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Stories by breadbox

Very Wrong Math (charlespetzold.com)
difficult ux in parking apps (cohost.org)
Paper: You Want My Password or a Dead Patient? (2015) (cohost.org)
Why is there a "small house" in IBM's Code page 437? (blog.glyphdrawing.club)
The Therac-25 Incident (thedailywtf.com)
INTERCAL: Practically Impossible (muppetlabs.com)
My Own Private Binary: An Idiosyncratic Introduction to Linux Kernel Modules (muppetlabs.com)
AI and the end of programming (bit-player.org)
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time (newyorker.com)
Foldable Words (bit-player.org)
Licenses Alone Do Not Govern Behavior in Open Source (michaelweinberg.org)
The Middle of the Square (bit-player.org)
Set me right on whether caring is even possible (rachelbythebay.com)
Rudimentary 3D on the 2D HTML Canvas (charlespetzold.com)
An efficient image format for SDL (studios.ptilouk.net)
Words for the Wordle-Weary (bit-player.org)
MathJax turns 3.0 (bit-player.org)
The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based LLMs replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con (softwarecrisis.dev)
Three Months in Monte Carlo (bit-player.org)
Questions About Trees (bit-player.org)
What Is A Scalar Field? [an explanation of fields, using only 1- and 2-syllable words] (forbes.com)
How I hacked CTX and PHPass Modules (sockpuppets.medium.com)