zdw
Tues Aug 31, 2010 2:12pm PST
Karma:
131045
about
I'm a consultant, sysadmin, and programmer. I enjoy writing docs, troubleshooting, and working with interesting problems and people.

Hacker News is an online game you can play where your score is up in the top right corner and there's a leaderboard, and you get points by posting stuff and making comments people like.

I haven't had this much fun since Progress Quest!

submitted
Sun Aug 24, 2025 3:53pm PST
Molluscs of the Multiverse: molluscan diversity in Magic: The Gathering
@zdw
1
Sat Aug 23, 2025 4:46pm PST
AI, layoffs, productivity and The Klarna Effect
@zdw
1
1
35
Sat Aug 23, 2025 3:42pm PST
An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues
@zdw
6
Sat Aug 23, 2025 5:09am PST
Websites and web developers mostly don't care about client-side problems
@zdw
9
63
62
Fri Aug 22, 2025 5:24pm PST
Math Not Required (2023)
@zdw
8
10
31
Fri Aug 22, 2025 4:45pm PST
Punch cards and dollar bills
@zdw
10
Fri Aug 22, 2025 12:16am PST
Harper Evolves
@zdw
1
1
2
Thurs Aug 21, 2025 8:43pm PST
Rolling the dice with CSS random()
@zdw
10
31
135
Thurs Aug 21, 2025 4:27pm PST
The Core of Rust
@zdw
20
165
169
Thurs Aug 21, 2025 4:22pm PST
Kryptos K4: The Solution Auction
@zdw
3
Thurs Aug 21, 2025 4:55am PST
Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments That Failed to Replicate
@zdw
2
2
5
Wed Aug 20, 2025 5:10am PST
Grepcidr3: High performance search for IP addresses and CIDR ranges
@zdw
2
Tues Aug 19, 2025 3:42pm PST
Researching with Agents
@zdw
2
Tues Aug 19, 2025 3:19pm PST
Tag-Based Logging
@zdw
2
Tues Aug 19, 2025 3:18pm PST
What Happened to Egghead Software
@zdw
14
22
52
Tues Aug 19, 2025 3:17pm PST
2025 Optical Media Durability Update
@zdw
5
Mon Aug 18, 2025 7:53pm PST
A $300 Versaflo powered air respirator
@zdw
2
Mon Aug 18, 2025 3:08am PST
How not to check or poll URLs, as illustrated by Fediverse software
@zdw
6
Sun Aug 17, 2025 3:56pm PST
The ESP-Rainbow: Flatter Than a Speccy
@zdw
4
Sun Aug 17, 2025 3:06pm PST
Understanding the Efficacy of Phishing Training in Practice [pdf]
@zdw
2
2
5
Sat Aug 16, 2025 5:20pm PST
Faceclick: A lightweight Emoji picker with keyword search
@zdw
2
Sat Aug 16, 2025 5:07am PST
Braille Vision: A Portable Text-to-Braille Device
@zdw
11
Fri Aug 15, 2025 4:16pm PST
What Worked for Fund Investors? Pinching Pennies and Letting Winners Run
@zdw
2
Thurs Aug 14, 2025 3:52pm PST
Apple launching 'redesigned Blood Oxygen feature' on Apple Watch in the U.S.
@zdw
1
1
1
Thurs Aug 14, 2025 1:35pm PST
Teenage Engineering's free computer–2 case
@zdw
6
Wed Aug 13, 2025 5:30pm PST
Implementing a basic equivalent of OpenBSD's pflog in Linux nftables
@zdw
11
Mon Aug 11, 2025 10:39pm PST
Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers
@zdw
31
268
224
Mon Aug 11, 2025 6:25pm PST
Pico-286 Project – RP2040/RP2350 286 PC emulator
@zdw
5
Sun Aug 10, 2025 9:11pm PST
See why Lorde's clear CD has so many issues playing [video]
@zdw
2
Sat Aug 9, 2025 10:22pm PST
Improving Geographical Resilience for Distributed Open Source Teams with Freon
@zdw
1
31
Sat Aug 9, 2025 12:21pm PST
R0ML's Ratio
@zdw
6
13
77
Sat Aug 9, 2025 11:58am PST
Ratfactor's illustrated guide to folding fitted sheets
@zdw
19
32
217
Sat Aug 9, 2025 1:15am PST
An Engineer's Perspective on Hiring
@zdw
3
Sat Aug 9, 2025 1:13am PST
Self-Loathing AI
@zdw
5
Fri Aug 8, 2025 5:55pm PST
The Best Line Length
@zdw
20
51
42
Fri Aug 8, 2025 4:34am PST
Digital Foundry leaves IGN, now independent [video]
@zdw
6
40
93
Thurs Aug 7, 2025 5:28pm PST
Wait, Are We Not All Keeping Our PCs on Top of Our Desks?
@zdw
2
Thurs Aug 7, 2025 12:19am PST
Microsoft's Windows XP Crocs
@zdw
1
4
9
Wed Aug 6, 2025 3:56pm PST
TCP Header Diagram Cross-Stitch Pattern
@zdw
3
Tues Aug 5, 2025 7:29pm PST
A Danish zoo is asking owners of pets nearing life’s end to donate them as food
@zdw
9
14
20
Tues Aug 5, 2025 4:37pm PST
An Illinois bill banning AI therapy has been signed into law
@zdw
1
1
2
Tues Aug 5, 2025 4:29pm PST
How far can we push AI autonomy in code generation?
@zdw
3
Tues Aug 5, 2025 4:11pm PST
A SPARC makes a little fire
@zdw
10
17
96
Tues Aug 5, 2025 3:19am PST
The Anatomy of the Most Affordable Travel T-Shirt
@zdw
5
Tues Aug 5, 2025 3:10am PST
Cordoomceps – replacing an Amiga's brain with Doom
@zdw
1
1
7
Mon Aug 4, 2025 8:40pm PST
Regexp/O
@zdw
1
Mon Aug 4, 2025 5:10pm PST
Squashing my dumb bugs and why I log build IDs
@zdw
2
Mon Aug 4, 2025 5:03am PST
When Disney Went Digital
@zdw
2
2
22
Mon Aug 4, 2025 3:15am PST
ZEReader: Building a hackable open-source ePub Reader
@zdw
2
Mon Aug 4, 2025 3:10am PST
Ultra Ethernet: Reinventing X.25
@zdw
16
Mon Aug 4, 2025 12:49am PST
The ChatGPT sharing dialog shows difficulty in designing privacy preferences
@zdw
2
4
Sun Aug 3, 2025 9:35pm PST
Did Craigslist decimate newspapers? Legend meets reality
@zdw
14
48
52
Sat Aug 2, 2025 4:06pm PST
The X11 Security extension from the 1990s
@zdw
9
37
55
Sat Aug 2, 2025 4:02pm PST
Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
@zdw
26
248
272
Fri Aug 1, 2025 8:36pm PST
Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike
@zdw
3
4
58
Fri Aug 1, 2025 4:13pm PST
My doorlock and my digital sovereignty
@zdw
3
Fri Aug 1, 2025 4:51am PST
Roundest Regular Solid
@zdw
2
2
3
Thurs Jul 31, 2025 10:19pm PST
Age verification doesn't need to be a privacy footgun
@zdw
17
91
56
Thurs Jul 31, 2025 5:21pm PST
Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you
@zdw
10
113
141
Thurs Jul 31, 2025 2:43am PST
Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary
@zdw
2
2
12
Wed Jul 30, 2025 11:00pm PST
Spectral laser emission from rhodamine 6g infused Indian Peafowl feathers
@zdw
2
Wed Jul 30, 2025 6:21pm PST
Microsoft Has a Surface Laptop 'Smurface Edition' for Smurfs Fans
@zdw
2
2
4
Mon Jul 28, 2025 10:30pm PST
Living with an Apple Lisa [video]
@zdw
2
14
61
Mon Jul 28, 2025 10:25pm PST
(Only) half of senior VCS make at least one successful deal
@zdw
2
Mon Jul 28, 2025 9:38pm PST
Updated age ratings in App Store Connect
@zdw
3
Mon Jul 28, 2025 3:39pm PST
Even megastars like Venus Williams get the health insurance blues
@zdw
2
Mon Jul 28, 2025 3:28pm PST
Wayland Will Never Be Ready for Every Xorg User [video]
@zdw
2
Sat Jul 26, 2025 5:42pm PST
Controversial 'arsenic life' paper retracted after 15 years – authors fight back
@zdw
1
1
7
Fri Jul 25, 2025 11:06pm PST
FoundationDB: From idea to Apple acquisition [video]
@zdw
12
55
222
Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:50pm PST
AI and Trust (Schneier)
@zdw
2
Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:47pm PST
SRAM Has No Chill: Exploiting Power Domain Separation to Steal On-Chip Secrets
@zdw
3
25
71
Fri Jul 25, 2025 10:30pm PST
Ouroboros Water Cooled PC
@zdw
10
Fri Jul 25, 2025 2:48pm PST
SuperDuper 4.0b1 update, macOS Tahoe and 6M Spotlight index files
@zdw
2
Thurs Jul 24, 2025 8:57pm PST
Daily steps and health outcomes in adults: a systematic review
@zdw
1
1
2
Thurs Jul 24, 2025 3:47pm PST
Throughput Upgrade (With Train Illustrations)
@zdw
4
Thurs Jul 24, 2025 4:40am PST
Getting decent error reports in Bash when you're using 'set -e'
@zdw
6
49
166
Wed Jul 23, 2025 4:59pm PST
Base58 versus Base85 Encoding
@zdw
3
4
14
Wed Jul 23, 2025 2:14am PST
Huawei's Kunpeng 920 and TaiShan v110 CPU Architecture
@zdw
1
1
8