I Still Use Windows 95 (2008)(web.archive.org)

169 points by zdw 3 years ago | 262 comments

Windows 3.1 in a Windows 95 Virtual Machine (2022)(geoffchappell.com)

56 points by Lammy 1 year ago | 22 comments

Curl removes experimental HTTP back end in Rust(daniel.haxx.se)

120 points by hnarn 1 year ago | 37 comments

Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers(crescentro.se)

457 points by sbt567 1 year ago | 63 comments

Blog post recounting how the author wrote a basic Linux USB driver for the Nanoleaf Pegboard Desk Dock using protocol docs from Nanoleaf support.

Why fastDOOM is fast(fabiensanglard.net)

638 points by wicket 1 year ago | 201 comments

Fabien Sanglard's blog post explaining the optimizations that make FastDOOM, a DOS port of Doom, run faster on 486-era PCs like the IBM PS/1.

Hypervisor as a Library(seiya.me)

29 points by ingve 1 year ago | 2 comments

USB for Software Developers: An introduction to writing userspace USB drivers(werwolv.net)

387 points by WerWolv 6 months ago | 46 comments

A blog post introducing USB concepts for software developers and explaining how to write userspace USB drivers, with C++ examples.

My first contribution to Linux(vkoskiv.com)

633 points by vkoskiv 1 year ago | 76 comments

A blog post recounting the author's experience upstreaming their first Linux kernel patch, fixing a hardware issue on a 2005 Fujitsu Lifebook S2110.

Making a VGA Driver in SystemVerilog(lukaswerner.com)

56 points by derHackerman 6 days ago | 15 comments

A student's blog post with interactive visuals explaining how they built a VGA driver in SystemVerilog on a DE10-Lite FPGA for a digital logic lab, including image display with transparency.

I'm addicted to being useful(seangoedecke.com)

519 points by swah 9 months ago | 265 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog essay on loving his software engineering job because he is driven by being useful, drawing on Gogol's The Overcoat.

Writing a basic Linux device driver when you know nothing about Linux drivers(crescentro.se)

457 points by sbt567 1 year ago | 63 comments

Blog post recounting how the author wrote a basic Linux USB driver for the Nanoleaf Pegboard Desk Dock using protocol docs from Nanoleaf support.

Self-hosting my photos with Immich(michael.stapelberg.ch)

609 points by birdculture 11 months ago | 341 comments

Michael Stapelberg's blog post describing how he set up Immich as a self-hosted replacement for Google Photos, covering hardware, installation, iPhone app, and backups.