Stories by zdw

How does the process title works?

That time the Word team hired somebody who never showed up

Textbeat: text music sequencer and midi shell with vim playback

Hard state soft state confusion

Libdivide is an open source library for optimizing integer division

The (broken) economics of OSS

Who pays to educate developers?

ARM – any Tier-1 *BSD options?

NetNewsWire Comes Home

Unbrittle Events

I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports

The early history of Windows file attributes

What's Happening with RFID Blocking Gear?

Band Pass Filter and Power Amplifier for Simple HF Data

An illustration of why it's hard to port outside code into the Linux kernel

Adding a pipe operator to Python

A little bit of the one-time MacOS version still lingers in ZFS

Private peering issues and focusing on the end user

Decoding an SSH Key from PEM to BASE64 to HEX to ASN.1 to Prime Decimal Numbers

Self-fertilizing indigenous Mexican corn pulls nitrogen directly from the air