Stories by zdw

An Interview with Pat Gelsinger

Giving LLMs a Formal Reasoning Engine for Code Analysis

You Can Just Print an Air Purifier

Layoff Thinking

Investigating Split Locks on x86-64

Why Japan has such good railways

Principles of Mechanical Sympathy

People love to work hard

Why do Macs ask you to press random keys when connecting a new keyboard?

Winners of the 2026 Kokuyo Design Awards

OpenNMC is an open network management card platform for APC SmartSlot UPS units

Shooting down ideas is not a skill

What does Open Source mean?

Why stdout is faster than stderr? (2024)

Things I Think I Think... Preferring Local OSS LLMs

Why LLM-Generated Passwords Are Dangerously Insecure

The beginning of programming as we'll know it?

The JetStream 3 Benchmark Suite

Infinite Midwit

Googlebot: demystifying crawling, fetching, and the bytes we process

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