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2026 3

  1. lfsr math in pitfall!
  2. philosophy major
  3. my husband prefers his computer to me (1993)

2025 3

  1. saturday morning network outage
  2. skippy blair special concept
  3. apple's sillyballs (1988)

2024 8

  1. sneakernet
  2. the return of glfighters: porting a 23-year-old game to webassembly
  3. mac programming for dummies (1999)
  4. evading the wifi router ban
  5. slow iptables, reverse dns
  6. asymmetric routing around the firewall
  7. tcp connection timeout mystery
  8. some box under ike's desk (2013)

2023 8

  1. how does linux nat a ping?
  2. bram moolenaar's work
  3. tired of the rat race (2001-2003)
  4. running k3s on fedora coreos bare metal
  5. kubectl debug netadmin profile
  6. aretext 1.0 release
  7. ad-free ascii codes
  8. implement "find definition" in 77 lines of go

2022 21

  1. sprite animation toolkit (1992-1999)
  2. aretext 0.7 release, thinking about 1.0
  3. what a cello player said about my html (2000)
  4. incremental parsing in go
  5. floppy disk corruption (2001)
  6. aretext 0.6 released!
  7. echo livestream, cilium
  8. ipv6 home router experiments
  9. fuzzing the aretext markdown parser
  10. binary encoder (2003)
  11. why vim syntax highlighting breaks sometimes
  12. what's new in aretext 0.5?
  13. my homelab has 24 racks and 144 servers
  14. starcraft and networking in the 90s (part 2)
  15. starcraft and networking in the 90s (part 1)
  16. installing windows 98, windows xp, and starcraft in qemu
  17. aol i think (1999)
  18. fosdem 2022 lightning talk
  19. fuzzy find algorithm
  20. rewriting all the code
  21. joining the azure kubernetes team

2021 12

  1. gospelunk: quickly find definitions in go projects!
  2. project idea: go-symbol-search
  3. open source contributions (2012-2021)
  4. blog reboot
  5. remembering idevgames (2003)
  6. why start a coding side project?
  7. laptop case (2006)
  8. programming books (1998-2004)
  9. quicktime panorama (1999)
  10. the day i discovered vim (2004)
  11. tamagotchi over dial-up (1997)
  12. link to the past (1996)