Stories by birdculture

We're Going to Make Out Like Bandits

AI Data Centers and the Concentration of Wealth

Elfuse: Run ARM64/x86-64 Linux ELF Binaries on macOS Apple Silicon

Guix: Creating a Package from a Binary

I've been thinking about null pointers

Low Resource Computing 2026

A bunch of stuff I used to not know about K&R C

End-to-end encrypted secret sharing with the Web Crypto API

Hacker Fables – A satirical cyberpunk novella you can read as a man page

Job queues are deceptively tricky

Rebuilding Our Notification Platform for Timely Notifications

Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic

Git rebase -I is not that scary

Crates.io: Development Update

HTTP gets a QUERY method so complex searches can stop pretending to be POST

Don't Use aria-label on Static Text Elements (2024)

Closing a three-year-old issue using Rust arenas

Overhauled Homelab

Human Emacs

VINs: The Encoding Stamped into Steel

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