Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything(gist.github.com)

10 points by em-bee 1 year ago | 4 comments

LMDB: The first version of Redis, written in Tcl (2009)(gist.github.com)

180 points by avinassh 3 years ago | 61 comments

Operational PGP(gist.github.com)

31 points by gone35 1 year ago | 12 comments

“Don Knuth Plays with ChatGPT” but with ChatGPT-4(gist.github.com)

153 points by LifeIsBio 3 years ago | 74 comments

macOS Internals(gist.github.com)

698 points by JoelMcCracken 3 years ago | 112 comments

A GitHub Gist collecting links to John Siracusa's Mac OS X reviews, tracing macOS internals from the prerelease era to Swift.

Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them(gist.github.com)

513 points by jeffbee 1 year ago | 323 comments

A GitHub Gist explaining how rebuilding Ubuntu's jq package from the same source with different build options yields about 90% better performance.