Concurrent Hash Table Designs

Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI

How Email Works

Going boldly into the COSMIC desktop environment

A Curl 2025 Review

(My) Second Year of the Linux Desktop (For Gaming)

Schrödinger's test: The /dev/mem case

Tieredsort: Header only, blazing fast (3-4x) C++17 sorting for numeric types

Rex: Safe Rust Kernel Extensions for the Linux Kernel, in Place of eBPF

An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker

Write code that you can understand when you get paged at 2am

Unix "find" expressions compiled to bytecode

When SIMD Fails: Floating Point Associativity

Faster Practical Modular Inversion

Automated Equality Checks in C++ with Reflection (C++26)

Bazzite: A Gem for Linux Gamers

Eventual Rust in CPython

Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers

Elixir: The Great WebSocket Hunt: 50k Connections, Zero Crashes

Put a ring on it: a lock-free MPMC ring buffer

Microsoft will finally kill obsolete cipher that has wreaked decades of havoc

Clouded Judgement 12.12.25 – Long Live Systems of Record

Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class

What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers?

Giant 3D map shows almost every building in the world

The story of Erdős problem #1026

Firefox 146 Now Available with Native Fractional Scaling on Wayland

Zig asserts are not C asserts

Stack Overflow: Challenge #14 Signal from Noise

Antifragile Programming and Why AI Won't Steal Your Job

Cursed circuits #2: switched capacitor lowpass

Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft

Flow Control: a programmer's text editor

Unredacted Magazine Issue 008 SEP 2025 [pdf]

Stacktower: An Accidental Deep Dive

Pouring Packages with Homebrew

Linus Torvalds vs. Ambiguous Abstractions: When Helper Function Hides the Intent

A Proposal for Simplified, Modern Definitions of "Object" and "Object Oriented"

Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they have an AI hardware prototype

Why I (Still) Love Linux ?

The Latent Role of Open Models in the AI Economy

We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs

Experimenting with Robin Hood Hashing

Introducing The Flux Keyboard

The Quality-Oriented Developer

Is C++26 getting destructive move semantics?

What's going on here, with this human?

Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away

Toward fast, containerized, user-space filesystems

Cloudflare Vibe SDK

Testing shows Apple N1 Wi-Fi chip improves on older Broadcom chips in every way

China's "intelligent mines" are getting rid of truck drivers and diesel fuel

In the A.I. Race, Chinese Talent Still Drives American Research

Inside Rust's std and parking_lot mutexes – who wins?

Digital Signals Theory

WhatsApp Census [pdf]

Science: The Endless Frontier (Vannevar Bush) (1945 !)[pdf]

Improving NAT traversal, part 2: challenges in cloud environments

A Month of Chat-Oriented Programming

Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS

Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS

C23: A Slightly Better C

The Life of a Packet in the Linux kernel: From write() to recv()

Bypassing the Branch Predictor

Whatever Happened to String Theory?

Automated Equality Checks in C++ with Reflection (C++26)

TCP, the workhorse of the internet

Gamification of Programming Languages

This Isn't a Battle

The price of dynamic memory: Memory Access (2020)

Why Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun are both betting on "world models"

Hilbert space: Treating functions as vectors

LaTeX, LLMs and Boring Technology

The folly that was Tandem Computers and the path that led me to NonStop

Problems with C++ exceptions