Miscellaneous collection of blogposts from people who had to debug some really strange computers.

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A historical publication written during the early 1940s amid World War II, "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" serves as a unique historical artifact that illustrates grassroots resistance efforts and the belief in the collective power of ordinary people during wartime.

Discover the unique design challenges of creating a spherical planet out of Minecraft-like blocks.

Very neat explanation of how databases work hard to keep your data safe. I was surprised to learn about the failure mode of reading from page cache twice and the database convincing itself that the data has been written out even though it really hasn't.

A great interview with Chris Person of Aftermath, who has over the course of the past 2 years has become something of a VHS decoding savant

Super interesting deep dive into why the Android calculator app is so much better than iOS', and the incredible amount of work Hans Boehm put into making it so. I have never been more interested in calculators than reading this post!

A great essay diving into an obscure font that is present all over New York City, and tracing its history all the way back to physical milling presses in the early 1900s. Both the information and its presentation are top notch

Oracle provides some incredibly powerful hardware for free and this post explains a very straightforward and easy to follow way to get set up with NixOS on their servers.

Highly interactive and beautiful view of some 100,000 books, it's hard for me to describe what makes it so great to me. Seeing is believing!

An ongoing mini-series documenting specific, often niche parts of the JVM. They're all pretty short and to the point, and the author encourages to treat them as chapters in a book as they reference each other quite often.

Simon Willison draws on his past experience working on event management websites to explain the real world problems that arise when you try to keep time for humans, along with actionable advice to minimize both your own and your users' suffering.

Great vulnerability research but the highlight is definitely the hand-crafted interactive mock ups of Google websites

Anything I say about it will ruin the delight of experiencing this page for the first time.

SwiftOnSecurity wrote this in 2014, about a fictional teenager named Jessica and how general purpose computing let her down. Must read for everyone in tech.

Super simple and straightforward guide to setting up backups on your NixOS machine via https://restic.net

Businesses prioritizing shareholder value over everything else seems to have become the norm, but I didn't know how this insane sounding behavior started and this is a great history lesson on it.