Stories by zdw

The Vacuum Tube’s Many Modern-Day Uses

Drawing on the new iPad

Strict structs

Howto: create your own time zone

Things Nobody Told Me About Being a Software Engineer

A highly secure OpenVPN 2.4 configuration in 2018

Benford's law

Disabling Intel Hyper-Threading Technology on Amazon Linux

Zeno scrolling

The Biggest Mistake Postgres Ever Made

16xAA font rendering using coverage masks, part I

Commands without magic

The Challenges Behind Rolling Out Security Updates to Your Docker Images

What a crane in the ass: Bug leaves construction machinery vulnerable

The AMD Threadripper 2 CPU Review: The 24-Core 2970WX and 12-Core 2920X Tested

Birdfont

More about auto-generated switch-cases

Why I like Haiku OS as a developer

Pathologies of Go package management

What I Learned from porting my projects to FreeBSD