Stories by zdw

Mosquitoes Are a Choice

My Ansible Plugin Had a Jail Escape: CVE-2026-55074

The "C" Word

The science of Monkey Island: can grog dissolve a metal mug that fast?

Infinite Mac: Snow and a/UX

Academic Doomerism

Humanism Without (All) Humans

Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob

Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side

Retro emojis: We had 'em in the 80s and 90s

The LLMs Yearn for the Spines

The Cure for Cancer Is Not a Pure Math Benchmark

The Lamentable Later Life of Lemmings

What Little Hope Remains

Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA

Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive on Intel processors

The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents

Fixing an NZXT Signal 4K30 part 2: the green/pink video bug

TailTalk: A modern async user space AppleTalk stack with Rust and Tokio

Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine

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