Why I love NixOS(birkey.co)

411 points by birkey 7 months ago | 277 comments

A personal blog post explaining why the author loves NixOS, focusing on the deterministic, reproducible Nix package manager rather than the Linux distro itself.

Decompiling Xbox games using PDB debug info(i686.me)

88 points by orange_redditor 9 months ago | 12 comments

A Modern Web App in C(prophitt.me)

678 points by prophittcorey 14 days ago | 303 comments

Corey Prophitt's blog post on building and shipping marketyour.games, a commercial web product written in C and served via CGI in 2026.

Colored Petri Nets, LLMs, and distributed applications(blog.sao.dev)

45 points by stuartaxelowen 8 months ago | 5 comments

The Federated App Problem(plug-world.com)

100 points by plug_world 3 years ago | 146 comments

No one should use the AT&T syntax (2021)(outerproduct.net)

76 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 63 comments

You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings(eclecticlight.co)

449 points by zdw 6 months ago | 152 comments

Eclectic Light Company blog post by Howard Oakley explaining why macOS Privacy & Security settings cannot be relied upon to reflect actual app permissions.

Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working(mullvad.net)

973 points by eptcyka 3 years ago | 229 comments

Mullvad VPN blog post explaining that a bug in the macOS 14 Sonoma packet filter firewall breaks its app and can cause traffic leaks.

MacOS sometimes leaks traffic after system updates(mullvad.net)

344 points by dulvui 2 years ago | 172 comments

Mullvad blog post reporting that macOS can leak traffic outside the VPN tunnel after system updates because the firewall ignores rules until a reboot.

Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware(devblogs.microsoft.com)

833 points by mycall 3 years ago | 484 comments

Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog post arguing that overly aggressive uninstallers end up behaving like malware on Windows.

Do not download the app, use the website(idiallo.com)

1217 points by foxfired 1 year ago | 654 comments

Blog post by Ibrahim Diallo arguing that users should use company websites in the browser rather than downloading their mobile apps.

LLM-powered tools amplify developer capabilities rather than replacing them(matthewsinclair.com)

323 points by matthewsinclair 1 year ago | 214 comments

Blog post by Matthew Sinclair arguing that LLM-powered programming tools act like a mech suit amplifying developers rather than replacing them.