Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z(ryanliptak.com)

476 points by LorenDB 11 months ago | 240 comments

Blog post explaining that Windows drive letters can be non A-Z characters, demonstrated by using subst to create a +:\ drive, and exploring the implications.

Knuth reward check(thomas-huehn.com)

217 points by Curiositry 16 days ago | 76 comments

Personal blog post recounting finding an error in Donald Knuth's book "Computer Modern Typefaces" and receiving his famous reward check twenty years ago.

PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator(picoide.com)

171 points by st_goliath 11 months ago | 41 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.

I hate GitHub Actions with passion(xlii.space)

435 points by xlii 9 months ago | 298 comments

A personal blog post ranting about why the author strongly dislikes GitHub Actions as a CI/CD tool.

NAND Error-correction Code(docs.kernel.org)

81 points by signa11 2 years ago | 39 comments