part 3

Oct 6, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 6, 2021, 3:06 PM baby steps

How reflection works in ****

Oct 5, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How reflection works in Hare

Oct 5, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Dyn async traits, part 2

Oct 1, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Oct 1, 2021, 3:56 PM baby steps

Every Seattle Store

Oct 1, 2021, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Dyn async traits, part 1

Sep 30, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 30, 2021, 2:50 PM baby steps

The value of in-house expertise

Sep 29, 2021, 12:00 AM untitled

Developers: Let distros do their job

Sep 27, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Developers: Let distros do their job

Sep 27, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Nitter and other Internet reclamation projects

Sep 23, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Nitter and other Internet reclamation projects

Sep 23, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Authenticated Boot and Disk Encryption on Linux

Sep 22, 2021, 10:00 PM Pid Eins

Rustacean Principles, continued

Sep 16, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 16, 2021, 1:42 PM baby steps

CTCFT 2021-09-20 Agenda

Sep 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Sep 15, 2021, 1:45 PM baby steps

Status update, September 2021

Sep 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, September 2021

Sep 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

visurf, a web browser based on NetSurf

Sep 11, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

visurf, a web browser based on NetSurf

Sep 11, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Rustacean Principles

Sep 8, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

Next CTCFT Meeting: 2021-09-20

Aug 30, 2021, 12:00 AM Updated Aug 30, 2021, 7:30 PM baby steps

Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underrated

Aug 27, 2021, 12:00 AM untitled

Status update, August 2021

Aug 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, August 2021

Aug 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Tips for debugging your new programming language

Aug 11, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Tips for debugging your new programming language

Aug 11, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Police to begin regular, warrant-free searches of homes for child abuse material

Aug 10, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Police to begin regular, warrant-free searches of homes for child abuse material

Aug 10, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

proxy.golang.org allows many Go packages to be silently broken

Aug 6, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

proxy.golang.org allows many Go packages to be silently broken

Aug 6, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

In praise of PostgreSQL

Aug 5, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

In praise of PostgreSQL

Aug 5, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

My wish-list for the next YAML

Jul 28, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

My wish-list for the next YAML

Jul 28, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, July 2021

Jul 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, July 2021

Jul 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

CTCFT 2021-07-19 Agenda

Jul 12, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL'd software?

Jul 4, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Is GitHub a derivative work of GPL'd software?

Jul 4, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How does IRC's federation model compare to ActivityPub?

Jul 3, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How does IRC's federation model compare to ActivityPub?

Jul 3, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

You can't capture the nuance of my form fields

Jun 27, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

You can't capture the nuance of my form fields

Jun 27, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Foxtrot

Jun 25, 2021, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

A finger client

Jun 24, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A finger client

Jun 24, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

CTCFT Social Hour

Jun 18, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

Status update, June 2021

Jun 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, June 2021

Jun 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

I am not on Freenode anymore

Jun 14, 2021, 5:00 AM - Yet Another Me

I am not on Freenode anymore

Jun 14, 2021, 5:00 AM - Yet Another Me

CTCFT 2021-06-21 Agenda

Jun 14, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

Provided "as is", without warranty of any kind

Jun 14, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Provided "as is", without warranty of any kind

Jun 14, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The Wondrous World of Discoverable GPT Disk Images

Jun 10, 2021, 10:00 PM Pid Eins

I will be moving to the Netherlands

Jun 7, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

I will be moving to the Netherlands

Jun 7, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Build your project in our new language

May 30, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Build your project in our new language

May 30, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Edition: the song

May 26, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

Using io_uring to make a high-performance... finger server

May 24, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Using io_uring to make a high-performance... finger server

May 24, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How to write release notes

May 19, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How to write release notes

May 19, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

File Descriptor Limits

May 18, 2021, 10:00 PM Pid Eins

aerc, mbsync, and postfix for maximum comfy offline email

May 17, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

aerc, mbsync, and postfix for maximum comfy offline email

May 17, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, May 2021

May 16, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, May 2021

May 16, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Programming and Writing

May 14, 2021, 9:47 AM <antirez>

CTCFTFTW

May 14, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

Pinebook Pro review

May 14, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Pinebook Pro review

May 14, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

I try not to make unlikable software (and features)

May 8, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

I try not to make unlikable software (and features)

May 8, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

godocs.io six months later

May 7, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

godocs.io six months later

May 7, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

In praise of Alpine Linux

May 6, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

In praise of Alpine Linux

May 6, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

[AiC] Vision Docs!

May 1, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

Async Vision Doc Writing Sessions VII

Apr 26, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster

Apr 26, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Cryptocurrency is an abject disaster

Apr 26, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Recommended read: Why Lichess will always be free

Apr 23, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

🚀 Signal boost: Why Lichess will always be free

Apr 22, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Parsers all the way down: writing a self-hosting parser

Apr 22, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Parsers all the way down: writing a self-hosting parser

Apr 22, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Async Vision Doc Writing Sessions VI

Apr 19, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

Status update, April 2021

Apr 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, April 2021

Apr 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Async Vision Doc Writing Sessions V

Apr 12, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

The Developer Certificate of Origin is a great alternative to a CLA

Apr 12, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The Developer Certificate of Origin is a great alternative to a CLA

Apr 12, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Async Vision Doc Writing Sessions IV

Apr 7, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

What should the next chat app look like?

Apr 7, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

What should the next chat app look like?

Apr 7, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Go is a great programming language

Apr 2, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Go is a great programming language

Apr 2, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

My "shiny future"

Apr 2, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

Async Vision Doc Writing Sessions III

Mar 29, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

The world's stupidest IRC bot

Mar 29, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The world's stupidest IRC bot

Mar 29, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Async Vision Doc Writing Sessions II

Mar 25, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

The complete guide for open sourcing video games

Mar 23, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The complete guide for open sourcing video games

Mar 23, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Async Vision Doc Writing Sessions

Mar 22, 2021, 12:00 AM baby steps

We are building a new systems programming language

Mar 19, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

We are building a new systems programming language

Mar 19, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, March 2021

Mar 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, March 2021

Mar 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A debuginfod service for Debian

Mar 6, 2021, 5:00 AM - Yet Another Me

A debuginfod service for Debian

Mar 6, 2021, 5:00 AM - Yet Another Me

The corporate surveillance machine is killing people

Mar 6, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The corporate surveillance machine is killing people

Mar 6, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

To make money in FOSS, build a business first

Mar 3, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

To make money in FOSS, build a business first

Mar 3, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

It Can Happen to You

Mar 1, 2021, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

rayray

Feb 26, 2021, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

Gmail is a huge source of spam

Feb 25, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Gmail is a huge source of spam

Feb 25, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A great alternative is rarely fatter than what it aims to replace

Feb 21, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A great alternative is rarely fatter than what it aims to replace

Feb 21, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, February 2021

Feb 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How to make your downstream users happy

Feb 9, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How to make your downstream users happy

Feb 9, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Use open platforms — or else

Jan 28, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Use open platforms — or else

Jan 28, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation

Jan 20, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation

Jan 20, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Elasticsearch does not belong to Elastic

Jan 19, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Elasticsearch does not belong to Elastic

Jan 19, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Spooky action at a distance

Jan 19, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Spooky action at a distance

Jan 19, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, January 2021

Jan 15, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Unlocking LUKS2 volumes with TPM2, FIDO2, PKCS#11 Security Hardware on systemd 248

Jan 12, 2021, 11:00 PM Pid Eins

History will not remember us fondly

Jan 7, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

History will not remember us fondly

Jan 7, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Fostering a culture that values stability and reliability

Jan 4, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Fostering a culture that values stability and reliability

Jan 4, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A megacorp is not your dream job

Jan 1, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A megacorp is not your dream job

Jan 1, 2021, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

The more things change...

Dec 30, 2020, 12:00 AM baby steps

Against essential and accidental complexity

Dec 29, 2020, 12:00 AM untitled

Futureproof

Dec 28, 2020, 12:00 AM Matt Keeter

How to design a new programming language from scratch

Dec 25, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

How to design a new programming language from scratch

Dec 25, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Aqueles que se foram

Dec 22, 2020, 5:00 AM - Yet Another Me

Aqueles que se foram

Dec 22, 2020, 5:00 AM - Yet Another Me

godocs.io is now available

Dec 18, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

godocs.io is now available

Dec 18, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Looking back on 2020

Dec 18, 2020, 12:00 AM baby steps

Status update, December 2020

Dec 15, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Status update, December 2020

Dec 15, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Become shell literate

Dec 12, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Become shell literate

Dec 12, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Rotating the compiler team leads

Dec 11, 2020, 12:00 AM baby steps

Web analytics should at least meet the standards of informed consent

Dec 4, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

Web analytics should at least meet the standards of informed consent

Dec 4, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A few ways to make money in FOSS

Nov 20, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

A few ways to make money in FOSS

Nov 20, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

We can do better than DuckDuckGo

Nov 17, 2020, 12:00 AM Drew DeVault's blog

We can do better than DuckDuckGo