Stories by zdw

UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025)

AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less

Passing Cloudflare Turnstile using two fingers

Serendipity: The Role of Luck in Your Life and Career

Making glass-to-metal seals for homemade vacuum tubes

Half-Life able to run on ReactOS

What Every Productivity App Trades Away [video]

Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks

The MilkV Jupiter 2/SpacemiT K3

The Last Surviving Japanese Porsche 912 Police Car

Reddit RSS feeds recent rate limiting and solution

Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan

240-MP is a retro VCR style front end for content on Raspberry Pi (on a CRT TV)

Flat Datacenter Networks at Scale

Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It

Why Isn't AI Taking Our Jobs?

The Seven Habits That Lead to Happiness in Old Age (2022)

Speech Plus Prose 2000 vintage speech synthesizer, as used by Stephen Hawking [video]

Why Are Linux I/O Devices Called TTY? [video]

Thoughts on starting new projects with LLM agents

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