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mikas blog » Blog Archive » The mysterious XF86AudioPlay issue

I was getting “ is undefined” in the status bar of Emacs displayed every 2-3 seconds. Nowhere else I noticed any misbehavior or problems, and also couldn’t find any related log entries. It didn’t stop, though didn’t want to reboot my system to see whether...

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Tritium | Noroboto: Lying Fonts and Mitigation in Rust

Modern legal tech stacks in 2026 are Rube Goldberg machines of open-source and proprietary products from Word to LibreOffice, to python-docx and PDFium, to tesseract, node.js and dozens of UI libraries like SuperDoc, PDF.js and Office.js. Through those...

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End-to-End Procedural Generation in Caves of Qud (2019)

In this 2019 GDC Math for Game Developers session, Freehold Games' Brian Bucklew & Jason Grinblat do an end-to-end walk-through of the systems used to generate villages in Caves of Qud, which include their own histories, cultures, architectural styles,...

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WordPress 7.0

Build the navigation you’ve always wanted. Drop in a pattern, adjust it like a single block. Show the right content to the right screen. Connect the AI tools you already use. WordPress 7.0 hands you more of the controls, and trusts you to use them. Early...

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The Maintainer's Dilemma | spf13

Open source maintenance is breaking at scale. Can AI code review can help maintainers without breaking trust, judgment, or community.

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A Forth-inspired language for writing websites

I don't remember where the idea came from, but I decided that it would be cool if I could write websites using a stack-based language. Something like this: : h1 ( s -- ) "" emit . "" em…

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score by collisions, patch by panic

TLDR; Score severity by collision count. Researchers ship patches not just reports. Companies redesign for a world where the exploit lands before the patch. No magic. No vendor pitch. Just the playbook. The last post went further than I expected. NYT’s Hard...

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Steve's blog

I'm a member of the EFI team in Debian, and I've done much of the work for Debian to support UEFI Secure Boot (SB) in recent years. We have included that support for a number of releases now, starting back with Debian 10 (aka Buster).