Stories by zdw

Windows Ugly Sweater: Clippy Edition

Electric ferry uses a long extension cord [video]

Highly Available Transactions: Virtues and Limitations

Optimizations can have unexpectedly large effects when combined with caches

New two-factor authenticator: your Commodore 64

Frankenpi: Connect Raspberry Pi with a cheap FPGA board to an 8-bit ISA bus

The Fibre Optic Path

Area 5150, a Reflection

Split Your Overwhelmed Teams

Analyzing Carbon Dioxide levels while attending IETF-115 in London, UK

Getting it or not getting it, and then what?

Classic HCI Demos

AMD’s Zen 4, Part 2: Memory Subsystem and Conclusion

The Apple II Yellowstone Floppy Interface

Octobass: The lowest string instrument (2016)

10 years of FTL: The making of an enduring spaceship simulator

Accessibility: Px or Rem?

AMD’s Zen 4 Part 1: Front End and Execution Engine

Recent Progress in and around LibreSSL [pdf]

Is criticizing tech on political grounds valid?