Stories by zdw

How To Put 30 Languages Into 1.1MB – hypher, a fast hyphenation library for Rust

A Rational Analysis of the Effects of Sycophantic AI

Patterns for Reducing Friction in AI-Assisted Development

Package Management Is Naming All the Way Down

Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers

Daily Driving GrapheneOS

Vendir: Declaratively vendor portions of Git repos, Docker images, helm charts

The Secretive Company Filling Video Game Sites with Gambling and AI

Two kinds of error

Inside the M4 Apple Neural Engine, Part 1: Reverse Engineering

Sites with a /Now Page

How Awesome? annotates GitHub awesome lists with repo stats, stars, last commit

Working with file extensions in bash scripts

How I'm Using Local Large Language Models

Dave's Book Review for the Art of Doing Science and Engineering

CSP for Pentesters: Understanding the Fundamentals

Why consumer choice is stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it

"Our programs are fun to use" – Beagle Bros

Cash issuing terminals

An interactive version of Xkcd 2347, the dependency comic

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