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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Game: Print Gallery Of An Artist, A brief exploration of recursive spaces
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The Yak Is Back
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Fri Apr 10, 2026 3:28pm PST
You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings
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Fri Apr 10, 2026 5:04am PST
Why I quit "The Strive"
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Thurs Apr 9, 2026 5:30pm PST
I Let Claude Code Autonomously Run Ads for a Month
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A Tour of Oodi
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Thurs Apr 9, 2026 5:20pm PST
Will Your Job Exist in Five Years: Are you coal, or are you a horse?
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Thurs Apr 9, 2026 5:19pm PST
An Interview with Pat Gelsinger
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Thurs Apr 9, 2026 1:05am PST
Giving LLMs a Formal Reasoning Engine for Code Analysis
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Thurs Apr 9, 2026 12:54am PST
You Can Just Print an Air Purifier
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Layoff Thinking
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Wed Apr 8, 2026 3:20pm PST
Investigating Split Locks on x86-64
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Tues Apr 7, 2026 4:09pm PST
Why Japan has such good railways
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Principles of Mechanical Sympathy
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People love to work hard
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Mon Apr 6, 2026 4:40pm PST
Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?
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Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards
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Sun Apr 5, 2026 4:20pm PST
OpenNMC is an open network management card platform for APC SmartSlot UPS units
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Sun Apr 5, 2026 12:42am PST
Shooting down ideas is not a skill
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What does Open Source mean?
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Fri Apr 3, 2026 5:00pm PST
Why stdout is faster than stderr? (2024)
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Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs
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Thurs Apr 2, 2026 12:39am PST
Why LLM-Generated Passwords Are Dangerously Insecure
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The beginning of programming as we'll know it?
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Wed Apr 1, 2026 12:45am PST
The JetStream 3 Benchmark Suite
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Tues Mar 31, 2026 5:43pm PST
Infinite Midwit
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Tues Mar 31, 2026 5:24pm PST
Googlebot: demystifying crawling, fetching, and the bytes we process
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Tues Mar 31, 2026 1:46pm PST
DCJ11Hack+ – DEC PDP/11 based homebrew computer
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Mon Mar 30, 2026 5:27am PST
The curious case of retro demo scene graphics
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Sun Mar 29, 2026 4:26pm PST
The rise and fall of IBM's 4 Pi aerospace computers: an illustrated history
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Sat Mar 28, 2026 5:01am PST
Aldus PageMaker on the Apple Macintosh
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Sat Mar 28, 2026 2:17am PST
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
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Fri Mar 27, 2026 3:31pm PST
Desk for people who work at home with a cat
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Fri Mar 27, 2026 2:44pm PST
Prompt Engineering Is Not. Engineering, That Is
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Fri Mar 27, 2026 1:00am PST
A Primer on Long-Duration Life Support
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Fri Mar 27, 2026 12:49am PST
App Store Connect analytics missing platform versions
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Thurs Mar 26, 2026 3:51pm PST
I Can't See Apple's Vision
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Thurs Mar 26, 2026 12:28am PST
Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
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Wed Mar 25, 2026 8:55pm PST
China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000
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Wed Mar 25, 2026 8:52pm PST
Supreme Court rules ISPs aren't liable for subscribers' music piracy
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Wed Mar 25, 2026 8:24pm PST
Why I Got Out Of The Gambling Business
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Wed Mar 25, 2026 7:27pm PST
PyTheory Is Awesome
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Wed Mar 25, 2026 7:14pm PST
Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
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Wed Mar 25, 2026 7:10pm PST
A Love Letter to 'Girl Games'
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Wed Mar 25, 2026 7:06pm PST
Model collapse is already happening
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Tues Mar 24, 2026 3:35pm PST
AgentBridge – Let AI Talk to Your Classic Mac
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Tues Mar 24, 2026 3:12pm PST
EMachines never obsolete PCs: More than a meme
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Tues Mar 24, 2026 1:22am PST
LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and Hints of a Universal Language?
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Tues Mar 24, 2026 1:17am PST
A mission NASA might kill is still returning science from Jupiter
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Mon Mar 23, 2026 10:37pm PST
IRIX 3dfx Voodoo driver and glide2x IRIX port
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Mon Mar 23, 2026 5:13pm PST
Intel Core Ultra 200S Plus Content Creation Review
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Sun Mar 22, 2026 9:18pm PST
Microbenchmarking Chipsets for Giggles
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Sun Mar 22, 2026 9:10pm PST
The Slow Collapse of MkDocs
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Sat Mar 21, 2026 8:58pm PST
How to attract AI bots to your open source project
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Sat Mar 21, 2026 8:56pm PST
SSH Certificates and Git Signing
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Fri Mar 20, 2026 7:20pm PST
BIO: The Bao I/O Coprocessor
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Fri Mar 20, 2026 2:29pm PST
How the world’s first electric grid was built
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Fri Mar 20, 2026 2:01pm PST
Open Community License v1 an unusual non-commercial license from 3D printing
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BeatPaxos: Can you break the consensus protocol?
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Tues Mar 17, 2026 10:25pm PST
How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are written (2020)
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Tues Mar 17, 2026 5:10pm PST
From a Law to an Ethic – a framework for individual digital responsibility
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Mon Mar 16, 2026 2:56am PST
Clock-accurate FPGA replacement for NES PPU
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Sun Mar 15, 2026 10:15pm PST
A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era
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Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today
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Sun Mar 15, 2026 10:02pm PST
The US Is Counting Traffic Deaths Wrong
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Sun Mar 15, 2026 1:42am PST
Why AI agents need to learn to read the room
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Sat Mar 14, 2026 1:45pm PST
Schedule meetings using the Pareto principle
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Thurs Mar 12, 2026 9:04pm PST
Safari web browser bugs: A year in review
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Thurs Mar 12, 2026 12:53am PST
On The Need For Understanding
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Wed Mar 11, 2026 9:23pm PST
If computers are the future why are users expected to be permanently illiterate?
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Wed Mar 11, 2026 2:55pm PST
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the Apple Watch [video]
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Wed Mar 11, 2026 3:14am PST
The story of one of my worst programming failures
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Wed Mar 11, 2026 1:23am PST
The tests are the code now
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Tues Mar 10, 2026 5:12pm PST
The evolution of Mac app window corners
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Mon Mar 9, 2026 11:08pm PST
M5 Max: Chiplets, Thermals, and Performance per Watt
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Mon Mar 9, 2026 10:29pm PST
Shipping Grayscale Photos at Small Scale
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Mon Mar 9, 2026 9:51pm PST
Video Conferencing with Postgres
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LLM-eliza – LLM plugin providing access to the ELIZA language model
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Sun Mar 8, 2026 3:05pm PST
What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential?
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Microscopes can see video on a laserdisc
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Sat Mar 7, 2026 9:47pm PST
Because Algospeak
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Sat Mar 7, 2026 4:28pm PST
Announcing New Working Groups
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Sat Mar 7, 2026 3:59pm PST
The Curse of the Everything Device
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Sat Mar 7, 2026 4:49am PST
TCXO Failure Analysis
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