Stories by birdculture

KeePassχ – A KeePassXC Fork

When 'if' slows you down, avoid it

PgBackRest is dead. Now what?

My favorite device is a Chromebook, without ChromeOS

Fake Notepad++ for Mac

Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer)

Screw You Realtek

The Lobster in the Hot Pot – OpenTentacle

Dependencies Are Replacing Knowledge

I Don't Vibe Code

PEP 661 – Sentinel Values, accepted 5 years later

Shigeru Miyamoto: Better Coder Than Most Without Ever Writing Code

Combat LLM spam by building a web of trust

Have Your Iceberg Cubed, Not Sorted: Meet Qbeast, the OTree Spatial Index

Inverse Sapir-Whorf and programming languages

The Three Durable Function Forms

GitHub Enshittification

The LLM Is Not a Junior Engineer

Contributor Poker and Zig's AI Ban

Android VPN IP Leak Even If Always-On VPN Enabled

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