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

TIL you can debug Nix builds interactively in the sandbox itself

So you want to keep your lover or your employee close. Bound to you, even. You have a few options. You could be the best lover theyve ever had, kind, charming, thoughtful, competent, witty, and a tiger in bed. You could be the best workplace theyve ever had, with challenging work, rewards…

Very well written post explaining the reality of gaming in the Global South and how the US-based media knowingly and unknowingly participates in its erasure.

A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004

Explore an archive of Doom ports showcasing how the game has been adapted to run on various devices, even those not originally intended for gaming.

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.

Today I learned that Firefox started as an act of protest from Mozilla engineers who hated the bloated product they were being forced to create

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!

The creator of One Million Checkboxes is back with another fun experiment.

Great write up on password hashing techniques and their pros and cons

Another great deep dive from the Netflix team on real-world problems they face as a primarily Java-oriented shop.

Great read on understanding the incentives behind software development.

Probably the most in-depth history of the events that led to the creation of Git by Linus. Great read!

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.