Stories by zdw

Who Pays Taxes in America in 2019?

How to Learn Prolog by Watching Game of Thrones

The Moral Peril of Meritocracy

Cbmsrc: Original source code of various Commodore computers and peripherals

Using NSA Ghidra to hack a gaming keyboard

The Problem with ‘5 Whys’ (2016)

Let’s Talk About Capacitor Failure

DIMMer: A case of turning off DIMMs in clouds (2014) [pdf]

Duff's Device

Fixed Layout Prototyping – Hexagonal Electronics Breadboard

A shell script that deleted a database, and how ShellCheck could have helped

Plaintext Budgeting

Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it

UTF-8 History (2003)

Erasing SSDs with Blkdiscard (On Linux)

The mystery of my desktop that locks up when it gets too cold

The Squeal of Data

Testing at the Boundaries

ARM and Intel have different performance characteristics: a case study

Cloud Management with Prolog