Stories by jstanley

Distrobox: Use any Linux distribution inside your terminal

Why Are Things? (2020)

Tell HN: It makes no sense to ask whether we're living in a simulation

Tell HN: If the universe can be simulated, it doesn't have to be

The evolution of Unix facilities and architecture

Immediate Mode GUI Programming

Performance implications of immediate-mode GUI compared to a retained-mode GUI?

"I Contribute to the Windows Kernel. We Are Slower" (2013)

A Special Duplex

Choose Optimism

Watchmaking: Machining the Heart of a Watch [video]

Machine Elements Index

Escapement Mechanisms

Cycloidal Gearing Is Obsolete – A Personal View (2004)

Regular Expression Matching: The Virtual Machine Approach (2009)

Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple and Fast (2007)

Making a wooden grasshopper clock according to John Harrison's principles [video

Jaquet-Droz Automata

Automata: "Robots" designed hundreds of years ago [video]

I face investigation for terrorism

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