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A different way to play: BBS door front-ends (breakintochat.com)
LEAF: Distillation of State‑of‑the‑Art Text Embedding Models (mongodb.com)
A look at Rust from 2012 (purplesyringa.moe)
Optique 0.7.0: Smarter error messages and validation library integrations (hackers.pub)
memories of .us (computer.rip)
Powerset’s natural language search system (2012) (brenocon.com)
Misunderstanding that “Dependency” comic (bertptrs.nl)
Open Source Has Too Many Parasocial Relationships (pivotnine.com)
libfive: a software library and set of tools for solid modeling (libfive.com)
"Good engineering management" is a fad (lethain.com)
What are you reading and plan to read next?
Unusual circuits in the Intel 386's standard cell logic (righto.com)
Zork is now open source (blog.zarfhome.com)
How Slide Rules Work (amenzwa.github.io)
We found cryptography bugs in the elliptic library using Wycheproof (blog.trailofbits.com)
Zork I, II, and III go Open Source (opensource.microsoft.com)
Procedurally Generating Infinite Marble Runs (youtube.com)
50th anniversary of BITBLT (mastodon.sdf.org)
Pebble, Rebble, and a Path Forward (ericmigi.com)
My next chapter with Mastodon (blog.joinmastodon.org)
Digital Signals Theory (brianmcfee.net)
How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack (fabiensanglard.net)
How Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere (1998) (people.eecs.berkeley.edu)
fastmcpp: C++ port of the fastmcp Python library (github.com)
Zigbook – Learn the Zig Programming Language (zigbook.net)
Open Source Power (blog.muni.town)
SuperSonic - SuperCollider's Synthesis Engine in the Browser (sonic-pi.net)
When did people favor composition over inheritance? (sicpers.info)
your project fucking sucks (ficd.sh)
Don't Post Passive-Aggressive Webpages (dontpostpassiveaggressivewebpages.com)