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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Sat Jan 18, 2025 5:30am PST
Building a keyboard for a 1985 Casio FX-451 calculator [video]
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Sat Jan 18, 2025 4:37am PST
Thoughts on having SSH allow password authentication from the Internet
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Sat Jan 18, 2025 12:53am PST
A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband
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Fri Jan 17, 2025 8:41pm PST
Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle
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Protocol Churn
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Wed Jan 15, 2025 3:46am PST
Sega CD PCM Chip – An Overview
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Wed Jan 15, 2025 12:33am PST
Let the user help solve their own problem
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Tues Jan 14, 2025 9:37pm PST
Puget Systems Most Reliable Hardware of 2024
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Real Time Location Using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) (2019)
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Mon Jan 13, 2025 3:54pm PST
The Strangest Releases in MusicBrainz: Weird and Wonderful
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Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:44am PST
The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes
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Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:33am PST
Cascading OKRs: We can do Better
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Mon Jan 13, 2025 4:09am PST
Carnarvon's NASA satellite dish receives first signal in almost 40 years
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Sun Jan 12, 2025 7:42pm PST
Customasm – An assembler for custom, user-defined instruction sets
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Sun Jan 12, 2025 7:40pm PST
Random Thought on AI from Someone in the Real World
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Sun Jan 12, 2025 5:17pm PST
A System for the Sixties-and-a-Half: The Toshiba Visicom COM-100
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Sun Jan 12, 2025 5:14pm PST
The origin of the cargo cult metaphor
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Sun Jan 12, 2025 2:40am PST
Anchoring the FSF in Its Values
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Sat Jan 11, 2025 5:23pm PST
JavaScript hashing speed comparison: MD5 versus SHA-256
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Sat Jan 11, 2025 5:17pm PST
What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?
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Sat Jan 11, 2025 3:00pm PST
The Smallest 'Walkman'? [video]
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Fri Jan 10, 2025 3:53pm PST
Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)
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Thurs Jan 9, 2025 11:28pm PST
Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers
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Thurs Jan 9, 2025 10:44pm PST
IP-over-Toslink
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Thurs Jan 9, 2025 10:39pm PST
Coyote Time: What Games Can Teach Us About Forgiveness in Learning (2023)
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Thurs Jan 9, 2025 10:37pm PST
Soldering the Tek way
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Wed Jan 8, 2025 4:38pm PST
Digging into Driver Overhead on Intel's B580
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Wed Jan 8, 2025 4:14pm PST
CSS Wish List 2025
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Wed Jan 8, 2025 4:08pm PST
Building my own mechanical keyboard for the CoCo 1
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Mon Jan 6, 2025 10:13pm PST
Great things about Rust that aren't just performance
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Mon Jan 6, 2025 10:12pm PST
Analyzing Lion Cove's Memory Subsystem in Arrow Lake
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Mon Jan 6, 2025 4:24am PST
Dice, (De)Convolution and Generating Functions
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Mon Jan 6, 2025 4:19am PST
Hitting OKRs vs. Doing Your Job
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Mon Jan 6, 2025 4:07am PST
Dream Ride for Sega Dreamcast (and Emulators)
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Sun Jan 5, 2025 10:18pm PST
Kubernetes as a Distro
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Sun Jan 5, 2025 10:15pm PST
The Inevitable Future of Kubernetes: Why the Orchestrator Should Follow Linux
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Sat Jan 4, 2025 6:59pm PST
Stripping Emoji from a String
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Sat Jan 4, 2025 3:29pm PST
Reversing the Animal Crossing letter system (2018)
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Sat Jan 4, 2025 3:25pm PST
The intractable challenges of technical writing
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Sat Jan 4, 2025 3:23pm PST
NeuReality: A Server on a PCIe Card
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Sat Jan 4, 2025 3:21pm PST
I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time
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Fri Jan 3, 2025 10:51pm PST
Choosing an op-amp for your project
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Fri Jan 3, 2025 3:47am PST
Say Goodbye to Outdated Footer Years, Forever
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Fri Jan 3, 2025 3:34am PST
The Evolution of SRE at Google
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Thurs Jan 2, 2025 4:12pm PST
macOS has become more private
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Wed Jan 1, 2025 11:53pm PST
Scott Knaster Memoir: Occasionally Misses Expectations
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Wed Jan 1, 2025 7:01pm PST
Boxes.py – Create boxes and more with a laser cutter
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Wed Jan 1, 2025 6:59pm PST
Jj for Developing Go
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Wed Jan 1, 2025 5:20am PST
Tools Worth Changing to in 2025
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Tues Dec 31, 2024 1:53am PST
Missing the Forest for the Trees with Flame Graphs
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Tues Dec 31, 2024 1:41am PST
How to Monitor Linux Server Stats in Home Assistant
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Mon Dec 30, 2024 4:13am PST
Idiosyncra
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Mon Dec 30, 2024 4:09am PST
Using Copilot to write a raindrop audio synthesizer using AVAudioEngine
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Mon Dec 30, 2024 3:47am PST
Category Theory Illustrated
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Sun Dec 29, 2024 10:00pm PST
The Epoch System 10: The Pong to End All Pongs
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Sun Dec 29, 2024 4:11pm PST
What is a second?
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Sun Dec 29, 2024 3:03am PST
Google search hallucinates Encanto 2
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Sat Dec 28, 2024 10:25pm PST
What Happens to Relicensed Open Source Projects and Their Forks?
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Fri Dec 27, 2024 5:12pm PST
Complain and Propose (2014)
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IBM Power – What's Next?
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Fri Dec 27, 2024 3:36am PST
The Shell Is a Program
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Thurs Dec 26, 2024 11:33pm PST
ChatGPT search vs. Google: A deep dive analysis of 62 queries
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Battery-Electric Ships: Coming Soon to a Harbor Near You?
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Thurs Dec 26, 2024 1:01am PST
Ncurses-rs has been archived
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Thurs Dec 26, 2024 12:59am PST
Seconds Since the Epoch
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Wed Dec 25, 2024 3:58pm PST
Advent of OS/2
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Tues Dec 24, 2024 5:05pm PST
Debian's approach to Rust – Dependency handling (2022)
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Tues Dec 24, 2024 4:29am PST
A gotcha with importing ZFS pools and NFS exports on Linux
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Tues Dec 24, 2024 2:48am PST
Sipeed NanoKVM-PCIe
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Mon Dec 23, 2024 5:26pm PST
Creator economy platform costs
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Mon Dec 23, 2024 2:45pm PST
Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?
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OKRs for Evil and Good
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Sun Dec 22, 2024 10:18pm PST
Cognitive load is what matters
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What Happened to the Largest Tube TV? [video]
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Sun Dec 22, 2024 9:31pm PST
T2 24.12 "Sky's the Limit " – 37 ISOs for 25 CPU ISAs
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Sun Dec 22, 2024 9:24pm PST
When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it
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Sun Dec 22, 2024 9:22pm PST
After dropping Apple App Store, Disney+'s revenue dropped by 16% and Hulu by 27%
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RTIC: The hardware accelerated Rust RTOS
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Sat Dec 21, 2024 5:07pm PST
There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0
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Sat Dec 21, 2024 4:58pm PST
Go Developer Survey 2024 H2 Results
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Fri Dec 20, 2024 6:54pm PST
Career Advice for New Tech Workers in 2025
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Fri Dec 20, 2024 3:41pm PST
CISA: Do not use SMS as a second factor for authentication [pdf]
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Can AI models reason: Just a stochastic parrot?
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Thurs Dec 19, 2024 6:36pm PST
Frame Sockets Added to OpenBSD
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Thurs Dec 19, 2024 5:09am PST
The Better Daemons of Our Profession
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Wed Dec 18, 2024 5:24pm PST
Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely on Awkward Plastic Caddies?
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Wed Dec 18, 2024 3:15am PST
Blackmagic Ursa Cine Immersive
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Wed Dec 18, 2024 3:12am PST
"Founder Mode" and the Art of Mythmaking
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Wed Dec 18, 2024 2:27am PST
Ascending Mount FujiNet
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Mon Dec 16, 2024 11:24pm PST
Estimating projects sells them short (and that's okay)
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Acorn 8
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Advent of Code on the Nintendo DS
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Mon Dec 16, 2024 4:13pm PST
East Meets West: The Legend of Makai
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Sun Dec 15, 2024 2:59am PST
Tenstorrent and the State of AI Hardware Startups
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