Stories by zdw

Uranus is losing its atmosphere because of its weird wobbly magnetic field

A Definitive Guide to Enabling Italics in Vim and Tmux

Radio-Astronomical Imaging: FPGAs vs. GPUs (2019) [pdf]

The more data you save on a flash drive, the lighter it gets?

Tale of OpenBSD secure memory allocator internals – malloc(3)

OpenBSD: Booting from an FFS2 Filesystem

Seven Stages of Open Software

Go, the Go Community, and the Pandemic

Yak Shaving – Swift Edition

Another look at two Linux KASLR patches

Markdown: “the shittiest markup language I have seen so far.” (2017)

Emergency Surveillance During Covid-19 Crisis

Lasts Longer (2.0)

When do you earn your pay?

New Crypto in Go 1.14

How do you keep a space station clean?

Understanding, detecting and localizing partial failures in system software

Eurogamer/Digital Foundry: Inside Xbox Series X: The Full Specs

Demonstrating that revocation checking is pointless

Why the choice of DNS over HTTPS server needs to be automatic (a sysadmin view)