Stories by zdw

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

The Squeal of Data

Rustgo: Calling Rust from Go with near-zero overhead

The Problem of Writing and Money

The Cloud Is Just Another Sun by Kyle Rankin at North Bay Linux Users' Group

The Cloud Is Just Another Sun

Too Many Cores

Give Me Back My Monolith

Graying Out

Rewriting Everything in Go

Pictures of 1969 and 70 Bell Labs Datacenter

Speedrunning Windows 95

The beginning of Public-key cryptography (1874)

Wood-Shader: A GLSL Shader to Model Finished Wood