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- Quamina and Claude, Case 1
by zdw on 2/15/26, 3:52 AM, with comments
- From PDF to .LBR: Using Deep Think to Write Custom CAD Parts
by zdw on 2/14/26, 5:18 PM, with comments
- My Claude Code Toolkit
by zdw on 2/14/26, 4:12 PM, with comments
- A Programmer's Loss of Identity
by zdw on 2/14/26, 3:41 PM, with comments
- The wonder of modern drywall
by zdw on 2/13/26, 3:33 AM, with comments
- Results from the Advent of FPGA Challenge
by zdw on 2/12/26, 4:18 AM, with comments
- Motorola's Password Pill Was Just One Idea
by zdw on 2/12/26, 4:03 AM, with comments
- A few design decisions for a new chat platform
by zdw on 2/11/26, 7:56 PM, with comments
- AI-Driven SRE Tools. Please Stop
by zdw on 2/11/26, 4:41 PM, with comments
- macOS Tahoe no longer supports Time Capsules
by zdw on 2/11/26, 4:36 PM, with comments
- Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies
by zdw on 2/10/26, 3:59 PM, with comments
- Open-source network simulators and emulators in 2026
by zdw on 2/10/26, 3:46 PM, with comments
- How the Little Guy Moved
by zdw on 2/9/26, 5:30 PM, with comments
- Sandwich Bill of Materials
by zdw on 2/8/26, 11:15 PM, with comments
- The purpose of Continuous Integration is to fail
by zdw on 2/7/26, 4:07 PM, with comments
- Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth
by zdw on 2/7/26, 3:56 PM, with comments
- Dependency Resolution Methods
by zdw on 2/7/26, 3:19 PM, with comments
- Monster Hunter: An Evolutionary Story
by zdw on 2/6/26, 4:50 AM, with comments
- It's all a blur
by zdw on 2/6/26, 4:50 AM, with comments
- Git's Magic Files
by zdw on 2/5/26, 9:36 PM, with comments
- I'm in the Epstein Files
by zdw on 2/5/26, 9:09 PM, with comments
- OpenBSD on SGI (part 1 of 6)
by zdw on 2/5/26, 4:05 PM, with comments
- My review of the Tadpole-RDI Ultra Book lli from 25 years ago this month
by zdw on 2/5/26, 4:04 PM, with comments
- Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation
by zdw on 2/5/26, 5:23 AM, with comments
- When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
by zdw on 2/5/26, 5:22 AM, with comments
- The F Word
by zdw on 2/4/26, 3:34 PM, with comments
- Link Shortening Tools Are High Risk
by zdw on 2/4/26, 6:23 AM, with comments
- The Coherence Premium
by zdw on 2/3/26, 3:59 AM, with comments
- Apple's MacBook Pro DFU port documentation is wrong
by zdw on 2/2/26, 3:29 AM, with comments
- Before ChatGPT-HW debate there were other "If students use X to do HW" debates
by zdw on 2/1/26, 11:57 PM, with comments
- Margin Call
by zdw on 2/1/26, 9:33 PM, with comments
- Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle
by zdw on 2/1/26, 9:30 PM, with comments
- How Apple Hooks Fifty Thousand Methods [video]
by zdw on 2/1/26, 3:03 PM, with comments
- Why Do Lawyers Want to Abolish ICE? [video]
by zdw on 2/1/26, 3:57 AM, with comments
- The Disconnected Git Workflow
by zdw on 2/1/26, 2:31 AM, with comments