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Stories by GeoffWozniak

The Decline of Usability (datagubbe.se)
L 107 pts 37 comments by GeoffWozniak Apr 18, 2020 design Design / UX / Visualization thread
Massacring C Pointers (wozniak.ca)
L 83 pts 39 comments by GeoffWozniak Jun 26, 2018 bookc Systems / Low-Level / OSCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
if...then...else had to be invented (github.com)
L 77 pts 10 comments by GeoffWozniak Dec 13, 2020 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Stop Using Encrypted Email (latacora.micro.blog)
L 63 pts 73 comments by GeoffWozniak Feb 19, 2020 emailrantsecurity Security / PrivacyInternet / Digital Culture thread
Lessons from 6 software rewrite stories (medium.com)
L 60 pts 7 comments by GeoffWozniak Feb 19, 2019 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
The Danger of "Simplicity" (asthasr.github.io)
L 59 pts 13 comments by GeoffWozniak Nov 18, 2019 programming Programming (General) thread
It’s time for makefiles to make a comeback (medium.com)
L 53 pts 43 comments by GeoffWozniak Sep 5, 2017 programming Programming (General) thread
How Not To Release Historic Source Code (os2museum.com)
L 50 pts 3 comments by GeoffWozniak Apr 26, 2024 historical Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
A fork() in the road (microsoft.com)
L 50 pts 69 comments by GeoffWozniak Apr 10, 2019 osdev Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Has UML died without anyone noticing? (garba.org)
L 48 pts 43 comments by GeoffWozniak Apr 26, 2021 programming Programming (General) thread
Lisp Badge (technoblogy.com)
L 48 pts 1 comments by GeoffWozniak Jan 10, 2019 hardwarelisp Programming Languages / CS TheoryMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
"HTML email, was that your fault?" (jwz.org)
L 47 pts 0 comments by GeoffWozniak Sep 20, 2017 historicalperson Web DevelopmentCulture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
You don’t need reproducible builds (blog.cmpxchg8b.com)
L 44 pts 39 comments by GeoffWozniak Jul 28, 2020 security Security / Privacy thread
Why 536 was ‘the worst year to be alive’ (sciencemag.org)
L 42 pts 14 comments by GeoffWozniak Nov 17, 2018 science Science / Math / Physics thread
The magic of no maintenance (dimtion.fr)
L 41 pts 39 comments by GeoffWozniak Jul 25, 2023 programming Programming (General) thread
How does AI impact my job as a programmer? (chelseatroy.com)
L 40 pts 3 comments by GeoffWozniak May 28, 2024 practicesvibecoding AI / Machine LearningProgramming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
What is Systems Programming, Really? (willcrichton.net)
L 39 pts 49 comments by GeoffWozniak Sep 10, 2018 programming Programming (General) thread
I scanned every package on PyPi and found 57 live AWS keys (tomforb.es)
L 38 pts 1 comments by GeoffWozniak Jan 8, 2023 security Data / Databases / InfrastructureSecurity / Privacy thread
The Rise and Fall of Commercial Smalltalk (wirfs-brock.com)
L 38 pts 11 comments by GeoffWozniak Jun 2, 2020 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
The Harmful Consequences of the Robustness Principle (ietf.org)
L 36 pts 9 comments by GeoffWozniak Feb 13, 2022 programming Programming (General) thread
Print Debugging Should Go Away (robert.ocallahan.org)
L 36 pts 61 comments by GeoffWozniak Apr 27, 2021 debugging Programming (General) thread
22 years of Emacs (arjenwiersma.nl)
L 35 pts 38 comments by GeoffWozniak Mar 14, 2022 emacs Programming (General) thread
When you code, write down everything (swizec.com)
L 35 pts 12 comments by GeoffWozniak Jan 4, 2019 practices Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business thread
Leap second hiatus (fanf.dreamwidth.org)
L 34 pts 15 comments by GeoffWozniak Nov 19, 2020 networking Data / Databases / Infrastructure thread
C is too low level (blog.erratasec.com)
L 33 pts 17 comments by GeoffWozniak May 24, 2018 chardware Systems / Low-Level / OSMaker / DIY / Hardware thread
A response to the "C Is Not A Low-Level Language" article. ([lobste.rs discussion](https://lobste.rs/s/rnoybz/c_is_not_low_level_language))
The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015) (cacm.acm.org)
L 32 pts 6 comments by GeoffWozniak Feb 22, 2026 historical Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread
Lessons Learned (theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com)
L 32 pts 22 comments by GeoffWozniak Jan 15, 2024 practices Productivity / Career / Business thread
"Pull up a chair, lemme tell you a story." (marc.info)
L 32 pts 5 comments by GeoffWozniak Dec 10, 2015 security Security / Privacy thread
The future of education is plain text (simplystatistics.org)
L 30 pts 11 comments by GeoffWozniak Jul 23, 2017 educationunix Systems / Low-Level / OS thread
Perhaps as a spark to discussion, this was presented with the note [on Twitter](https://twitter.com/msimoni/status/889151505672142849), "when people say plain text, they really mean the Unix ecosystem. 'plain text' only seems 'natural' when you have kilotons of tooling for it."
How to speed up the Rust compiler in 2019 (blog.mozilla.org)
L 29 pts 4 comments by GeoffWozniak Jul 17, 2019 compilers Systems / Low-Level / OSProgramming Languages / CS Theory thread