Stories by zdw

The Ubiquity Tradeoff

How Markdown took over the world

Palo Alto Crosswalk Signals Had Default Passwords

The Genius Whose Simple Invention Saved Us from Shame at the Gas Station

A Major Mail Provider Demonstrates They Likely Do Not Understand Mail at All

The C-word: What security people don't get about compliance

Vanilla: Software clone of the Wii U gamepad

Why the Renovate project uses GitHub Discussions as our triage process

Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP

Markdown Fixup: An Opinionated Markdown Linter

About Bootstrapping, and why it's important

Marcus Weighs in (Mostly) for LeCun

Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios

macOS 26.2 update enables 160MHz channels on 5GHz Wi-Fi networks

How to Be Less Awkward

Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?

AI and Research Papers

The eight ways that all the elements in the Universe are made (2021)

How will the miracle happen today?

Katsuhiro Otomo's Animation Work for Canon's T70 35mm Camera: Japanese Futurism

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