Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

79 points by HeliumHydride 10 months ago | 55 comments

How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

128 points by ayi 11 months ago | 73 comments

Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

331 points by luu 2 months ago | 123 comments

A 2003 Old New Thing post by Raymond Chen recounting how the Windows 95 box's anti-piracy hologram of a baby drew offended reactions despite seeming harmless.

DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded(devblogs.microsoft.com)

111 points by ibobev 4 months ago | 39 comments

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

245 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 57 comments

What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

48 points by supermatou 5 months ago | 13 comments

Things I learned while writing an x86 emulator (2013)(timdbg.com)

329 points by fanf2 2 years ago | 114 comments

Blog post by a former WinDbg developer describing odd x86/amd64 trivia learned while writing the CPU emulator for Microsoft's Time Travel Debugging.

Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features(xda-developers.com)

930 points by haunter 5 months ago | 571 comments

XDA Developers article explaining how Linux gaming performance is improving as Windows API behaviors are implemented as Linux kernel features.

Dirty Optimization Secrets (C for Playdate)(devforum.play.date)

66 points by ibobev 23 days ago | 7 comments

Playdate developer forum thread sharing advanced C optimization tricks learned while building a full-speed Game Boy emulator for the Playdate.

The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU(jia.je)

120 points by jiegec 1 month ago | 6 comments

A blog post investigating a hardware erratum on the Loongson LA664 CPU where an atomic instruction loses updates, causing an infinite loop while packaging normaliz for Debian.

I'm going back to writing code by hand(blog.k10s.dev)

890 points by dropbox_miner 5 months ago | 558 comments

A developer's devlog post explaining why they are returning to writing code by hand after experimenting with fully AI-driven vibe-coding of a project.

The browser's main thread is expensive(kciter.so)

408 points by kciter 1 month ago | 141 comments

A devlog post on kciter.so explaining why work on the browser's main thread is costly and how it affects web app responsiveness.