Stories by zdw

Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad

How to back up your password manager

Rav1e: The fastest and safest AV1 encoder, written in rust

Operating Systems as Dumb Pipes

With sudo, complex argument validation is best in cover scripts

F. D. C. Willard

Why I still use Medium (2019)

NetBSD 9.0

Simlish: An improv game gave us the most recognizable language in gaming

Initial Experiments with the Loongson Pi 2K

The /bin versus /usr split and diskless workstations

OpenSSH 8.2 release, deprecates SHA-1

NetBSD Fundraising 2020

Reproducible Builds in January 2020

You can't delegate a ZFS administration permission to delete only snapshosts

Why Must Systems Be Operated? (2016)

A Go Module Testbed

Checksumming in filesystems, and why ZFS is doing it right

Naming Things

Proto Retro Ripper