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Systems / Low-Level / OS

Xfwl4: The roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor (alexxcons.github.io)
A Simple fwd_diff<T> for Forward-Mode AD in C++ (solidean.com)
t: a concise language for manipulating text, replacing common usage patterns of Unix utilities like grep, sed, cut, awk, sort, and uniq (github.com)
The C-Shaped Hole in Package Management (nesbitt.io)
I made my own git (tonystr.net)
Reproducing a Tricky Bug in Minutes With a Custom Linux Scheduler Written in Java (mostlynerdless.de)
postmarketOS in 2026-01: monthly blog post reboot (postmarketos.org)
Spinning around: Please don't (siliceum.com)
For the love of Troff (2020) (schemamania.org)
Nixtamal: Fulfilling, Pure Input Pinning for Nix (nixtamal.toast.al)
Writing a Lisp JIT Interpreter with GraalVM Truffle (kyo.iroiro.party)
JuiceSSH - Give me my pro features back (nproject.io)
The state of Linux music players in 2026 (crescentro.se)
Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3 (bsky.app)
Porting DOOM to my WebAssembly VM (irreducible.io)
Reversing abstractions: an existential crisis (humprog.org)
Optimizing GPU Programs from Java using Babylon and HAT (openjdk.org)
Long branches in compilers, assemblers, and linkers (maskray.me)
Exploring Linux on a LoongArch Mini PC (wezm.net)
zerobrew is a Rust-based, 5-20x faster drop-in Homebrew alternative (github.com)
Hand-Crafting Domain-Specific Compression with an LLM (engineering.nanit.com)
Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale (maggieappleton.com)
Software patches in NixOS for fun and productivity (log.pfad.fr)
cppstat - C and C++ Compiler Support Status (cppstat.dev)
Stackmaxxing for a recursion world record (youtube.com)
Bouncy Ball will always bounce back (filipfila.wordpress.com)
Obvious Things C Should Do (digitalmars.com)
modetc: Move your dotfiles from kernel space (maxwell.eurofusion.eu)
One Number Repeated Forever: RNG in NSMB (2020) (roadrunnerwmc.github.io)
Tech behind bringing back games (youtube.com)