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Aurora Sprint 2026 - Hack on Embedded Nix in Iceland (aurorasprint.com)
Building a CPU in Factorio - From D-Flip-Flops to an Operating System (youtube.com)
Who Owns the Memory? Part 3: How Big Is your Type? (lukefleed.xyz)
Kelp: A New Streaming Log Parser Algorithm (stonebucklabs.com)
Compiler Engineering In Practice - Part 2: Why does a Compiler exist ? (chisophugis.github.io)
journal-guardian: JournalCTL Watcher with local LLM explanations for errors (github.com)
Using eBPF to load-balance traffic across UDP sockets with Go (vincent.bernat.ch)
A Practical guide to building a parser in Go (gagor.pro)
FreeBSD Home NAS, part 5: ZFS pools, datasets, snapshots, and monitoring ZFS health (rtfm.co.ua)
The Late Arrival of 16-bit CP/M (nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
LLVM Developers Meeting schedule January 2026 (llvm.org)
Stop Forwarding Errors, Start Designing Them (fast.github.io)
CheriBSD: FreeBSD that takes advantage of CHERI (cheribsd.org)
Signals vs Query-Based Compilers (marvinh.dev)
Audio dongles and the ghost of USB 1 (epenguin.imalone.co.uk)
win32 on macOS (2019) (winehq.org)
Who Owns the Memory? Part 2: Who Calls Free? (lukefleed.xyz)
FreeBSD Home NAS, part 3: WireGuard VPN, routing, and Linux peers (rtfm.co.ua)
Can I finally start using Wayland in 2026? (michael.stapelberg.ch)
Unsigned char std::basic_string<> in C++ (berthub.eu)
The Cost of a Closure in C, The Rest (thephd.dev)
A Basic Just-In-Time Compiler (2015) (nullprogram.com)
GNU indirect function (maskray.me)
Who Owns the Memory? Part 1: What is an Object? (lukefleed.xyz)
Ken Thompson on How A Disk Scheduling Algorithm Became Unix (youtube.com)
Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot (media.ccc.de)
Linux kernel security work (kroah.com)
FreeBSD Home NAS, part 2: Introduction to the PF firewall (rtfm.co.ua)
GPU Compilation with MLIR (stephendiehl.com)
Is tree-sitter good enough? (2022) (blog.jez.io)