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unix / internet / open source software bodger
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2021 retro-link! http://www.horg.com/horg/ - Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group.

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heh i had completely forgotten about this website, it is great fun http://www.horg.com/horg/?page_id=3281

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https://b612-font.com/ - B612: the Airbus cockpit display font.

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https://morsmachine.dk/tcp-consensus - TCP is an underspecified two-node consensus algorithm and what that means for your proxies.

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https://morestina.net/blog/1976/a-close-encounter-with-false-sharing - A close encounter with false sharing in Rust.

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2022 retro-link! https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07798 - Gaussian blue noise.

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it’s “funny” how, when you say that something is unbelievably stupid (and fascist) the fascists want to learn more https://lobste.rs/s/ijafx5/sequel_structured_english_query#c_ykysws

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https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/wasmtime-and-cranelift-in-2023 - Wasmtime and Cranelift in 2023.

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2022 retro-link! https://github.com/martinvonz/jj - Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful.

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2021 retro-link! https://nnethercote.github.io/2021/12/08/a-brutally-effective-hash-function-in-rust.html - A brutally effective hash function in Rust.

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2021 retro-link! https://blog.can.ac/2021/03/22/speculating-x86-64-isa-with-one-weird-trick/ - Speculating the entire x86-64 instruction set in seconds with this one weird trick.

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heh look what i just found in an old .bashrc

export CVS_RSH=which ssh

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oh wow even better

case hostname in
fanf.eng.demon.net)
export CD_DRIVE=/dev/cdrom
;;
esac

that code is old enough to have completed a PhD without being remarkably precocious

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@alex in those days i was doing web server stuff rather than dns server stuff

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2022 retro-link! https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49481217/linux-kernels-is-constexpr-macro - Linux kernel __is_constexpr macro.

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https://perso.ens-lyon.fr/thais.baudon/icfp2023.pdf - Bit-stealing made legal: compilation for custom memory representations of algebraic data types.

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on my blog!

https://dotat.at/@/2024-05-13-what-ident.html

Unix version control lore: what, ident

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@kinnison i had a brief look at that earlier and wow, that’s a lot of engineering

there’s also git_version which seems fairly sensible

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@drj apparently there’s a slightly neater way to do that now https://blog.carlana.net/post/2023/golang-git-hash-how-to/

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@hank oooh i should have a proper play with that, it might fix a problem i have with the tarballs generated by github, thanks for the tip!

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@hank oh well that sucks, thanks for letting me know

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https://blog.nelhage.com/2010/02/a-very-subtle-bug/ - A subtle Python SIGPIPE bug.

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2021 retro-link! https://lemire.me/blog/2021/03/24/counting-cycles-and-instructions-on-the-apple-m1-processor/ - Counting cycles and instructions on the Apple M1 processor.

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on my blog!

https://dotat.at/@/2024-05-12-dnssec-policy.html

some miscellaneous unsorted appendices on BIND9 dnssec-policy

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and the one before that

https://mendeddrum.org/@fanf/112406384583334171

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2021 retro-link! https://www.adrianchernoff.com/project/skateboard-platform/ - Reinventing the automobile: the first skateboard platform for electric vehicles.

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@MarkDSimmons thanks! fixed in the archive https://dotat.at/:/KLY8G.html

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