Stories by zdw

Bluesky

RFC 8700 – Fifty Years of RFCs

The People's Web

It's Time to Start Writing

Only 15% of the Basecamp operations budget is spent on Ruby

Almost everything on computers is perceptually slower than it was in 1983 (2017)

OpenSSH Key Shielding

Exploring “Negative Latency”

Go on not so small hardware

Should you even bother loadtesting

What if personal computers were a mistake,?

The Amazon Premium

Customize Your Mac Pro

Things end users care about but programmers don't

Reforming CDA 230

Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses hash tables

Git tips for trunk-based development

Insecure by Design, Weaponizing Windows Against User-Mode Anti-Cheats

Using the same blogging software for 20 years

Instructions per cycle: AMD Zen 2 versus Intel