The inner beauty of a Tesla Stropkov DS 3600 telephone from the early 1980s(blog.jgc.org)

106 points by jgrahamc 3 years ago | 71 comments

Breathing life back into a Minitel 1B with the Minimit(blog.jgc.org)

78 points by rcarmo 3 years ago | 16 comments

My primality testing code is faster than Sir Roger Penrose's(blog.jgc.org)

109 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 24 comments

Restoration of an IBM 701C Butterfly-keyboard laptop(blog.jgc.org)

100 points by jtwaleson 2 years ago | 35 comments

Two ways to use an LED as a light sensor with Arduino(blog.jgc.org)

134 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 61 comments

Rabbit hole: stumbling across two Portuguese punched cards(blog.jgc.org)

173 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 57 comments

Why is Jepsen written in Clojure?(aphyr.com)

415 points by manicennui 2 years ago | 210 comments

Kyle Kingsbury (Aphyr) blog post explaining why the Jepsen distributed-systems testing tool is written in Clojure, citing concurrency support and JVM interop.

Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering(jvns.ca)

343 points by tanelpoder 1 year ago | 85 comments

Julia Evans blog post explaining why Unix pipelines like tail -f | grep | grep appear stuck due to output buffering, and how to fix it.

Why don't more developers “use the platform”?(nolanlawson.com)

304 points by vinhnx 22 days ago | 318 comments

Nolan Lawson blog post examining why web developers often don't "use the platform" and rely on JavaScript instead of built-in browser features.

How we lost communication to entertainment(ploum.net)

651 points by 8organicbits 10 months ago | 365 comments

Blog post by Ploum arguing that online communication tools have been turned into entertainment platforms, eroding genuine communication.

Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography(words.filippo.io)

446 points by Bogdanp 11 months ago | 199 comments

Filippo Valsorda's blog post on using Claude Code to debug his new Go implementation of the ML-DSA post-quantum signature algorithm.

The GJK Algorithm: A weird and beautiful way to do a simple thing(computerwebsite.net)

596 points by arithmoquine 2 years ago | 56 comments

An illustrated explainer of the Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi (GJK) algorithm for determining whether two convex shapes overlap.