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Windows 2: Final Fantasy of operating systems (ninakalinina.com)
My 2024 in review (paulox.net)
huffmunch: A practical generic lossless compression library for the NES or other 6502 platforms (github.com)
A tiny library for switches and sum types in Lua (github.com)
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite (avi.im)
How Multi-User Dungeons Taught Me To Code (tashian.com)
How do you decide when to buy a book?
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug (righto.com)
Intel's $475 million error: the silicon behind the Pentium division bug (righto.com)
What were your favorite books that you read this year, and why?
Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom (arstechnica.com)
James Gosling on Java - Historical Oddities & Persistent Itches (youtube.com)
An Overview of Virtual Machine Architectures (didawiki.di.unipi.it)
What are you reading these days?
what's some of your favorite software?
Merry Christmas, Lobsters! I've been spending lot of time complaining (in meat space) lately about crappy software I have to use, and I want to take a little time to focus instead on software that I quite like, seems well-made, and measurably makes my life better. [Paprika](https://www.paprika...
I Thought I Found a Bug… (os2museum.com)
IBM Christmas Virus (1987) (catless.ncl.ac.uk)
The big five publishers have abandoned literary fiction, putting it on life support (persuasion.community)
Cashing in on GIF by charging royalties (dfarq.homeip.net)
What are you doing? (jarvispowered.com)
Building Low-Maintenance Community Websites (anjackson.net)
How many links overlap between Lobste.rs and HN? (lobhn.skyshelf.app)
Often, there are the same links on the front pages of Lobste.rs and Hacker News. I was curious how many, actually? This small web app fetches the links from both sites (ignoring non-link "stories"), and shows the statistics and listings. Updates every 10 minutes.
My colleague Julius (ploum.net)
Debu.gs: Try Inferno without Installing It (debu.gs)
Deliver the Bare Minimum (btxx.org)
Ideas from "A Philosophy of Software Design" (16elt.com)
Synchronous Reading with Friends (rhotter.com)
After twelve years of writing about bitcoin, here's how my thinking has changed (moneyness.ca)
DOS APPEND command (os2museum.com)
Turing Machines (samwho.dev)