zdw
Tues Aug 31, 2010 2:12pm PST
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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!

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Monster Hunter: An Evolutionary Story
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Fri Feb 6, 2026 4:50am PST
It's All a Blur
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Thurs Feb 5, 2026 9:36pm PST
Git's Magic Files
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Thurs Feb 5, 2026 9:09pm PST
I'm in the Epstein Files
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Thurs Feb 5, 2026 4:05pm PST
OpenBSD on SGI (part 1 of 6)
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Thurs Feb 5, 2026 4:04pm PST
My review of the Tadpole-RDI Ultra Book lli from 25 years ago this month
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Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
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Thurs Feb 5, 2026 5:22am PST
When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
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Wed Feb 4, 2026 3:34pm PST
The F Word
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Wed Feb 4, 2026 6:23am PST
Link Shortening Tools Are High Risk
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Tues Feb 3, 2026 3:59am PST
The Coherence Premium
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Mon Feb 2, 2026 3:29am PST
Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong
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Sun Feb 1, 2026 11:57pm PST
Before ChatGPT-HW debate there were other "If students use X to do HW" debates
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Sun Feb 1, 2026 9:33pm PST
Margin Call
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Sun Feb 1, 2026 9:30pm PST
Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
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Sun Feb 1, 2026 3:03pm PST
How Apple Hooks Fifty Thousand Methods [video]
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Sun Feb 1, 2026 3:57am PST
Why Do Lawyers Want to Abolish ICE? [video]
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Sun Feb 1, 2026 2:31am PST
The Disconnected Git Workflow
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Sat Jan 31, 2026 4:34am PST
Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2025
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Sat Jan 31, 2026 3:24am PST
Learning New Tech with AI Assistance Might Backfire
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Thurs Jan 29, 2026 10:10pm PST
Backseat Software
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Thurs Jan 29, 2026 4:23pm PST
SRE Is Anti-Transactional
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Thurs Jan 29, 2026 5:40am PST
Why do RSS readers look like email clients?
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Thurs Jan 29, 2026 5:34am PST
Linux Kernel Project Continuity
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Wed Jan 28, 2026 5:02am PST
Trust them, don't trust it
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Tues Jan 27, 2026 10:50pm PST
Want to Reach Nirvana? Try a Colonoscopy
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Tues Jan 27, 2026 7:01pm PST
Supreme Court to consider whether geofence warrants are constitutional
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Tues Jan 27, 2026 6:59pm PST
Blocking Claude
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Tues Jan 27, 2026 1:03am PST
Why Intelligence Is a Terrible Proxy for Wisdom
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Tues Jan 27, 2026 12:42am PST
Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?
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Mon Jan 26, 2026 11:54pm PST
Is the Internet Hijacking Our Ambition?
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Mon Jan 26, 2026 10:54pm PST
Fixing retail with land value capture
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Mon Jan 26, 2026 10:29pm PST
I let ChatGPT analyze a decade of my Apple Watch data, then I called my doctor
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Mon Jan 26, 2026 8:26pm PST
How Over-Engineering Became the New Technical Debt in Distributed Systems
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Sat Jan 24, 2026 5:27pm PST
Welcome to Town Al-Gasr
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Sat Jan 24, 2026 5:11pm PST
git-pkgs: A Git subcommand that indexes dependency changes into a database
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Sat Jan 24, 2026 4:24am PST
Package management is a wicked problem
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Sat Jan 24, 2026 4:19am PST
Toilet Maker Toto's Shares Get Unlikely Boost from AI Rush
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Sat Jan 24, 2026 3:35am PST
The 2026 Linux Summer Games [video]
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Fri Jan 23, 2026 4:22am PST
Autodesk burns the village to feed AI and the Cloud – cuts 7% of workforce
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 10:41pm PST
How a band of engineers anticipated the cloud and remade the internet
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 4:42pm PST
Why there's no European Google? And why it is a good thing
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 4:42pm PST
A Protocol for Package Management
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 4:36pm PST
Humanizer: A Claude Code skill that removes signs of AI-generated writing
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Thurs Jan 22, 2026 4:13pm PST
Why Intel stopped making motherboards
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Wed Jan 21, 2026 4:27am PST
Libbbf: Bound Book Format, A high-performance container for comics and manga
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Wed Jan 21, 2026 3:55am PST
Migrating 13,000 Comments from Drupal to Hugo
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Wed Jan 21, 2026 1:07am PST
Agentic AI and the Mythical Agent-Month
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Wed Jan 21, 2026 12:34am PST
Google temporarily disabled YouTube's advanced captions without warning
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Tues Jan 20, 2026 9:57pm PST
Text Is King
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Tues Jan 20, 2026 5:16pm PST
Internet Archive's Storage
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Tues Jan 20, 2026 4:52pm PST
The Empathy of Instructions
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Tues Jan 20, 2026 4:50pm PST
Could ChatGPT convince you to buy something? AI gears up to sell ads
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Tues Jan 20, 2026 4:42pm PST
Controlling the Wizzard
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Tues Jan 20, 2026 4:39pm PST
What to do about students using ChatGPT to do their homework?
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Tues Jan 20, 2026 12:20am PST
AI is a horse (2024)
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Mon Jan 19, 2026 10:46pm PST
Frankenwine: Multiple Personas in a Wine Process
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Mon Jan 19, 2026 7:16pm PST
Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots
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Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:07pm PST
An introduction to XET, Hugging Face's storage system
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Mon Jan 19, 2026 3:27pm PST
Workspaces and Monorepos in Package Managers
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Mon Jan 19, 2026 3:21pm PST
The Discourse Is a Distributed Denial-of-Service Attack
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Mon Jan 19, 2026 4:15am PST
The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking
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Sun Jan 18, 2026 5:53pm PST
Quantum Computing for Lawyers
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Sun Jan 18, 2026 5:46pm PST
Repairing Monitor Cataracts on a Burroughs B21 / Convergent AWS Computer CRT [video]
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Sun Jan 18, 2026 5:15pm PST
Forecats – Weather forecast display with cats and Nano Banana
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Sun Jan 18, 2026 5:14pm PST
From Garroting Panic to Instagram: The Victorian Claw Glove
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Sun Jan 18, 2026 5:13pm PST
A new way to call C from Java: how fast is it?
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Sat Jan 17, 2026 4:00am PST
How Etsy Uses LLMs to Improve Search Relevance
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Sat Jan 17, 2026 3:46am PST
Building a Quake PC
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Fri Jan 16, 2026 4:50am PST
Podcasting Could Use a Good Asteroid
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 8:59pm PST
When programs assume the system will never change, episode 4: Stealing strings
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Thurs Jan 15, 2026 5:44am PST
How to Debug Your Life
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Wed Jan 14, 2026 8:00pm PST
Understanding ZFS Scrubs and Data Integrity
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Wed Jan 14, 2026 5:48pm PST
My Gripes with Prolog
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Wed Jan 14, 2026 5:47pm PST
How stagnant is CPU technology?
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Wed Jan 14, 2026 4:29pm PST
HTTP RateLimit Headers
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Wed Jan 14, 2026 4:20pm PST
Radicle 1.6.0 – Amaryllis
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Wed Jan 14, 2026 3:55pm PST
Artificial StupidIntelligence and Airport Sinks
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Wed Jan 14, 2026 3:50pm PST
Junior Developers in the Age of AI
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Wed Jan 14, 2026 3:08am PST
Wine 11.0
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Tues Jan 13, 2026 6:03pm PST
Stop Picking Sides: Manage the Tension Between Adaptation and Optimization
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Tues Jan 13, 2026 6:02pm PST
macOS Tahoe broke Finder columns view
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Tues Jan 13, 2026 3:27am PST
PawSense: Catproof Your Computer
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