Stories by birdculture

Childhood Computing

Flipping the bozo bit on flips the learning off

NixOS and Secrets

Open weights are quietly closing up – and that's a problem

Laptops all have built-in security tokens these days

COBOL Is the Asbestos of Programming Languages

Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage

Steering Zig Fmt

JavaScript Tail Call Optimization in ES2015: Unimplemented and Stack Issues

Bun's rewrite from Zig to Rust passes 99.8% of testsuite

The Gemini Protocol in 2026

I learned something about GPUs today

Read Programming as Theory Building

Nvidia releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 for experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler

Dirty Frag: Ongoing Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Since 2017

Onboarding Is a Hazing Ritual and You Call It Agile

Designing Microkernel IPC

Victory in FOIA Against Twelve South for PlugBug 120W Electrical Info

How we made Notion available offline

Jj v0.41.0 Is Out

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