Stories by zdw

Monitoring ECC memory on Linux with rasdaemon

Microbenchmarking AMD’s RDNA 3 Graphics Architecture

SDL2 common mistakes and how to avoid them

When is a PC not a PC? The PC-98

Jersey City Got to Zero Traffic Deaths on Its Streets

ChaCha20 Encryption Performance on Dec PDP-11 (2021)

Reconfiguring Replicated Atomic Storage

Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds (2022)

Amateur archaeologist helps crack Ice Age cave art code

Finally Making Use of Bpftrace

The different sorts of 'iconification' of windows in X

Spammy syscalls in strace dumps

ESP32-P4: High-performance MCU with IO-connectivity and security features

Libcpucycles is a public-domain microlibrary for counting CPU cycles

Excuse Me, Your Tie Is Unzipped

AMD’s Zen 4, Part 3: System Level Stuff, and iGPU

Changing firmware config that doesn't want to be changed

Potentiometers – Modifying Taper

How do you know when macOS detects and remediates malware?