Stories by zdw

Reduce httpd web server bandwidth usage by serving compressed files

Letter from the Carnation Company (1987)

ISPs can’t find any judges who will block California net neutrality law

Python’s “type hints” are a bit of a disappointment to me

The Cloud and the Proverbial Boiling Frog

A cautionary tale from the decline of SourceForge

BGA socket allows RAM upgrades on SBCs

The Ever Loving Hell

Monitoring My Garage Door with a Raspberry Pi, Rust, and a 13Mb Linux System

The Applesoft Compiler (TASC): We have the source code, in a sense

The SMB protocol: All you need to know

Booting a Mac Studio from an external SSD, and what it doesn’t solve

How to talk to a local IPMI under OpenBSD

A few concrete arguments for e-bikes

The x86 architecture is the weirdo, part 2

Operating systems battle: OpenBSD vs. NixOS

Arstechnica Playdate Review

Automation is the serialization of understanding

Where Linux's load average comes from in the kernel