Stories by birdculture

Java 27 Has Released

Coreutils – Rejected Feature Requests

Small Programming Tricks

Broken Windows, Abstractions and the Cost of Always Keeping Things Simple

Issues with unsigned long int vs. unsigned long long int on Linux vs. 32-bit OS

How can you not be romantic about Unix domain sockets?

Mergiraf: A Syntax-Aware Git Merge Driver for Various Languages and Formats

When the fractional part of a float fixes your shader

CHERIoT Provides Strong and Usable Isolation Without an MMU

Writing a Guix service from scratch, as a beginner

CUDA Tile (cuTile) first working port in Java

GPG.Fail Aftermath: Responsible Disclosure and Security in 2026 [video]

I Stabilized Never Type

Apple's Always-Listening Tech: A Nightmare of Constant Surveillance

Useful Things Agents Can Do That Are Not Writing Code

Bastion of the Turbofish

40ms Go GC stop-the-world pauses caused by swap

A rant about phishing: It's not the user's fault (and not DNS either)

Xkcd-Font: The Xkcd Font

ChiPass Release 2026.09.0

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