Stories by zdw

The Game Engine that would not have been made without Rust

Can LIGO Detect Daylight Savings Time?

Macintosh System 7 Ported To x86 With LLM Help in 3 days

Eel-evation, deep weirdness in a slinky state

Ocrs: Rust library and CLI tool for OCR (extracting text from images)

How has mathematics gotten so abstract?

Greenland is a beautiful nightmare

AI coding agents rely too much on fallbacks

Pushing Dial-Up Internet to the Extreme (Multilink PPP over 56k modems) [video]

Game over for pure LLMs. Even Rich Sutton has gotten off the bus

The Digital Markets Act: time for a reset

Apple Demands EU Repeal the Digital Markets Act

C2PA Investigations

Safari 26 changed address bar copying

Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

Requiem for a Hash Function, or: How I learned to love package maphash

Athlon 64: How AMD turned the tables on Intel

SwiNOG #40 – PTP in WANs [video]

Libghostty Is Coming

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