Stories by zdw

Why V7 Unix matters so much

What every IT person needs to know about OpenBSD Part 3: That packet filter

The Snowflakes as Code Antipattern

10 years of whatever this has been

The Demikernel Datapath OS Architecture

IPC Buffer Sizes

A Short Review of Selling on Tindie

Chrome may start restricting requests to private networks

Vizio makes more money spying on people who buy TVs than it does on TVs

Optimizing Git’s merge machinery, #1

The bullet effects in Terminator 2 weren’t CGI

/dev/random – A New Approach

I ended up liking GNOME with the loss of one hand

Sound of the 2C33: The Famicom Disk System

I'm unsure of the security of simultaneous multithreading on modern x86 CPUs

Checking simple equations or inequalities with z3

Making an old USB printer support Apple AirPrint using a Raspberry Pi

ZFS Woes, or How ZFS Saved Me from Data Corruption

Reflections on Trusting ‘Trustlessness’ in the Era of “Crypto”/Blockchains [pdf]

Building a Stratum 1 Time Server for 16 bit DOS