Stories by zdw

Easy Cryptographic Timestamping of Files

It's suprisingly easy to use gopher and HTTP without a proper client

Java: The Programmer Environment That Has It All

Database of Databases

Letter to 20 Years Ago

Just because it's there doesn't mean you should use it

Pikvm: Open and Cheap DIY IP-KVM Based on Raspberry Pi

“At present, it's not possible to make bootable copies of Big Sur”

In Unix, what do some obscurely named commands stand for?

Lattice FPGA Community Sourced board designs

The Intersection of Hard, Important, and Profitless Problems

Good Products

Modernizing the OpenBSD Console

Typography in Ten Minutes

Stupidity can be a plus in corporations – but not in software development

Plain-text email is a 'barrier to entry' for kernel development

Debian Janitor: 60k Lintian Issues Automatically Fixed

Micro-Optimizing .tar.gz Archives by Changing File Order

Baking those potatoes with microservices and vendors

Comparative Unsafety