Localization in .NET console and desktop apps(blog.axantum.com)

74 points by svantex 2 years ago | 28 comments

Original WWW proposal is a Word for Macintosh 4 file from 1990, can we open it?(blog.jgc.org)

447 points by jgrahamc 2 years ago | 188 comments

Blog post by John Graham-Cumming testing which modern software can open Tim Berners-Lee's original 1990 WWW proposal saved as a Word for Macintosh 4.0 file.

Why xor eax, eax?(xania.org)

518 points by hasheddan 10 months ago | 189 comments

Matt Godbolt's blog post explaining why compilers emit xor eax, eax to zero a register on x86 and why it is among the most executed instructions.

The Ken Thompson Hack(wiki.c2.com)

98 points by stephc_int13 2 years ago | 27 comments

No More Blue Fridays(brendangregg.com)

457 points by moreati 2 years ago | 254 comments

Brendan Gregg blog post arguing that eBPF-based security agents would prevent kernel crashes like the July 2024 CrowdStrike Windows outage.

Breaking Silos(blog.bracha.org)

41 points by tosh 2 years ago | 17 comments