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The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation - The Old New Thing
Offensive content in the eyes of a software engineer.
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Correlated randomness in Slay the Spire 2
Here are three true statements about the game of Slay the Spire 2 (in single player): If you pick Neow's Bones in the Underdocks, the random curse is ~54% likely to be Debt.* It is impossible to receive Rebound from the Trash Heap event. Your first fight is...
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What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes
So I've been job hunting lately. Reading job postings, doing interviews, talking to engineering teams at like a dozen companies. And I noticed...
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Banned Book Library
OverviewA long while back I had an idea to hack a WiFi smart light bulb to do something more useful to me. Actually, I had a few different ideas of things to do with them. One of these ideas was to mo…
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inessential: NetNewsWire Status
It’s been a year since I retired — my last working day was June 6, 2025 — and I like being able to say that I’ve spent the year adding nothing, not one penny, to shareholder value. 🌴
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Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs
AMD's stripping of TSME from consumer CPUs appears to be a deliberate, covert move.
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GitHub - ypsvlq/wio: windowed i/o
windowed i/o. Contribute to ypsvlq/wio development by creating an account on GitHub.
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savearoundtrip
Sites send Alt-Svc: h3 but publish no HTTPS DNS record, so browsers waste a round trip before using HTTP/3. Publish an HTTPS RR (RFC 9460) and connect to QUIC on the first connection.
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Boot Naked Linux · ... and another thing ...
When I was a kid, computers weren’t coddled and left running 24/7, when you were done with them you switched them off, and when you wanted them again you just switched them on and within a second or so they’d be loading whatever was in their disk drive.