Judson's Last Ride

Swap tables, flash-friendly swap, swap_ops, and more

Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date"

Old 86-DOS source code dates back to the time before Microsoft bought it.

My I3-Emacs Integration

I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph

Artist Doug MacDowell spends 50 hours hand drawing data visualizations using vintage drafting techniques, rulers, ink, and lettering tools.

Sales and Dungeons: Thermal printer TTRPG utility

Thermal Printer as D&D / TTRPG Utility

Amazon Web Services – Four Years and Out

Today marks four years since I joined AWS. My last day will be Friday.\nI have to say being fired from AWS is actually a relief. There have been a lot of changes to the company since I joined in 2022, and the company I wanted to work for is no longer the same company.\nThis past year, while I was doing my best to make AWS play nice in open source communities, there were two main drivers making me unhappy with my job: organizational change and the acceleration of the focus on Generative AI.\n

On The <dl> (2021)

The semantics you didn’t know you needed.

Time to talk about my writerdeck

The Art of Money Getting

My two-part desk setup (2025)

How I turned a single long desk into a digital side for work and an analog side for reading, writing, and building LEGO with the kids.

Wake up! 16b

The C64 Dead Test Font

(Now Go Bang!) The C64 Dead Test Font: A deep dive into the font of the “Dead Test” diagnostic cartridge of the C64, including an Easter egg, a look into the implementation, and, finally, some Commodore 8-bit character ROMs for download.

Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?

All Lean Books and Where to Find Them

Respecting traditions of the city I&#39;m currently in This could have been a classic &quot;Awesome Lean&quot; repo (like this), however I&#39;d much prefer reading subjective o...

Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links

The loophole allows spammers and scammers to send emails from a legitimate Microsoft email address typically used for sending genuine account alerts.

Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI

Alexander Grothendieck Revolutionized 20th-Century Mathematics

Grothendieck is revered in the world of math; outside of it, he’s known for his unusual life, if he’s known at all. But what were his actual mathematical contributions?

Silk: Open-source cooperative fiber scheduler

Fast stackful fibers with a NUMA-aware work-stealing scheduler - ClickHouse/silk

Converting an Integer to a Decimal String in Under Two Nanoseconds