Stories by zdw

Meaningful short names

Overcast 3: Design walkthrough

How CS50 at Harvard uses GitHub to teach computer science

Caavo, applies machine vision for consumer video device control

What happened to my vlan?

Visualizing memory accesses of an executable

SRE's review of Democracy

How Unix erases things when you type a backspace while entering text

Hunting for evidence, Secret Service unlocks phone data with force or finesse

Fear, American Style

The American Terrible

Why I'm disabling seccomp on Linux for the default acme-client build

The design of Poly1305

New zine: “Networking ACK”

PCMCIA History: From Laptops to CableCards

Corn turning French hamsters into deranged cannibals: research

How Unix erases things when you type a backspace while entering text

What we still use ASCII CR for today (on Unix)

How I manage my work and personal GitHub accounts

What if Uber kills off public transport rather than cars?