Stories by treat-yo-self

Malware is harder to find when written in obscure languages

Trade Wars Are Strategic Sector Wars, review of Trade Wars Are Class Wars (2020)

Design of the Ouroboros packet network (2019)

Comrades, Let's Optimize the Surprising Rebirth of the Planned Economy [video]

Does the moon look "upside down" in the southern hemisphere?

America's National Security Wonderland

All about thread-local storage (2021, updated 02-2025)

A memory allocator with only 0,006% fixed overhead written from scratch [video]

Terence Tao on the Ongoing Process of "Enshittification"

I Paid $70 for an AI Boyfriend. It Was So Worth It

Big-Endian RISC-V

Cloudflare Topaz: formal verification to prevent conflicts in DNS configuration

The most thoroughly commented linker script (probably)

Historic ARM Presentation to Apple Computer – 1992 [video]

LLM Assisted Moderation

Japan declares victory in 'war' on floppy disks

What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?

Ian Clarke Breaks Down His Vision for a Decentralized Internet [video]

Wanix: A WebAssembly Operating and Development Environment

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